This is why this web site was made. There needs to be better treatment and diagnosis of epididymitis. For example, since the epididymitis holds part of the semen, it may be that something in the semen could confirm whether epididymitis exists with certainty or not. Something needs to be done to better diagnose and cure epididymitis. Antibiotics may have been a good idea, but they would have been a better idea if it had been determined exactly what they were being used to treat, exactly what germ.