Vasectomy. Gulp.

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I've never been so utterly terrified in all my life.

And i was once chased through a jungle by people with guns.

Somebody please reassure me!

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i am not reassured

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Shaved my balls last night. Stayed up all night (all week tbh) unable to sleep due to blind terror.

Applied numbing cream and dressing this morning. Went in to the clinic.

The guy took one look at me sweating and shaking and refused to do it under local anesthetic on safety grounds, he thought i was going to faint....

fk me what a week. Call me a pussy, but now i honestly don't know if i can go through with it, despite having been referred back for a repeat under a general anesthetic.

Now i have no pubes.

But i do have Post traumatic Stress disorder.

The wife was uncharacteristically kind and understanding.

Condoms aren't so bad, right?!

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One statistic was particularly worrying - 5% to 15% of people experience long term chronic pain (7 months +)

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Hoofy said:

Is it of medical importance that your wife never conceives again?

Not of medical importance, we just dont want any more kids.... we're both 40-ish and my youngest is 4, and will probably be financially dependent to some extent when we are in our 60s and thinking about retirement.

But having read a lot of stuff recently about Post Vasectomy Chronic Pain (which can be debilitating, untreatable, and last for years) i was really struggling with that 5-15%.

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Kermit power said:

slinky said:

I can be of no help, I'll say "pull yourself together man"..
You're demonising this, it really isn't as bad as you think it is. It smarts a bit and that's it.

Just get on with it and you'll be fine.

In your experience. Not in mine.

Remember getting smacked in the nuts (I'm assuming it happened to everyone at least onece!) at school? Multiply that by 10, then keep it at maximum intensity for 12 hours, before letting it gradually tail off, but never (at least not within 5 years and counting) let it go away completely, and that pretty much gives you my experience of a vasectomy.

I guess I'm in the OP's 5-15%.

I strongly resent the suggestion that i'm "demonising" anything. I'm merely recounting my personal experience, of what was probably the most stressful week of my life. Stressful because despite all the bravado it is actually a very big decision, and it's not without risk

Of course the 85-95% of people who've had it done, and who didnt have complications, and dont have long term pain or discomfort are going to say how trivial it all is, and man the fk up, etc. But something between 1 in 7 and 1 in 20 people almost certainly do not consider it trivial.

I realise that having achy bks isn't like having cancer, but when you go for a CT scan you are asked to think very hard about the 1 in 20000 risk

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silverous said:

If it is this stressful isn't the answer to go down an alternative route rather than put yourself through it?

That is the conclusion i have arrived at, at least until they come back and say i can have it under a general.... whereupon the should I/shouldn't I process will probably start again
Would be so much easier if we could just take a bloody pill!

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King Herald said:

As a teenager my biggest fear used to be about getting a boner while some nurse examined me, at school, at the docs etc.

But then I went to see the pox doctor, some 30 years ago, about VD a nurse did the swab, and my fears turned to embarrassment as my mutton dagger shrivelled to the size of an acorn and tried to hide inside my belly.

I can relate to that, having had an endoscope shoved down the end of my cock a couple of years ago so they could take a look at my bladder from the inside..... fk me that hurt

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PoleDriver said:

I don't see what all the fuss is about!

Would you still say that if you were one of the 1 in 10 people who had chronic long term pain?

I very much doubt it.

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PoleDriver said:

pilchardthecat said:

PoleDriver said:

I don't see what all the fuss is about!

Would you still say that if you were one of the 1 in 10 people who had chronic long term pain?

I very much doubt it.

If you are that scared of life's statistics:-
1) Do you smoke?
2) Do you drink alcohol?
3) Do you eat food containing fat?
4) Do you eat food containing Carbs?
5) Do you ride a bike?
6) Do you drive a car?
7) Do you use public transport?
8 Do you walk anywhere outside of the house?

If you do, make sure you never read the statistics for the likelihood of coming to harm, you'll develop agoraphobia and not go out!
(And definitely don't look at the statistics for accidents in the home!)

Car crash, liver failure, heart attack, trip over and fall on the floor under a pan of boiling water...... all trivial compared to long term pain in the testicles. The TESTICLES!!!!!!!

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PoleDriver said:

As a slightly serious aside... Have you really discussed this with you OH and made sure that you are 200% certain this is right for you?
I had mine done about 25 years ago because (the then) Mrs PoleDriver didn't want any more children after the 3 we had.
Move on 6 years and we split up and got divorced, she went on to meet someone else and they now have 3 more children!
I have lost 2 girlfriends because they wanted children and doctors refused to reverse the OP due to how long it had been done and my age.

IMHO THIS is what you should be worrying about rather than the very small likelihood of having a sore bk for a while!

I dont want any more kids, with anyone! That's the easy bit.

If it was a 1 in 10000 risk of chronic pain i might have a different view, but 1 in 10 scared the hell out of me - not good odds. And a proportion of these are worse than "a sore bk for a while" - it can be debilitating http://www.painaftervasectomy.org/

Oh, and just because you're ok for the first few years, doesn't mean you're in the clear, it can develop later on

I admit i probably spent far too much time reading internet horror stories.

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uk_vette said:

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Divorce is all so easy, and when the new young wife comes along, wanting a kiddie, than what?

vette

I would neglect to mention it, and get loads of sex "trying"