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Varicocele Embolisation is very common in the world. This is much cheaper and easy to do. Always first choice where paid by Government funded system . Many have good experience and many have bad experience after this procedure. Please share your experience here. Thank you.
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filippos.g Gera23
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Hey! I'll just copy and paste the story from my post.
I had a Varicocele surgery (embolization) on my right side on the 26th of June. The first week was a bit uncomfortable coz of swelling and bruising. after one week the bruises went away. Then suddenly and after everything seemed to be completely fine i woke up one morning and i had TERRIBLE pain. Like horrible.
Then, I went back to work (not a heavy job thank god) but the pain didn't go away. i went to the doctor and we run some tests to check for infection of the Epidydimytis.
Everything turned to be fine (no infection). But the pain wouldn't go away. The doc said that it might take time and go back home and cool it with ice and hold it high.
My doctor went away for sunmer. So I visited like 5 more other doctors coz the pain was unbearable. They all said that anatomically I'm fine, my blood flow looks ok, and all the organs inside are intact (ultrasound and touching).
Week by week my swelling went away (it isn't coming back). BUT i am still experiencing a HIGH SENSITIVITY of my testicle. I touch it and it still hurts. i cannot sleep on my stomach, I cannot wear tight underwear or at least for the 3 first weeks now it is more bearable but still a lot of pain.
I am still in bed (for 6 weeks) applying ice, i cannot wear pants AT ALL and when i go out and walk a lot my testicle is getting tired easily and hurts again. Did i see improvement in general? YES. How long will it take me until this sensitivity go away?
Meanwhile, I AM 100 % positive that the Varicocele is back coz when i cough i can feel it stronger than ever. but lets say that i skip this and dont mind it because i can fix it with a new surgery.
My main concern is this sensitivity and pain. Has sb else experienced sth like that and when were you able to touch your Testicle again without feeling pain? Do you think it will go away? will i be able to wear my underwear and pants? All the Doctors i have visited don't have clear answers about it.
I am totally freaked out, super depressed and really don't know what to do. I just wanna know how much I still have to be doing all these things.
Update: the doctor gave me one more antibiotic (unacid), an antiepeleptic 2x daily and an opioid (tramadol). the opioid and antibiotic didn't work much but in general i saw improvements. the doctor now is convinced that the sclerosant material in the vein made the vein too thick and it irritated pain nerves. he said that he is really sure that the pain will go away slowly and the pain nerve will be normal again after the vein will get thinner time by time.
today he suggested to inject me with local anaesthetic in order to see if the pain will go away (and if indeed for hsow long it'll go away. i told him to give it another 2 weeks and I'll see him again and if the pain insists ill do it!
Overall... try to do the laparoscopical way. i really dont suggest embolization.