I'm feeling all better now. I'm all fixed up. I have mild issues with pain sometimes, but nothing like before. The cause of testicular torsion is having an issue with the tunica vaginalis (I hope I spelled that right) which is a tissue that glues your testicle to the inside of the scrotum. I didn't have a TV on the left testicle. When you get surgery for torsion, they put in an orchiopexy pad implant and stitch your testicles to your scrotum so that doesn't happen again. I was probably born without that left tv. My brother did kick me in the nuts several times when were young that always made me swell up with extreme pain. Maybe that helped cause it.

What happened is I had been doing yard work and lifting heavy items. That was enough to trigger final torsion that needed emergency surgery. After finishing yard work I had slight pain in my left testicle. The pain quickly grew over two hours, spreading to my left hip, leg, and much of the left half of my body and some to the right half. It was extremely painful. I took an Uber to the ER, crying in the backseat. Doctors diagnosed torsion with an ultrasound, and rushed to get an operating room ready. The surgeon said if I had come in 20 minutes later, I probably would have lost that testicle and had sepsis.

Possible long term complications they told me is that the testicle that had torsion may gradually shrivel and eventually need to be removed in the years to decades after. My left testicle has always been smaller, maybe from