My boyfriend has a softball sized hyrdocele. He has had difficulty keeping a job due to discomfort and sometimes pain from the weight of it. He has even had to bring a doctor's release to say it is okay on multiple occasions. It is so large that is tremendously obvious no matter what he wears. Because of the inability to keep a job, he has no insurance. He has been to the ER with the pain, but they say it is not an emergent condition. How large does it have to become before it is emergent and is there truly no complication to having it? I mean, if someone kicked him there, would it bust and if so, then what??? I am being serious.

my right side hydrocyle is very big, there are more than one ball and when i press it up balls goes into stomech side after sometime balls come back. what should i do plse suggest.

Had the operation on 6/18/2012. Left testicle was the size of a large grapefruit which continued to grow larger over the past 12 months. No real pain during this time but very uncomfortable. Finally got the courage to do something about it. Surgery was on a day basis in hospital, and only took half an hour. Next day very sore throat due to pipe down throat during surgery, lasted for three days. No pain and have not taken any painkillers since. It is now day ten and stiches have not dissolved as yet. Was a four inch incision with 10 stiches. Swelling has significantly reduced, sleeping on side with pillow between knees and back to work in another 4days. Overall not too bad however I am happy I took the full two weeks to recover. [age 63]

Hearing the complication and pain of surgery [jaboulay's procedure] Ive decided to drain the liquid with a needle. So i bought a 20 ml syringe and 20 gauge needle. As soon as i inserted the needle in the hydrocele sack and try to suck the liquid in the syringe, nothing happned. It feels like the piston of the syringe is very tight. I thought the liquid can be drained very easily in the syringe.