Ineligible: No, it doesn't seem to be in time with my breathing. If I hold my breath the movement continues, and coughing doesn't make anything different either.I had a hernia when I was very young, so I don't know if this would have anything to do with that. I don't even know how long this movement has been happening. Like I said, I just noticed it yesterday for the first time. Just throwing this out there... would masturbation have anything to do with this?
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Weird movement in the scrotum?
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Do you remember what the hernia looked like? Is one of your testicles a lot bigger than the other? I explained above my own situation, where I had a hernia fixed when I was younger. Before the hernia repair, it seemed like they moved up and down more, at least on one side. After the repair, they still moved, but not as much. It's possible that you just never noticed it before. It might only happen at certain times.
A hernia usually doesn't hurt, unless a loop of bowel gets stragulated--then it's a medical emergency. In any case, it's good to have a periodic check-up, so the doctor can check for things like hernias, as he would for anyone else. Sometimes they can come back, but with the techniques they use nowadays, it shouldn't happen (mine has lasted for a long time).
____________________________R> I'm sure you. . .
Dude, grow up.
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i get the same thing i got freaked out at first but after a while i just realized its normal
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What it looked like? I'm not quite certain I know what you mean. All I can say is that the scar I have from the surgery is above my penis and below my naval. I don't know if one testicle is significantly bigger than the other, but one hangs lower than the other does. Thanks again to you, SteveA, Radeckl, and everyone else for all your help so far. I really appreciate it a lot.
fairyteller101...how did you realize that it was normal? Did you talk to your doctor?
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In general one testicle will hang lower. If you have a hernia, stuff that shouldn't be there gets pushed into the scrotum, which can push the testicle down a lot.
I haven't looked at my scar in a long time. It's faded so much that you can hardly see it. It's a couple of inches above and an inch to the right of the testicle.
When you ask what "it" looks like, I'm not sure what you're referring to.
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It's normal for the scrotum to move somewhat quickly, moving yout testes with it. It is temperature regulation that causes it to move so much. The skin of the scrotum is very sensitive to temperature changes and the skin will tighten and loosen itself based on these temperature changes, bringing the testicles away from the body to keep them cooler when warm air comes across, and bringing them closer to the body when cold air comes across. The purpose is to keep the testicles at their optimal sperm producing temperature, which is a few degrees cooler than body temp. Try blowing cool air or dumping cold water on your scrotum, and watch how the scrotum moves.
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focus: But in a rythmic pattern when the room temperature isn't really changing?
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Try blowing cool air or dumping cold water on your scrotumAs was discussed earlier in this thread, that's the creamerastic reflex. It's the same thing that makes some (espicially, young) guy's testicle quicky retract if the top of the thigh is brushed.The few-seconds-long periodic cylcing is something else. My theory is that it's tied to the peristalsis of the intestines.
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Okay, not to make matters worse here, but what about varicoceles or varicose veins in the scrotum. There's another recent thread about this. The veins can move around and make the balls move around too. I might see a dr though if I were this guy just in case.
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There is no connection between the peristalsis of the intestines and the testicles or scrotum, so there's no way they could move together. The scrotum is responding to very slight changes in air temperature surrounding the skin. The scrotal skin is VERY sensitive to temperature change, down to a tenth of a degree Farenheit, and will adjust accordingly. So what you may not feel as a temperature change because it is slight, your scrotum does feel and adjusts the testes position to compensate. It can do this rather quickly. While it appears to be a rythmic movement, it really isn't - it simply a series of small quick adjustments to temperature in the air surrounding the scrotum. Keep in mind that our skin acts like a large radiator, cooling out bodies, and even the skin on the scrotum itself heats the air around it if there is no air movement, so in an environment with little to no air flow, the scrotum and body heat will heat the air around itself, causing the scrotum to loosen and the testes to drop for cooling, then after the scrotum gets too cool, it adjusts again, tightening and bringing the testicles closer to the body for warmth, then it gets too warm again, and it repeats the cycle, creating what looks like a ryhthmic pattern. Try sitting in a bathtub with your scrotum completely submerged in water, and see if it has the same rythmic movement. Your testes shouldn't move as much in the water, because water has much greater resistance to heat changes than air, and the temperature surrounding the scrotum will be much more stable.