Without the risk of being crude its been a week since my right testicular was removed and I keep having what I can only describe as phantom ball pain. It’s like my missing ball is still there and aching. Has anyone else experienced this? Will it stop?
don't worry about being crude fella , we are all in the same boat, and were just ordinary blokes, not maiden Aunts lol.
im 12 days post removal and i can still feel my removed nut, not all the time, but every now and again i get an ache that's exactly the same as if i had one and it was still there, im no nerve specialist, but i expect that a lot of the nerves that are there are still sending signals back to the brain, and the brain falsely interprets these.
i have a friend who lost the lower part of his right leg, even 10 year later he sometimes gets an overwhelming urge to scratch toes that aren't there.
the brains a funny thing.
i expect like most things, in time these sensations will reduce as your brain gets used to filtering out unimportant information.
3 years in for me - still get that too , though not as often- sometimes it feels like an ache or perhaps even less than that - more a sensation that its there and "not happy" -but it soon goes.
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