TLDR; Hydrocele surgery changes your testicles my base ring went up 2 whole sizes. Excited to be caged again.


I started my Chastity journey with my Keyholder and wife about a 2 years. We ordered a KINK3D Cobra cage and what I thought was the correct base ring.

 After a pierod of time my testicle would swell and the cage would get painful people told me "I had the wrong base ring, the wrong cage, I'm doing something wrong" being discouraged with chastity especially with how painful it had been and decided to stop caging, but the pain and swelling did not stop.

 I delt with this pain and swelling for months with zero chastity play involved it got to a point I went to the emergency room and then Urologist to find a solution for my issue. The ER was very unhelpful, also due to something within myself I did not mention chastity to either my Er doctor or the Urologist.

 Thankfully the Urologist had answers it was a *Hydrocele* a sac in my sack (lol) that fills with fluid like a cyst but not an infection just an anomaly they could place a drain as a temporary solution but it has a larger chance of coming back or surgery to remove the sac and clean up any remaining bits to promote healing and it not coming back. 

Nervously I agreed to the surgery. To get rid of the problem and not have it return. Now I searched everywhere on the internet about the healing process of this specific surgery and I could find very little information in terms of when you could start playing with chastity again or even doing light CBT there are PLENTY of resources for information about when you can jerk off when you can have sex when you can stop wearing supportive underwear but nothing in terms of your testicles and how they are healing.

So I am now offering you my healing experience and how my journey played out. Day of surgery pain 9/10 after the good painkillers from the surgery wore off ice is your friend, swelling will be large, just ice and rest. Days 2-5 pain 6/10 swelling still present. Days 5-12 pain 4/10 swelling is less. Days 12-18 pain 2/10 swelling pretty much gone was able to gently massage my penis and cum any jerking or bouncing of the testicle causes pain. From days 18 untill 38 not much pain just waiting for stitches and surgical glue to dissolve and stuff to heal back up fully. After the glue and a majority of the stitches washed away 

**I started playing with chastity 50ish days after my surgery.** The main thing I noticed was my testicle had changed and dramatically, the testicle with the Hydrocele had "shortened" by about an inch to an inch and a half this caused my base ring size to change. I was unaware of this information until I tried the base ring on and wear the cage for 10 hours at first everything felt alright albeit tightly I assumed this was due to me not wearing it for months and then the surgery everything had been swollen

 I was wrong the base ring and ball gap was too small causing my testicle and "cord" to be pulled tight against the base ring and cage head after the 10 hours I was feeling light headed and took the cage off when the cage came off the pain came in. This is when I was trying to research Hydroceles and chastity to see if anyone had any information I was left with very little information except that your testicles can "shrink" with this surgery and "you will adapt your lifestyle to this change"

I am thankful and lucky to have a KINK3D partner store near me and I was able to go in store for a in person sizing. My original base ring size was a #4 Curved I mistakenly thought I would only need to go up one size but with the ability to try them on and walk around for a bit in store I found out how wrong I was, my new base ring size was a #6 Curved with the increased ball gap with the larger ring size and it sweeping back slightly to hug the body allows my shorty ball to sit comfortably and so far I've been caged for 3 days without removal and I'm so happy to be part of the community again! 😄💖😅 So sorry for the long post I just want this information to be available to those who need it. 

Chastity with a Hydrocele, Update.