How ghastly is a vasectomy?
Discussion
Daveyh said:
ucb said:
There's a fairly high incidence of chronic(longterm) pain post-op for what is a short, simple procedure.
Urrrghh.. really?From the very superficial reading I have done, the incidence can be between 10-20% (1 in 5-10 cases) and the severity can be sufficient to warrant referral to a pain specialist (which inevitably IMO means that a pain-free life is not a likely outcome). Several colleagues of mine have suggested alternative contraception as being preferable for all, though with the drawback of reversibility.
Edited by ucb on Monday 19th May 17:08
A mate had a vasectomy a few months ago, he booked 3 days off work to relax, had the op in the morning and all went well, by mid afternoon he was back in work, no pain at all and all seems well so far.
The only thing he did is wear really tight pants.
Everyone is going to have a different experience but it's not all bad news.
The only thing he did is wear really tight pants.
Everyone is going to have a different experience but it's not all bad news.
It's fine. Rock up with shaved plums, change into hospital gown, avoid catching the eye of anyone else in the waiting room. Get shown in to a small operating room with an upside-down dentist's chair on it, so your hips are higher than your feet. Man comes in, positions bright lights onto your genital area, starts giving the sprouts a good rolling about. You make uneasy and stilted small talk, and try to ignore the attractive female nurse hovering in the background. He explains the procedure, then paints your bits with some kind of antiseptic that takes days to scrub off. Injection goes in, one into each tube, uncomfortable but not painful. Everything goes numb.
Doctor makes a small incision in the scrote, then uses a hook to pull the tube out into the fresh air. Small talk is drying up a bit by this time. He clamps the tube, cuts a section out of it (to stop the ends from finding each other and healing up) then cauterises the ends. Repeat with tube #2. Silence by now, really nothing left to say. He puts a soluble stitch in to close the hole, plaster over, job done.
Walk very gingerly into the waiting room, nurse explains after care - ice, rest, don't shower for two days, then make sure you have as many ejaculations as you possibly can for the next two weeks. You ask what the record is. Joke falls flat.
Go home (best to have someone pick you up), sit on sofa with back of frozen peas under chuds, watching TV and occasionally whining for cups of tea. Next morning, marvel at bruising that has changed your wrinkled family retainer into an avocado. Take some iboprufen to damp down dull ache. Repeat sofa/tv/peas/tea day. Take it easy on day 3.
The guys I know who had an issue did something stupid like riding a horse home from the operation. They felt fine on day 3 so went out running, that kind of thing.
Pay money, get the best service you can, treat it with respect and take it easy for three days afterwards. You'll be fine.
Doctor makes a small incision in the scrote, then uses a hook to pull the tube out into the fresh air. Small talk is drying up a bit by this time. He clamps the tube, cuts a section out of it (to stop the ends from finding each other and healing up) then cauterises the ends. Repeat with tube #2. Silence by now, really nothing left to say. He puts a soluble stitch in to close the hole, plaster over, job done.
Walk very gingerly into the waiting room, nurse explains after care - ice, rest, don't shower for two days, then make sure you have as many ejaculations as you possibly can for the next two weeks. You ask what the record is. Joke falls flat.
Go home (best to have someone pick you up), sit on sofa with back of frozen peas under chuds, watching TV and occasionally whining for cups of tea. Next morning, marvel at bruising that has changed your wrinkled family retainer into an avocado. Take some iboprufen to damp down dull ache. Repeat sofa/tv/peas/tea day. Take it easy on day 3.
The guys I know who had an issue did something stupid like riding a horse home from the operation. They felt fine on day 3 so went out running, that kind of thing.
Pay money, get the best service you can, treat it with respect and take it easy for three days afterwards. You'll be fine.
ajcj said:
It's fine. Rock up with shaved plums, change into hospital gown, avoid catching the eye of anyone else in the waiting room. Get shown in to a small operating room with an upside-down dentist's chair on it, so your hips are higher than your feet. Man comes in, positions bright lights onto your genital area, starts giving the sprouts a good rolling about. You make uneasy and stilted small talk, and try to ignore the attractive female nurse hovering in the background. He explains the procedure, then paints your bits with some kind of antiseptic that takes days to scrub off. Injection goes in, one into each tube, uncomfortable but not painful. Everything goes numb.
Doctor makes a small incision in the scrote, then uses a hook to pull the tube out into the fresh air. Small talk is drying up a bit by this time. He clamps the tube, cuts a section out of it (to stop the ends from finding each other and healing up) then cauterises the ends. Repeat with tube #2. Silence by now, really nothing left to say. He puts a soluble stitch in to close the hole, plaster over, job done.
Walk very gingerly into the waiting room, nurse explains after care - ice, rest, don't shower for two days, then make sure you have as many ejaculations as you possibly can for the next two weeks. You ask what the record is. Joke falls flat.
Go home (best to have someone pick you up), sit on sofa with back of frozen peas under chuds, watching TV and occasionally whining for cups of tea. Next morning, marvel at bruising that has changed your wrinkled family retainer into an avocado. Take some iboprufen to damp down dull ache. Repeat sofa/tv/peas/tea day. Take it easy on day 3.
The guys I know who had an issue did something stupid like riding a horse home from the operation. They felt fine on day 3 so went out running, that kind of thing.
Pay money, get the best service you can, treat it with respect and take it easy for three days afterwards. You'll be fine.
Simply reading this makes me feel proper ghastly.Doctor makes a small incision in the scrote, then uses a hook to pull the tube out into the fresh air. Small talk is drying up a bit by this time. He clamps the tube, cuts a section out of it (to stop the ends from finding each other and healing up) then cauterises the ends. Repeat with tube #2. Silence by now, really nothing left to say. He puts a soluble stitch in to close the hole, plaster over, job done.
Walk very gingerly into the waiting room, nurse explains after care - ice, rest, don't shower for two days, then make sure you have as many ejaculations as you possibly can for the next two weeks. You ask what the record is. Joke falls flat.
Go home (best to have someone pick you up), sit on sofa with back of frozen peas under chuds, watching TV and occasionally whining for cups of tea. Next morning, marvel at bruising that has changed your wrinkled family retainer into an avocado. Take some iboprufen to damp down dull ache. Repeat sofa/tv/peas/tea day. Take it easy on day 3.
The guys I know who had an issue did something stupid like riding a horse home from the operation. They felt fine on day 3 so went out running, that kind of thing.
Pay money, get the best service you can, treat it with respect and take it easy for three days afterwards. You'll be fine.
My Brother was working in Africa when he had it done. Paid a German Doc who claimed that he had a way of doing it gently and yep! he was right as rain afterwards with very little soreness.
Remember when Bobby Grant had it done in Brookside all those years ago. He walked around doubled over for two weeks acting as if he had been castrated with a rusty pen knife
Remember when Bobby Grant had it done in Brookside all those years ago. He walked around doubled over for two weeks acting as if he had been castrated with a rusty pen knife
I'm currently pondering it and when I started doing research, the chronic pain issue did come up.
I must admit to being concerned when figures of 1 in 5 suffering from this start being banded around. Sounds too high for something to be considered to be an acceptable risk.
Does anybody know what the options are if you do get unlucky? Would it be as 'simple' as having a reversal or is there any other options? (Plus would the NHS pay for the reversal if it was felt that was the answer)
I must admit to being concerned when figures of 1 in 5 suffering from this start being banded around. Sounds too high for something to be considered to be an acceptable risk.
Does anybody know what the options are if you do get unlucky? Would it be as 'simple' as having a reversal or is there any other options? (Plus would the NHS pay for the reversal if it was felt that was the answer)
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