Hi,
I am 25 year old male. I am having this problem for the last 12 weeks. It all started 3 months back when I felt slight discomfort in my left scrotum. After 2 such weeks it slightly increased when I was driving car for hours together .The pain level I would say was 2 in the scale of 10, 10 being the highest. And immediately after that I visited a emergency medical clinic. The doctor took a testicular ultrasound scan and said that there is nothing wrong with the testicles. The doctors ruled out any testicle abnormalities like torsion, cancer etc.
I visited a urologist after this and he again read the scan reports and did tests for hernia and also took a urine test. He ruled out urinary problems and also hernia. He suspected a muscle strain and prescribed me alleve for next 2 weeks. After this the discomfort had been intermittent for following 6 weeks. The symptoms did also change. In this period I started to feel the discomfort get into the left inner thigh. I would call these discomforts (rather than pain) pulling sensations. But I had these once in every 2 to 3 days.
I drove a car afterwards and the symptoms got pretty constant. Again I visited the urologist and he referred me to a sports medicine specialist. The Sports medicine specialist took X rays of my left abdomen and thigh and said that the X rays were fine. And looking at my symptoms told me it could be a muscle stain or a sports hernia. And gave me muscle relaxant medicine for the following two weeks. But as I didn't get relieved of these symptoms I had an MRI for any possible muscle pull and nothing showed up on the MRI scan. The doctor told that it could be sports hernia and would refer to some other doctor.
And now Whenever I do any work like walking or bending twisting for some time I start to feel the discomfort after few minutes and when I just relax by lying down or sit on a couch the discomfort just goes of in minutes and also warm and cold pack compressions in the groin region also helps me get rid of these discomfort quickly. Now I could feel the discomfort sometimes even in my perineum area. These are no swellings or visible changes in the area. Also the discomfort not always occur in all the three regions together - inner thigh, left scrotum and perineum area. Sometimes it happens in all the parts, some times in just one or two part. Its just random.
I haven't been involved in any regular sports of late for the last 5-6 months and I didn't have any injury that I could recollect which could have caused this. The long duration of this problem without any known exact reason so far is bothering me a lot. I am currently away from my home country and it still make me worry. I know the answers here are not a substitute for a qualified medical doctors diagnosis, but your answers could help me consider my further actions to diagnosis my problem and treat it.
Is this a sports henia or anything else is possible for these symptoms?
Can a person with no active sports activity get a sports hernia? But I do a lot of house hold work like cleaning, moving things around etc.
Is surgery the only remedy for this. Can this be cured using medication and may be physiotherapy am a student now and I am joining a company in another 2 months. Is it possible to get this resolved during this 2 months.
Please I would be really grateful if somebody can help me with this.
thanks,
suzie.