So, my son is 18 months old. Sometime between 1 year and now, the pediatrician said he had some kind of sac of fluid around one of his testes, it was totally normal, probably will resolve itself, etc. He shined a flashlight through them to show me what it looked like. I wasn't worried enough to remember the name he used for it.
Just recently, I was changing him and I was bothered by the way his scrotum looked. I gently felt around it and sure enough, I found THREE clearly separate ... lumps, for lack of a better term... in there. I think they were all the same size. I just kind of thought WTF? and figured it was probably some anatomical thing in there that I just didnt' know about, and that I'd keep my eye on it.
Today I thought to check them again to see if anything had changed, and I looked and I was even more alarmed. I felt around and to my left, there are two little marble-sized masses, the same size, right on top of each other but DEFINITELY SEPARATE. Well, on the right there's one BIG mass, bigger than the other two combined.
What the hell?
I've heard of this hydrocele thing - that seems like it must be what the pediatrician was talking about - but from what I understand, the fluid forms AROUND the testicle. Why would I feel THREE things in there, and THEN have one of them swell up? I'm pretty concerned about this now... should I be?
He didn't feel any pain at all when I was feeling around, and only after a few moments of poking did he kind of seem like "Hey, get outta there" (and even then didn't register more than casual annoyance), there's no discoloration. The only thing out of the ordinary I can detect is that he appears to have a cold coming on - sudden-onset runny nose, little cough and feeling a bit hot.
I was going to keep my eye on it for the rest of the weekend and if it gets any worse or seems to bother him I was going to call the pediatrician on Monday.
Ladies? Any experiences like this? Input?
Thanks.
Just recently, I was changing him and I was bothered by the way his scrotum looked. I gently felt around it and sure enough, I found THREE clearly separate ... lumps, for lack of a better term... in there. I think they were all the same size. I just kind of thought WTF? and figured it was probably some anatomical thing in there that I just didnt' know about, and that I'd keep my eye on it.
Today I thought to check them again to see if anything had changed, and I looked and I was even more alarmed. I felt around and to my left, there are two little marble-sized masses, the same size, right on top of each other but DEFINITELY SEPARATE. Well, on the right there's one BIG mass, bigger than the other two combined.
What the hell?
I've heard of this hydrocele thing - that seems like it must be what the pediatrician was talking about - but from what I understand, the fluid forms AROUND the testicle. Why would I feel THREE things in there, and THEN have one of them swell up? I'm pretty concerned about this now... should I be?
He didn't feel any pain at all when I was feeling around, and only after a few moments of poking did he kind of seem like "Hey, get outta there" (and even then didn't register more than casual annoyance), there's no discoloration. The only thing out of the ordinary I can detect is that he appears to have a cold coming on - sudden-onset runny nose, little cough and feeling a bit hot.
I was going to keep my eye on it for the rest of the weekend and if it gets any worse or seems to bother him I was going to call the pediatrician on Monday.
Ladies? Any experiences like this? Input?
Thanks.
.
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