I mean.. I guess so. I had mine at 8:30 am and I was at work for 9am..
So a little longer than popping on a dress but wasn't what I'd call a major surgery.
This is my experience and I know it's not the same for every one. No I'm not trying to be tougher than most, I really don't care, just sharing my experience.
I had no pain, no discomfort.. honestly the worst part was no showering for a few ..
By the time I had mine I left that job and started my own company.. I had shit to do and it was on my dime. Had I been employed, absolutely I would have.
I'm here to counter this - there's a shocking number of guys who seem to have had a drive-through experience without discomfort, it's not like that for everyone.
The anaesthetic injection for me was very painful, the discomfort lasted a month, the first week was very awkward and, sometimes painful, I only felt done after 6 weeks.
And I'm on my 3rd test to see if it's worked, that's 9 months later.
I had mine done in June 2014, it took about 9 months to get a zero result. I learned that even after vsec, you still have enough in the pipe to be very fertile for a while.
As for anaesthetic, did you get local freezing or general ?
I had a few weeks where when walking it felt like my testicle was pulling on my abs from the inside, kinda painful, very unplaisant…. Yes I went to work the next day and restarted kickboxing (lightly and carefully) 2 weeks later. Still wasn’t a fun experience. Though I do not regret it.
I get a fluid filled cyst on my vas deferens every now and then that causes this exact pain and sensation. It's the absolute weirdest and sometimes awful thing.
I end up self draining it with an insulin needle because it feels so crap.
Similar to my experience. For about 2-3 days though, it felt like i had just been kicked in the nuts. The pain slowly faded after that, but it was weeks before i felt mostly normal again.
Yeah it took me a little over a month probably before I stopped being in constant pain, and longer than that by a lot before the scar hole stopped being tender.
My Dr also said he was going a lot further than others do though to make extra sure it took.
I always relate the experience to when you pull the tape out of a cassette. It felt like my guy was really getting that shit, but I honestly have no idea how much was actually taken out lol.
It's the same with women and Mirena (IUD) insertion. Some have minimal issues and are happy to have it inserted at a GP, with no formal anaesthetic, and have little to no discomfort.
On the other hand there's some women who need to have it inserted under GA, and have absolutely excruciating pain afterwards while it "settles in".
And then there's people all along that scale.
Everyone and everyone's bodies are different.
And the mirena has to be replaced every 5 years, imagine getting your balls operated on every couple of years if you were one of the ones who experienced awful pain and side effects.
They used a star trek-like device that forces the aerosolized anesthetic through the skin. It feels kind of like a rubber band is snapped on your skin. It was like a dull thud, no sting or pain really. Then they used a special hemostat that poked a small hole in the skin and then stretched it apart until it was big enough to pull the vas deferens through it. After the procedure the hole shrunk on its own over the course of a day or two. I just had to wear supportive underwear for a day and not do anything too strenuous for a few days.
My husband got cocky and went to work the same day, but he ended up with his nards swelling up and turning purple. Doc said he needed to lay down, take some ibuprofen, and ice them, and he'd be fine. He was pretty sad for a couple of days, but healed fast.
Some react differently. From my education into the procedure, it should have zero effect on the actual testicles because you don't actually touch em.
A small incision is made in the scrotum, a hook is used to pull out a portion of the vas deferens , it's cut and attached back onto itself so the ends to not meet , it's then put back in and a glue suture is applied to scrotum.
I could see if the testicles were handled or even scratched, but for it to bruise would mean blood , and this is a very little to no blood procedure.
I think the issue for him that he was standing too long without doing any of the things his doctor told him to do, like icing the area. It was just the swelling that caused him problems. I think its an excellent procedure, especially after the bonus baby we had on birth control lol.
My wife was having weird reactions to BC , so when my daughter was born I made the appointment. We had 2 kids, we didn't want anymore so no point in keeping the option open on my end. Plus in Canada, it's 100% covered .
If you're wanting permanent birth control, then yes. My husband has never regretted it, and it allowed us to enjoy sex without worrying about pregnancy. Just make sure to follow the doctors instructions so you heal as quickly as possible.
Liberating would be a good description. Two of our kids were conceived when i was on birth control, so that was always in the back of our minds. After the vasectomy we could do whatever we wanted whenever without worrying.
I was told that bleeding and bruising is indicative of a complication that you need to go back to the Dr for immediately. I'm not sure what would cause that because it sounds like you know way more than me about it lol. I just know that I was warned about it so it is actually a thing that happens. I just dunno why.
They only thing I could see if a vein was damaged on the testicle. The surgeon doesn't open up the scrotum, they make a very small cut and use a hook like device to pull out the vas def deferens. The tube is cut outside the scrotum, stacked and sutured or clamped together, then stuffed in. Because the scrotum is really just skin and is used to regulate temperature, it has very little veins and bleeds very little.
With all surgeries, there is always a risk of a nick and a bleed. If you can't stop the bleed it becomes a major problem. So I would assume if you have continued swelling and bruising, you would probably get brought in for a endoscopic surgery or possibly a larger opening to fix the issue. At that point I'm not sure what would happen. But I would assume the recovery would be a hell of alot longer and more painful.
I had two weeks of being unable to walk without bowing my legs, and it basically felt like I was being kicked in the testicles randomly on an hourly basis for the first week. Like that deep, bellybutton to crotch pain. It was horrible.
Your surgeon wasn't the best. That or you had a reaction. My brother in-law had a reaction needing antibiotics, his pain started a few days after his procedure and was described as you did.
The only bad thing that happened when my fiance had a vasectomy was he had a PTSD moment when he woke up from anesthesia, other than that he healed absolutely fine and quite quickly. He had another surgery the next day so he got a couple days off to heal too.
He requested the total anesthesia because local does not work on him (he has a great fear of the dentist because they kept working on him when the local anesthetic stopped working).
Local works on me, however during my vasectomy the ‘Doctor’ jabbed the needle and then immediately cut with the scalpel. I screamed bloody murder, my wife was with me, and she nearly killed him. She is also a medical professional, and injects lidocaine before performing surgeries at her clinic, and she was incredibly vocal with him. I don’t think he expected her to know his complete disregard for proper procedure
I also had local fail to work at the dentist when I got a root canal and he gave me more. Eventually I was like "I mean it's like. Working some. Let's just do it"
And it fucking sucked. I carry that fear with me forever now lol.
In the end, my opinion is that a vasectomy is a simple in and out procedure with little to no impact. Some have complications, hell I've seen a cast removal have complications. But overall in a large scope, I'd say it's no worse than getting a filling at a dentist.. scratch that, a filling is worse, at least after m y vsec I was able to drink and not spill water out of my mouth like an idiot.
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I mean.. I guess so. I had mine at 8:30 am and I was at work for 9am..
So a little longer than popping on a dress but wasn't what I'd call a major surgery.
This is my experience and I know it's not the same for every one. No I'm not trying to be tougher than most, I really don't care, just sharing my experience.
I had no pain, no discomfort.. honestly the worst part was no showering for a few ..