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Epididymitis permanent cure duration

Hi,
I have been treated with Epididymitis a week before thru antibiotics. I was provided medication for just 5 days. Even though the pain started to reduce in 5 days, i was having dull intermittent pain after my medication is over. Hence i continued taking the same medicines on same dosage as prescribed. I couldn't meet the urologist who prescribed the medicines, as i am out of country. Now the pain is almost gone on the testicles, but a slight irritation near the groin. This irritation in the groin is very less frequent also.

Now my questions are
- Should i continue the medicine for few more days, as i saw on the web that the epididymitis will need medication for 2 weeks?
- If i stop this medication now, will i get pain again? Bcoz i am taking antiinflamatory along with pain killer. Assuming the pain reduced due to this medicine, if i stop the medicines will it induce pain again in the scrotum?
- How to confirm if the disease is cured completely?
- Will there be any recurrence of the disease?
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Hi ElijahMinaj... How are u feeling now.. better? i got the pain back after 10 days when i stopped the medication... the doctor did a ultrasound and said the inflammation is still there, but not much as it was earlier and said that this could be because the infection was not cured properly earlier... now he has suggested with another medicine curam sandoz today... its frustrating with the pain again..
btw how did u manage to control the pain?
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I am going through the same thing, take it all the way through to make sure it is eradicated it might dissapear if you are lucky but I took doxy and an antinflammatory and my pain is still here :/ if you feel like your balls are regular and you can masterbate you are probably cured
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