Prolonged edging caused swelling of veins above testicles

I didn't know this, but after reading up online, apparently prolonged edging without ejaculation can cause epididymitis as the edging may cause the sperm to backflow. This seems to be what happened to me.

I wanted to avoid ejaculating for a few days in preparation for a date with my girlfriend, but instead of avoiding masturbation altogether, I simply edged and didn't ejaculate.

I did this during before bed two or three times. Today, after doing it again, I went to take a shower and noticed a slight discomfort in my right testicle. I touched it and noticed some kind of inflamation or lump in the tubes connecting to my right testicle.

The description fits varicocele better in the sense that it feels like the veins have swollen, like a small knot or amalgamation of engrossed veins, but I think it makes sense that it might be epididymitis considering the extreme edging. 

Now, it doesn't really hurt. I just get a slightly uncomfortable sensation if I touch it too much, like it's sore, or sensitive. But otherwise it doesn't hurt on its own.

But what I'd like to know is if ejaculating now would do any harm, considering that it's the act of not ejaculating that caused this. Because I can't help but feel that by keeping it in I'm making it even worse, but I wouldn't want to ejaculate and get some sort of intense pain.

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