Dead testicle coz of tortion

[negative intention]

I had this tortion of one testicle and it wasnt treated on time,its been 2 months now.there r tow main questions i want to ask the are as follows:
1.As one of my testicle is dead and its been 2 months now but i havent got it removed yet,my fr said that its fine but i have to get removed as soon atleast as it starts producing anti bodies or something.As i m a student and cant get off from uni so i wanna ask that how much rest will i have to do???and how much more time i can keep it the it is ??
2.I had this test for fertility and it was negative as my one testicle is dead,i wanna ask that is there any treatment for it???or its like that i cant have my own kids ever????
pleaze answere these questions as soon as u can,
thanks.

[quepues]

I am 39 years old now but when I was about 13 or 14 I too had torsion of a testicle.  Our family did not have insurance at the time so my mother took me to a quack.  He misdiagnosed what I had.  I believe he said I had a hernia or an infection.  I forget.  He told me to where a jock strap and take some antibiotics and that was that.  I was in extreme pain that I do remember.
My testicle swelled up to the size of a baseball. and slowly but surely shrank into nothing. At the time I had no idea of what had happened.  I did not find this out until a few years ago when I went for a physical.  There the doctor patiently described that I had tortion of my testicle.
All these years and I had never heard of such a thing.
I went to see a urologist this past month.  He offered to do some type of surgery to my good testicle so that it would not be doomed by the same demise my other testicle went thru.  He said since it happened to one that it was likely to happen to the other.  Well I told him it had happend 26 years ago.  He said since I have been without problems for 26 years then I probably didn't need the surgery.  He did not even mention anything about the bad testicle whether or not I had some residual testicle left or not and if I did whether it was dangerous to leave it.  So I take it as being that it is allright.
By the way I happen to have fathered 5 kids.  

You should be all right.

[marioc1981]

i'm sorry quepues, i didn't understand did you leave the dead testicle in? i also suffered a testicle torsion in my right testicle and sufferd the same loss when i went to a uroligist he said that i suffered testicluar atrophy and there was nothin you can do. i asked him if i need surgery to remove the dead testicle but he asured me i don't . i did some reaserch and saw that dead cells can cause Gangrene i now worried if this guy misdiagnost.

[Rowena Santos, MD]

Hi,

In testicular torsion,  the spermatic cord that provides the blood supply to a testicle is twisted, cutting off the blood supply of the testicle.  Torsion can cause shrinkage and tissue death, and may require surgical removal of the testicles if not treated promptly. In some cases, damage or loss of a testicle affects a man's ability to father children. There is also an increased chance of having torsion on the other testicle. It is best to discuss this with your doctor for further evaluation and management.

[jim401]

i was misdiagnosed, they said i had eppididimitus...
It was torsion..
Left testiical then died...
I was sent to a specialist a year later and they said the current vein of thinking was to leave it in....
That was 7 years ago ... left testical is very small
I had a child 5 years ago