It's been more than 10 weeks since my successful end-to-end urethroplasty to remove a stricture (less than 1 cm). Flow is still excellent but pain in the testicles and scrotum, as well as swelling between the perineum and urethra remains. I saw my doctor (who assisted with the surgery) 2 weeks ago about the pain and he said it was nut uncommon and could actually take up to a year for things to heal up.
I wanted to get another opinion about the duration of this scrotal and testicular pain and its duration. Is it really possible that this could last a year?
The scrotal pain feels like a surface pain - a burning and occasionally "pins-and-needles" feeling. The testicle pain is mainly confined to the left testicle, and the pain seems to be on the back side of it (where the epiditymis is?), but is more of an aching than a burning.
I have no temperature/fever. Urination is excellent. Sexual function seems mainly normal, though ejaculation seems to produce less fluid, and it seems to come out after orgasm, rather than during.
One other - possibly unrelated to this pain - is that I have an inguinal hernia. Apparently this happened 6 months prior to the surgery and went undiagnosed, as I thought it (the bulge) was just related to my suprapubic catheter. I never had scrotal/testicle pain until after the surgery though.
I'd be grateful for any thoughts on this. Thanks!
Ken