Hydroceles and undescended testicles.

[Writerwannabe83]

Can I ask people please of their experiences with their sons being diagnosed with a hydrocele or an undescended testicle?

When it was detected and what treatment was needed? And how quickly was the treatment given?

I'm asking as I'm currently in the process of deciding whether to put a complaint in about my own experience and so I'm interested how mine compares to others.

Thank you.

"[you] can treat UDT at three (I used to leave a bit longer if unilateral, until child could understand about an operation and I could never condone early surgery because "he will not remember")"

@dratsea Why could you never condone it? I was 3.5 when I had a unilateral orchidopexy at QEH nearly 30 years ago, and the experience scarred me mentally. My therapist encouraged me to write it up at undescendedtesticles.wordpress.com/my-story-orchidopexy/

Early surgery because "he will not remember" - or later, when the child could understand about an operation - seems way preferable to me.

My DS had an undescended testicle due to an inguinal hernia. The hernia was repaired and the testicle put in place at age 9months. This was late 2010. I was told it would never have descended on its own. And fixing it at that age would give him almost the same chance of fertility had it not been undescended.

Dratsea your post makes me a little nervous....