The most obvious and trivial explanation is that the varicocele is causing an increase in temperature, which in turn is causing the sweating
Seems like an IR kitchen thermometer pointed at the skin of the area during sweaty vs non-sweaty moments could test that hypothesis pretty trivially?
You imply that it happens only while sitting. If it ever doesn’t happen while sitting, what’s different about the times it doesn’t happen. If it ever does happen while standing or lying, what’s different about the times when it does?
What’s the minimum time you have to stand up to get it to stop or not start for the full 15mins when you sit back down again? If simply standing, moving, and sitting back down is sufficient, a timer set for every ~14 minutes to remind you to stand up with minimal interruption to your work could theoretically be the simplest possible intervention.
Have you actually told a doctor what you’re telling us, specifically that you’re experiencing hyper-localized sweating to a low percentage of your body’s surface, and only in one specific position? Because framed like that, it starts smelling like some kind of weird neurological or endocrine malfunction, and the local vascular symptoms start seeming more like effects from a shared cause than a potential cause themselves.
Has imaging verified that your brain looks normal since this problem started? My emergency medical training biases me toward worrying about a brain injury, stroke, or tumor contributing to sudden-onset abnormal sweating.
Seems like an IR kitchen thermometer pointed at the skin of the area during sweaty vs non-sweaty moments could test that hypothesis pretty trivially?
You imply that it happens only while sitting. If it ever doesn’t happen while sitting, what’s different about the times it doesn’t happen. If it ever does happen while standing or lying, what’s different about the times when it does?
What’s the minimum time you have to stand up to get it to stop or not start for the full 15mins when you sit back down again? If simply standing, moving, and sitting back down is sufficient, a timer set for every ~14 minutes to remind you to stand up with minimal interruption to your work could theoretically be the simplest possible intervention.
Have you actually told a doctor what you’re telling us, specifically that you’re experiencing hyper-localized sweating to a low percentage of your body’s surface, and only in one specific position? Because framed like that, it starts smelling like some kind of weird neurological or endocrine malfunction, and the local vascular symptoms start seeming more like effects from a shared cause than a potential cause themselves.
Has imaging verified that your brain looks normal since this problem started? My emergency medical training biases me toward worrying about a brain injury, stroke, or tumor contributing to sudden-onset abnormal sweating.