VASECTOMY PROBLEMS (worried)

I've also been on pain meds prescription/otc & though things are getting better, its way over the time frame that I have heard of from friends. I figure that I'm an extremely slow healer??????????

I had mine done 35 years ago. As a self employed TV service technician I needed to get back to work. The guy who did my antenna work had it done one morning and he was back on the roofs that afternoon. Another tech I had worked with came back to work the next day after his so I didn't think this was going to be a big deal. It didn't work out like I expected but the whole thing was kind of comical.

I took a pill he had given me before leaving for our family doctor's office. I couldn't tell that it did anything.

Back then needles weren't as sharp as they are now and I felt it on both sides. He cut open the right side and although I couldn't see what he was doing it felt like he pulled the tube out and was cutting it like you do with a pocket knife making a loop out of a rope and sawing through it. His knife was more like a DULL pocket knife and I thought about offering to go out to my truck to get a pair of wire cutters to loan him. When he got to the left side the scalpel hurt and I told him about it so he gave me another shot. Same dull knife cutting procedure on that side.

I went home and went to bed using ice packs to try to ease the pain of my now swollen and black and blue balls. My scrotum got to be about the size of a soft ball and it hurt like H3ll to stand up and walking was torture but it was only about 6 steps to the bathroom, thankfully.

So for several days I was laying in bed naked with my legs spread wide so as to not squeeze the black and blue grapefruit between them. Along came the steady procession of visitors, mostly my wife's friends and all females, who came to sympathize with HER over MY pain. Of course she brought them in to see me I think they were all masochists who just wanted to look at a pair of hurting testicles. For a woman who locks the bathroom door when I'm the only other person in the house, she certainly didn't share that shyness about my body. First was our 18 year old new tenant who stood at the foot of the bed peering over my swollen tea bag for half an hour talking to me. Then several of her church friends, sans husbands. Then a couple of teenage girls who baby sat for us. The best was her 14 year old sister who said she was going to be a nurse so she wanted to inspect things up close, and my wife said go right ahead. She did a thorough hands on inspection while to my surprise, my wife left the room. I'll give her this, she WAS gentle.

It was about 2 weeks until I made my first service call and it happened to be at the doctor's nurse's home. As I was struggling to stand up from behind her TV I asked her how long the pain was going to continue. She had no satisfactory answer.

I just figured my body didn't react well to being cut by a scalpel compared to other people.

FYI FOR THOSE THINKING OF A VASECTOMY..........my story....continues.....

Day 27 now, testicales seem to both be fine for the most part. I visited the Dr & he said I can go back to any activity I want. I've been a bit more active & now my groin aches constantly, though a continuous cough probably does not help. I cannot jog or run yet without feeling the "sqeezing" on my left nut. I can walk fine though 99% of the time. If given the opportunity to do this again, I would still walk out at the last minute even if the doc had equipment in had & my sack in the other, NO DOUBT IN MY MIND. I would not & do not recommend this to anyone, though everyone is different. One doctor (urologist) told me that HALF of the guys are fine in 7 days, the other half, well, it takes longer................ I'm hopefull for a FULL recovery, but who knows how I'll be feeling in a month? One guy I personally spoke with said it was 6 months before he was 100%. I hope I'm a slow healer. Everyone is different & I do seem to be getting a tiny bit better everyday.

THIS IS AN ELECTIVE PROCEDURE FOR MOST, NOT DUE TO A HEALTH ISSUE!!!!! **I** WOULD NOT DO THIS AGAIN!!! Most people are fine having it done, but I hope I'm not one of the unlucky, it would NOT be worth it to go through life always feeling like this, or not being able to run let alone jog if needed w/o feeling pain/sqeezing/pulling.

AND MORE....

Day 29 post op Vasectomy: My right nut is fine, my left nut is sensitive, I've got a mass about a third the size of a nut it seems to me, veins I've been told. I would NOT recommend a vasectomy to anyone, though MOST people are fine with it, having no ill side effects after a week or two. "If it aint broke, dont fix it!" I will live by this quote for the rest of my life, for both health & materialistic items. I have learned my lesson. I ran everyother day, a few steps into a jog gives a "pulling" sensation. How will I keep up with my daughter, I have very little sex drive now (used to have a HUGE sex drive). It could be worse, but a sore nut is a sore nut. I believe this will definately affect my quality of life & what I want to do in life, though it is 4 weeks after the vasectomy, not 4 years??????????

