Re: HCG and Retractile Testes

[Guest guest]

I don't think our balls are supposed to be hiding all the time!

We know they're supposed to be out so they're cool.

I don't know if HCG will make them go lower, but I did read a Medline

article that implied giving newborns with undescended testicles LH

(luteinizing hormone) will make their balls descend. Which makes me

wonder, since I had retractile testis all my life (but it became

painful when they shrank on T and started going up the inguinal

canal), maybe the low level of LH I know I had was enough to make my

testes descend, but not all the way down as nature intended. So

retractile testis was the result.

Maybe there is a correlation between retractile testis and secondary

hypogonadism?

I will say that I would have the orchiopexy again if I needed to

because I feel that much better!

[Guest guest]

Serendipityquest,

Maybe a little something from our gay culture that might be helpful

for retractile nuts.

A boyfriend gave me my first cockring (CR) when I was

36...immediately after putting CR on, I knew that it was for me...I'm

soon to be 64 and have worn a CR ever since then 80% of time.

Wearing my CR to bed each night makes my nocturnal erections (NEs)

much harder. IMO our NEs are our most important erections.

Here's a site to give you an idea of variety of CRs...

http://www.mbpro.com/cbt/cbtstraps.html Simple metal and

neoprene " O " rings can be bought at most hardward stores for ~$1.00.

Personally, I feel neoprene CRs difficult to get on compared with

metal CRs. For beginners, neoprene might be good until you find your

right size....if it's too tight, you can always cut off with

scissors...not that easy with a metal CR.

My favorite CR is a leather wrapped 2 " inside diameter (ID), a 1

3/4 " is too small and a 2 " too large...wrapping in leather reduces

size for a perfect fit.

Retracting of my nuts pre cockrings was never that problematic...but

wearing CR eliminated even that infrequent occurrences.

Just my experiences....

OR eon

> Question here to those of you in the know...I thought HCG was

> supposed to help with undescended testes, but does that also

> translate to helping with retractile testes? The HCG doses I've

been

> writing about haven't seemed to make a difference keeping things

> hanging shall we say.

>

> I'd like to add that I don't know that if they were hanging it

would

> be anymore comfortable, they're kind of nice tucked out of the

way.

> They usually come out if it is safe, like lying in bed or sitting

at

> my desk. But the mere hit of activity sends them running

upstream.

>

> The downside I see is low testosterone and not looking so good in

the

> buff, otherwise they're not so bad.

>

> Anyone else have a thought?