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Once in my life, 20 years ago, I had left-sided epididymitis. As the report from many years ago somehow got lost, I'm posting it again now.

The interstitial connective tissue of the epididymis and testicles reacts to a loss or fear of loss conflict. In other words, the fear of losing or having lost someone important. As the content of the conflict belongs to the area of self-esteem conflicts, there is also the nuance of not being able to save or help the person.

Before the onset of symptoms, there were exactly two very stressful events that fitted exactly into this category and which resolved at around the time of symptom begin:

1) Firstly, in March 2005, our dog at the time, who I grew up with and who was a wonderful family member for me, died. As I am right-handed, it tends to affect the left side when it comes to pets.

2) Secondly, my mother had been diagnosed with cancer in the previous years and her life was in acute danger, so I was afraid of losing her. Here too, of course, the left side would be assigned.

What were the possible conflict resolutions?

1) At the end of 2005, our new dog came into the family (an abused, completely frightened stray from Greece). She growled at me most of the time when I saw her for about three quarters of a year because she was terrified of everyone.
In September 2006, I visited my parents again. There the dog was happy to see me for the first time and from then on our relationship was harmonious! This could have been the solution to the conflict of losing our previous dog.

2) At around the same time, it was clear that my mother had finally overcome the cancer issue and was healthy/out of danger again. This issue could also have been resolved that weekend.

Conflict-resolved phase:
On the Monday after this weekend, the pain started and the testicle was swollen and hurt even
without touching it. As I was only vaguely aware of the 5BN at this point (and thought it only referred to "cancer"), I hadn't yet understood the connections and so I went to the doctor. He diagnosed epididymitis, which caused severe symptoms for about 2 weeks and then quickly got better.