This Vasectomy Story, It's my story, not yours, but if anyone would like more detailed info to make an informed decision, post on this or send me a personal message on here & I WILL reply with any info you would like to know. Notifications/ updates of this posting are automatically sent to my personal email, so even if I do not check this on a regular basis, my regular email will notify me & I'll get back to you. Though I'm sure most vasectomies go well, mine does not happen to one of the many lucky ones, maybe you'll be unlucky too, but at least you can be properly informed : (

Just so you won't get discouraged. Mine didn't heal quickly either but it did heal and things were fine afterwards. My sex drive was unaffected and it made things much easier at home because my wife was able to get off birth control which was screwing up her body. The only lingering effect was the funny feeling caused by the sperm not getting out but that went away too.

Day 30 post vasectomy. My regular doctor said not to worry the pain is probably residual from an infection. I feel better after hearing it from him, rather than the one who did the vasectomy. Walking is fine 99% of the time now, I rode my bike with a bike trailer with my daughter in it yesterday. The gravel I went over was fine, a little pot hole made me think twice though. If I was told there is a 1 in 100 chance it may take a month to heal, up front, that would have made my last month so much more bareable. Things seem to be getting back to normal, not 100% quite yet, but getting there. Someone told me that at one point I will look back feeling fine & laugh about this. Hopefully I will be able to look back feeling 100% at some point, but I will never laugh about this time in my life, NEVER. TIGHTER fitting breifs is the way to go!!!

Day 36 post vasectomy. Things seem to be getting back to almost 100%. I still feel an aching pain (non testicle related) in the groin area were the knot is tied off, like it's trying to get up into my abdomen sometimes, but it passes. No running/jogging quite yet, but walking is 100% now. If a the urologist said, 1 in 100 or 1 in 200 or something like that will take a month to heal, I would have felt so much better for the past month. Spoke to another guy, he said he was doing yard work 2 days later.

68 days after the vasectomy & things are pretty normal now. If I make a very sudden, jolting like movement I feel my nuts, a bit more than before, but nothing extremely painful or worrisome. The pulling sensation in my lower abdomen has subsided & I no longer feel that. During sex I sometimes feel one nut "pulling," but that goes away once noticed seeing has how I've got other things on my mind at that point. I can pretty much run & do sprints ok now. I think things will be back to 100% soon. I may look back & be be very glad that I had this done, however, I will NEVER look back & laugh about it, ONE week my ass!!!!

 

If anyone reads this & is thinking about a vasectomy, understand that things will probably be fine within a week, from what I've personnaly heard, then again, it may take several weeks for a full recovery. My paranoia killed my sex drive at first, but now my sex drive has made more than a full recovery.

So now I guess we have proof that there are at least two of us who didn't get back to normal in a week or less.

Considering my body's reaction to that minor surgical invasion I used to worry about what would happen if I needed some major surgery. Twenty years later I had a 6x bypass and that went quite well. I was released from the hospital a day early and was back to work within a month. Funny thing, my penis and balls ended up all black from this surgery too but they didn't swell up. I don't know if it was bruising from the catheter insertion or if it was something they painted them with as an antiseptic.

Earlier this year I was reminded of just how quickly I recovered from the bypass surgery when we had an April Fool's Day major snow storm. The TV weatherman recounted the last time we had one on April first was in 1996. I had the bypass operation on March 15 1996 and was outside putting the snow plow on my Jeep for that storm. I remembered doing it with my chest still hurting but I didn't remember just how soon after the surgery it was.

A couple months ago I came across the repair slip for the first job I did after that surgery. It was exactly a month afterwards. I remembered that one because it was one of the heaviest TV I had to work on. It was a 36 inch Zenith sitting on a shag carpet. I had to move it away from the wall to replace the module I ordered for it the day I had the heart attack, then get it back in place against the wall. Moving it out wasn't bad because I could brace myself against the wall to shove it with my feet but I had to try to grip the carpet with my fingers while laying on my back to shove it back against the wall and that put a lot of strain on my chest.

But years later, when you're all healed, you CAN look back and laugh at the funny parts.

Everything seems to be back at 100%, some two full months later. I tell the girlfriend, looking back now, it was a good idea, but I will NEVER look back & laugh about it. Even if the doctors said there is a 1 in 500 chance of things taking several weeks to get back to normal, it would have made those two months so much more bearable knowing that I was the unlucky one, instead of them telling me there should be no pain. 3-7 days is a bit different from my 60-70 days....glad the worring is over now.

Hi,

I found you post and wanted to reach out. I had a vasectomy 29 days ago and am nowhere close to what I was before the procedure. I'm deeply depressed as I'm /was a highly active person with a family and still feel very tender down there and in fact any jiggling gives a lot of discomfort. Hoping to find more stories like yours as they make be feel a bit better.

I wanted to see if things were still 100% OK. I am going on 3 months and am at about 95%. Hoping I can get back to 100%. I think mine may be nerve related though.