Hydrocele - Fluid around your nuts

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Hi all.
I had reason to go to the quack a few weeks ago.
I eas feeling achy down there.
After a brief exam, quack yells be I have Hydrocele around my left nut, and it should be drained.
Its like a swollen nut sack.

So a few weeks later I get an appointment at a local hospital.

The specialist confirms, hydrocele.
Then into next door for an ultrasound.

Following week, it is confirmed, and a date set to come in to have nut sack drained.

Arrives in good time, gets showed to his room, gets jeans down, on the bed, and undies down to knees.

Then his young female assistant comes in.

He gets this massive needle, 50mm long minimum, 2 mm diameter.

Stabs the sack and extrudes 420 ml.
Took about 5 mins totally.

Took 4 and a half syringes to empty.
What a difference.
Nervously though when I seen the needle.

Anyone else had this drained?

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Blerry hell.
Your brave.
Poking a massive needle into your own nut sack.

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eventually said:

I had the swelling you describe, I had to have an operation to cut it out.

It's not pleasant, full general anesthetic, and quite a few weeks on light duties as the scar heals, mine was 3-4 inches long, right down the middle of my scrotum.

Within a few weeks my swelling returned on a much larger scale, it required another operation and similar period of recovery.

The surgeon said that mine was an unusual case.

This time it's gone, hopefully for good - this all took place in 2021.

OMG
Thats super scary

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So had mine drained last Friday.
How long before the swelling was back to pre-drained size?
I guess if it does fill up again, which seems quite common, then thats the time to go more upmarket with an op, rather than a simple syringe lance type job.

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YankeePorker said:

Register1 said:

So had mine drained last Friday.
How long before the swelling was back to pre-drained size?
I guess if it does fill up again, which seems quite common, then thats the time to go more upmarket with an op, rather than a simple syringe lance type job.

No doubt that varies from person to person, just depends on the magnitude of the leak down from the abdominal cavity. In my case it takes about 4 months for the swelling to become such that I have to deal with it again - starts to get a bit uncomfortable on long walks (i.e. golf!).

If/when it swells up again it’s definitely worth talking to your doc about the op and then making an informed decision whether to put up with periodic draining or not. I’ve been a chicken about having my nutsack cut open, partly due to rather poor success rate stats for the op.

I did read about another potential remedy which involved injecting a chemical into the scrotum that could seal the leak, but that didn’t fill me with confidence either. Sounds a bit like radweld and I’ve always thought that was a bad idea too!

Thanks.
Agree on the Radweld.

So this fluid drains down from the stomach, or the outside of the stomach.?