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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate BPH / July 2008TURP followup
Just reporting on my TURP results: It's been five weeks and some things seem to be doing fine except the stream isn't up to full flow. Still up three times every night to pee small quantities. Recently have noticed a lumpy mass by left testicle and a little ache (pain) in same area. By phone, the Uro. mentioned hydrosol(?) as a possible cause, what ever that is (The nurse relayed info) He prescribed a very expensive antibiotic for seven days suggesting a possible infection. Not doing the pills. Just can't figure how an infection could have started after five weeks from procedure, and in the scrotum at that. Anyone have a similar problem? As I look into this, it seems that the term is Hydrocele testis which is an accumulation of clear fluid in the tunica vaginalis sac of the testicle. Apparently it is more or less harmless unless it becomes quite large in which case it must be drained surgically. Anyone with a similar problem? I wonder if the fluid will self absorb and cease to be a problem. > Just reporting on my TURP results: It's been five weeks and some things > seem to be doing fine except the stream isn't up to full flow. Still up [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > can't figure how an infection could have started after five weeks from > procedure, and in the scrotum at that. Anyone have a similar problem? > As I look into this, it seems that the term is Hydrocele testis which is an > accumulation of clear fluid in the tunica vaginalis sac of the testicle. > Apparently it is more or less harmless unless it becomes quite large in > which case it must be drained surgically. Anyone with a similar problem? I > wonder if the fluid will self absorb and cease to be a problem. Likely not (absorb) drain not recommended. Take out the whole sac (use unknown) when it gets too big As I look into this, it seems that the term is Hydrocele testis which is an accumulation of clear fluid in the tunica vaginalis sac of the testicle. Apparently it is more or less harmless unless it becomes quite large in which case it must be drained surgically. Anyone with a similar problem? I wonder if the fluid will self absorb and cease to be a problem. ===> hi van - as a patient will multiple hydrocels on both sides for over 10 years now, i was told that i had two choices. 1. let them grow until they bothered me 2. have them surgically removed. but was told that there is no assurances that i wouldn't get more hydrocels at a later time. unfortunately, i also have multiple cysts on both sides as well. in my studies, they say that it is usually the left side that a hydrocel will develop on and they have no reason as to why that side. hope this information helps. ~ curtis knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional "Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so." http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc Thanks for the info, Curtis. I'm not really sure that I have Hydrocele, that was via phone diagnosis thru the Dr.'s nurse. Am on Levaquin antibiotics, which hit the news today for tendon damage. Need to be examined by the Uro again. Will keep posting. Van > As I look into this, it seems that the term is Hydrocele testis which is > an accumulation of clear fluid in the tunica vaginalis sac of the [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so." > http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc Thanks for the info, Curtis. I'm not really sure that I have Hydrocele, that was via phone diagnosis thru the Dr.'s nurse. Am on Levaquin antibiotics, which hit the news today for tendon damage. Need to be examined by the Uro again. Will keep posting. Van ===> there's two things that i can think of right off hand that will get you an answer. of course, one is the scrotal ultra-sound. that is what i've had each year for the past 4 years. keeping track of how much they've grown vs time. i know that i'm going to have to do something in the future. it's interesting to see how the cysts differ from the hydrocels when show up on the ultra-sound. the cysts are round in shape. my uro lets me sit next to him as he goes over the different screens and i can ask him questions about what i'm looking at. the other thing that i can think of, and you can do at home and it's cheap. get a very strong light and shine it from the back side of the scrotum and you will be to see the outlines inside the sac. if the area that you think that you have a hydrocel shows no sign of any darkness, then, you will know that it is a hydrocel, because being a water tumor, the light will pass right through it. this is one of the tests that that they use to check for hydrocels on children. hope this helps, ~ curtis knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional "Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so." http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc |
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