Vasectomy. Gulp.
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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....
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k 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?!
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....
f
k 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?!
Hoofy said:
Is it of medical importance that your wife never conceives again?
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%.
The first time in 16 years we'd had sex without a Condom, I found it a bit painful. Still the wife lets me practise much more often, and it's fine now.
My Balls are a bit bigger than they were. (Full?)
The actual op, was okay, until the sadist, untapped my penis (which he'd taped upwards to keep out of the way). Yes he just ripped the masking tape straight off in one almighty swish. I swore at him. tt.
My Balls are a bit bigger than they were. (Full?)
The actual op, was okay, until the sadist, untapped my penis (which he'd taped upwards to keep out of the way). Yes he just ripped the masking tape straight off in one almighty swish. I swore at him. t
t. pilchardthecat said:
despite having been referred back for a repeat under a general anesthetic.
As I said earlier I had mine under general. I was quite surprised as everyone I knew in the UK had just had locals so I asked the doctor and a medical friend in the UK. The answers came back that it was easier and less risky with a general (apart from the risks always associated with the anaesthetic itself). The doctor can take as much time as he needs amd doesn't have to worry about the anaesthetic wearing off. Also the injection of local anaesthetic can be problematic - it's quite a delicate area to go poking needles around, some of the bruising and swelling reported is related to this rather than the operation itself. I had mine done around lunchtime, I went home in the evening (being driven by someone else, the anaesthetic can leave you a bit groggy). I took a couple of paracetemol before I went to bed, more by way of precaution than anything else and that was all I needed. Followed all the advice about supportive underwear and bags of peas but was frankly disappointed with the lack of swelling and bruising, I was really hoping to milk the sympathy.If you don't mind the issues around having a general anaesthetic then having read other peoples experiences here and elsewhere then I would say go for it. I was nervous like you but I would have done it years ago if I'd known that it was this straightforward.
Minemapper said:
They're messing with you, mostly.
No shaving required. Local anaesthetic, 1 small incision, 5 mins of fiddling about, and you're out. Slight discomfort for the rest of the day, but fine in the morning. No after effects, other than never worrying about unintended consequences again.
My experience tallies with this.No shaving required. Local anaesthetic, 1 small incision, 5 mins of fiddling about, and you're out. Slight discomfort for the rest of the day, but fine in the morning. No after effects, other than never worrying about unintended consequences again.
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.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.
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%.
Hoofy said:
My mum cannot have another baby due to a problematic heart (if she was to have gone through birth again there'd be a good chance we'd gain a sibling but lose a mother - not an issue now post-menopause!) so she just used contraception.
This must be just asking for all kinds of mum jokes but I will resist the temptation!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.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.
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%.
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 f
k 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 b
ks 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 risksilverous 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 againWould be so much easier if we could just take a bloody pill!
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.
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.
Edited by King Herald on Friday 29th November 17:25
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..... fBut 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.
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