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Testicle Infection (Epididymitis) (cont.)

Next Steps

Follow-up

Follow up with your health care provider to ensure that the antibiotics are working.  

  • If you are not responding to antibiotics, you may need an ultrasound (ordered by the doctor or urologist, who is a specialist in genital conditions). This is an imaging procedure to check your genital area.

  • Make sure your condition doesn't progress to become orchitis, an infection of the tube that carries semen out of 1 or both testicles. This is called epididymo-orchitis. Orchitis can result from the spread of bacteria through the blood from other locations in your body.

  • A testicular tumor may be present. An ultrasound or blood test might be needed.



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