User:Mr. Ibrahem/Testicular pain

Testicular pain, also known as scrotal pain, is when one or both testicles or scrotum hurts. Testicular pain may be of sudden onset or of long duration. Often swelling is also present. Long term pain is associated with depression, chronic prostatitis, infertility, and drug misuse.

Causes of sudden onset include injury, epididymitis, testicular torsion, orchitis, varicocele, inguinal hernia, kidney stones, iliac artery aneurysm, testicular cancer, and Fournier gangrene. Causes of chronic pain may include spermatocele, varicocele, post-vasectomy pain syndrome, vasculitis, interstitial cystitis, osteitis pubis, post hernia surgery nerve entrapment, side effect of amiodarone, and chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Diagnosis may be supported by ultrasound, urine tests, and blood tests. A CT scan of the abdomen may be useful in certain cases.

Pain management is typically given with definitive treatment depending on the underlying cause. Complaints related to the genital and urinary tract make up between 0.5% and 2.5% of emergency visits. Long term pain effects about 100,000 people in the United States.