 [ Symptoms ] one of my testices has always been larger but recently it has grown much larger and hurts dull pain so i have always had a larger testicle the right one and that has never been an issue but over the past 2 months it has grown far larger roughly double the original size i am going in for tests in about a week so my real question is that what else besides testiclar cancer coud be causeing this trying to stay possitive and hoping its nothing that serious also the pain has come and gone in the past but for no more than a day in the past but the last two weeks it has hurt fairly constantly [ Disease ] myopathy simply means “something wrong with a muscle” or more often multiple muscles myopathy is a very general term that can be applied to almost any condition affecting muscles some examples of myopathies include muscle inflammation caused by cholesterol lowering drugs called statins cardiomyopathy or poor function of the heart muscle genetic conditions resulting in severe birth defects affecting muscles autoimmune conditions affecting muscles like dermatomyositis there are many more conditions in the category of myopathy which vary widely in their causes treatments and prognosis all forms of myopathy can cause muscle weakness