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Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, explains the possible cause of pain in men's scrotum, saying that it's a condition called testicular torsion.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/ipuBO   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00For the whole month we're going to focus on various testicular condition and see how's that's going to affect your sex life or not

00:08From the very beginning we're going to talk about a condition called testicular torsion

00:19In fact testicular torsion is a congenital condition

00:23It's probably because the actual testicle and its suspensory

00:29Spermatic cord, it's a bit too long and so it's like a bell clapper

00:34Situation when it's too long it occasionally get twisted and the twist itself will

00:40Stop any blood flow to the testicle and cause an emergency situation called testicular torsion

00:48Testicular torsion tends to happen to late teenager and early adulthood

00:53So we're talking about between 16 to about 28

00:57So for this group of men perhaps they started having their sexual debut or started having practices such as masturbation

01:05They will have a guilt conscience to see whether those practices

01:09Excessive amount of that is resulting in testicular torsion. In fact, the answer is no

01:15There is no association with sexual activity at all by far

01:20The most common way of presentation actually is when somebody is sitting down doing nothing

01:26Spontaneously the testicle get twisted or sometimes in a sporting field such as playing rugby, football and suddenly

01:34Excessive amount of pain will warrant a player go to the sidewalk and the coach usually will worry about testicular torsion

01:42If a condition like this happen, don't panic

01:46The worst thing will do is that you actually get someone else to untwist it for you

01:51Because remember there's a 50-50% chance that you might twist it in the right direction

01:56That might save you or 50% of chance you twist it in the wrong direction and that will kill the testicle itself

02:03For most people the pain is so intense that they will go to the hospital

02:08Once they're in hospital, the doctors will make the diagnosis clinically and do an operation called orchidopexy

02:15Basically, it's untwist the testicle and fix the testicle at the same time so that it won't get twisted again

02:23however

02:24Luckily for many men when they turn up to accident emergency the testicle itself untwist itself and with many many years to come

02:32That intermittent torsion kind of disappeared

02:36Worryingly is that if the torsion continue to happen if it happens more than six hours

02:42Then the chances of survival of this testicle is significantly reduced if it goes on for more than 24 hours

02:49There's practically no chance and that testicle needs to be removed and you have one less ball to deal with for the rest of your life

02:58For the following week. We're going to talk about how

03:02varicocele, i.e. the varicose vein of the testicle is going to affect someone's sex life

03:09Generally, we know it affects the reproductive health, but will it stop you from enjoying your sexual experience?

03:16You stay tuned for next week's putting Dr. G on the spot

EP221: ‘Twisted’ fate of manhood | PUTTING DR G ON THE SPOT

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