Ok, maybe this has happened to someone else besides me.
I ride/race about 100-300 miles per week. Last weekend I raced Saturday and Sunday rode in the hills. On Sunday I was not feeling comfortable in the saddle but I was not feeling pain. It felt as though my left gonad was between my thigh and the saddle. (I don't think that is possible while wearing bibs.) No big deal I figured, racing and riding hard is not always comfortable.
I took two rest days and planned a hard ride on Wednesday. I got on the bike, rode across the street, and felt an instant sharp pain between my legs that traveled out to my scrotum (left side only). The terrible sharp pain repeated when my foot passed the bottom of the pedal stroke (5-7 o'clock position) almost every pedal stroke. Standing I was ok. Moving very far back or forward on the saddle decreased the frequency of the sharp, stinging sensation.
I went to the Doctor. Hernia was negative. All tests negative. Gonads are fine, not sore, no lumps, no bruises. They gave me Celebrex.
What did I do? It feels like the ligaments/tendons that run up the inside of my thigh are rubbing/rolling over a nerve that shoots some serious pain into the left gonadal.
The bike I've been on for the past month has the saddle about 1 cm higher than my winter training bike. Handlebar drop is about 5 cm lower than winter training bike. Both have the nose slightly downward. Same pedals on both. I've ridden about 2000 miles since January.
Comments? Ideas on what I may have done to myself?
Riding is impossible now.
I ride/race about 100-300 miles per week. Last weekend I raced Saturday and Sunday rode in the hills. On Sunday I was not feeling comfortable in the saddle but I was not feeling pain. It felt as though my left gonad was between my thigh and the saddle. (I don't think that is possible while wearing bibs.) No big deal I figured, racing and riding hard is not always comfortable.
I took two rest days and planned a hard ride on Wednesday. I got on the bike, rode across the street, and felt an instant sharp pain between my legs that traveled out to my scrotum (left side only). The terrible sharp pain repeated when my foot passed the bottom of the pedal stroke (5-7 o'clock position) almost every pedal stroke. Standing I was ok. Moving very far back or forward on the saddle decreased the frequency of the sharp, stinging sensation.
I went to the Doctor. Hernia was negative. All tests negative. Gonads are fine, not sore, no lumps, no bruises. They gave me Celebrex.
What did I do? It feels like the ligaments/tendons that run up the inside of my thigh are rubbing/rolling over a nerve that shoots some serious pain into the left gonadal.
The bike I've been on for the past month has the saddle about 1 cm higher than my winter training bike. Handlebar drop is about 5 cm lower than winter training bike. Both have the nose slightly downward. Same pedals on both. I've ridden about 2000 miles since January.
Comments? Ideas on what I may have done to myself?
Riding is impossible now.