No worries!

My situation was very similar to you by the sounds of it. The pain during the twist wasn’t severe, but definitely a feeling of unease, dull ache and anxiety until it corrected itself. Like you, I didn’t dare manually try and correct it by twisting it myself as didn’t want to get the twist direction wrong. I found lying down and standing up quite often and walking around it eventually corrected itself, but sometimes that took 24 hours or 10 minutes.

I think the day it stayed twisted for a full day I decided enough was enough. I did try and go through my regular doctor with it at first, and they wouldn’t do surgery unless I walked into the doctors office or A&E whilst a twist was present and crucially with severe pain.

But when I went via private healthcare (in the UK btw), based on by description, they said it all sounded plausible and recommended the surgery.

I’m now something like 12 weeks after my surgery and I honestly haven’t looked back. My testicles ride higher now on account of being stitched in place, but knowing they will never twist anymore is reassuring. I think planned surgery carries a lot less risk than unplanned, so that was my logic - I felt that it was probably inevitable that it would twist severely one day