I've searched the forum for a specific thread about this but I couldn't find anything.
Anyway, since I started lifting weights and doing squats, I started feeling pain in my left testicle and sometimes I could feel a "bag of worms" in it.
Got checked out by a doctor recently and he said it is probably a varicocele ("when veins become enlarged inside your scrotum") and told me to get an ultrasound just to be sure it is not caused by cancer.
Given the odds of having testicular cancer in my age is 0.5% (which is a bit.. high) and the fact that I have a family history of testicular cancer, I'm working with the worst-case scenario of actually having it.
I know the prognostics for testicular cancer is quite good, but I still want to know if any of you guys had any experience with this, how was the treatment, overall costs, etc.
I was surprised that I didn't find a specific thread for this subject here, as it seems to affect quite a few men.
Anyway, since I started lifting weights and doing squats, I started feeling pain in my left testicle and sometimes I could feel a "bag of worms" in it.
Got checked out by a doctor recently and he said it is probably a varicocele ("when veins become enlarged inside your scrotum") and told me to get an ultrasound just to be sure it is not caused by cancer.
Given the odds of having testicular cancer in my age is 0.5% (which is a bit.. high) and the fact that I have a family history of testicular cancer, I'm working with the worst-case scenario of actually having it.
I know the prognostics for testicular cancer is quite good, but I still want to know if any of you guys had any experience with this, how was the treatment, overall costs, etc.
I was surprised that I didn't find a specific thread for this subject here, as it seems to affect quite a few men.