That which has been seen/Vasectomy Snip-all

I also did the scalpel-free micro procedure. For me, the worst part was after I healed. For the first six months or so, it was simultaneously pleasurable and painful to nut. More or less felt ejaculating and getting kicked in the nads simultaneously. If you've ever passed or had a kidney stone removed, or other procedure where the doc went the wrong way through your man plumbing, it was a similarly bi-polar experience as urinating afterword.

In the days before the micro procedure, I had a buddy who had one done by our military urologist in Japan. He woke up several hours after getting home in excruciating pain and pulled back the covers to find his scrotum the size of a pomelo grapefruit. When he got to the ER, they cut open his stitches and a pint or two of blood splattered all over the floor. The best part of when he would tell that story is when he arrived in the ER, he had to wait his turn in the waiting room with his wife and some 80-year old retired lady. The waiting room was quite small, so the chairs his wife and I had to sit in were directly across from the where the lady was seated. He said she spent their time "together" quite openly gawking at the insane bulge in his sweatpants.

Good times!

T-Prime wrote:
Jarpy wrote:

You guys are champions. For a lot of couples, getting a vasectomy means that the female partner gets to take a break from years of constant vigilance and ingestion of powerful hormones. Go boys!

Trying to convince a friend's husband with this same train of thought. A big reason I got snipped was because my wife's body never took well to the pill and its hormones. On top of that, 9 months of pregnancy (which was preceded by a sad and devastating miscarriage) took a toll on her physically and emotionally (She's fine now!)

If you're serious, really serious about your relationship with your partner, I think it's a no-brainer to have it done if you don't want any (additional) children. A 30 minute procedure and a few weeks of discomfort and recovery barely have any standing against pregnancy and hormones and all of that. I'm very pro-vasectomy.

30 minutes? What kinda quacks you seeing?

Mine took 7 minutes, from me dropping trou and lying down to me standing up and walking out of the room. My wife was pissed because her coffee (from the gourmet coffee shop across the street) wasn't cool enough for her to drink yet.

mudbunny wrote:

30 minutes? What kinda quacks you seeing?

Mine took 7 minutes, from me dropping trou and lying down to me standing up and walking out of the room. My wife was pissed because her coffee (from the gourmet coffee shop across the street) wasn't cool enough for her to drink yet.

I think I was in the room for almost 30 minutes, but that included waiting, him describing the procedure and asking/answering questions, and all of 5-7 minutes for the deed.

vypre wrote:
mudbunny wrote:

30 minutes? What kinda quacks you seeing?

Mine took 7 minutes, from me dropping trou and lying down to me standing up and walking out of the room. My wife was pissed because her coffee (from the gourmet coffee shop across the street) wasn't cool enough for her to drink yet.

I think I was in the room for almost 30 minutes, but that included waiting, him describing the procedure and asking/answering questions, and all of 5-7 minutes for the deed.

We did the Q&A session before hand, which included me stepping out of the room and him asking my wife if she also approved of me getting snipped, which I thought was an interesting change of pace from what I had heard of in other areas.

Was probably under 10 minutes per "side" for me. Felt a darn-site longer as 10 minutes of having your knackers in a vice is no fun.

All that said, with minor discomfort for a brief period afterwards, I have no regrets. Well worth doing.

Weirdly though, I think it changed the shape of my nuts.

Mine was about 30 min, but fully 20 of that was me and the doctor talking about how awesome witcher 3 was.

SallyNasty wrote:

Mine was about 30 min, but fully 20 of that was me and the doctor talking about how awesome witcher 3 was.

Who is your doctor? I think I may need a second vasectomy.

I'm probably going to jump on this bandwagon.

How do you even go about finding a reputable doctor for this?

SallyNasty wrote:

Mine was about 30 min, but fully 20 of that was me and the doctor talking about how awesome witcher 3 was.

Lester_King wrote:

I'm probably going to jump on this bandwagon.

How do you even go about finding a reputable doctor for this?

Apparently you start hanging out on Witcher 3 Gamefaqs sites and asking who knows how to perform vasectomies.

Lester_King wrote:

I'm probably going to jump on this bandwagon.

How do you even go about finding a reputable doctor for this?

Assuming you have insurance, they often now have find a doc sites that help with this.

Find your local urology practice. They should be able to do it.

I asked my PCP at my last annual checkup. He recommended me to the specialist who performed his vasectomy.

I don't think I could've received a better recommendation than that!

Lester_King wrote:

I'm probably going to jump on this bandwagon.

How do you even go about finding a reputable doctor for this?

Asked my family doctor for a referral to a urologist.

I just did a Google search. They had me at "no needles".

DSGamer wrote:

I know so many dudes who when the time came forced their wife to get her tubes tied instead. It's insane to me given how much more invasive that procedure is.

Wow. Yeah, there's no comparison in terms of severity of the procedures and the risks involved. Vasectomy is an opportunity to repay a little bit of the burden that has always been placed on women for, like, ever. Dudes should not waste it.

Jarpy wrote:
DSGamer wrote:

I know so many dudes who when the time came forced their wife to get her tubes tied instead. It's insane to me given how much more invasive that procedure is.

Wow. Yeah, there's no comparison in terms of severity of the procedures and the risks involved. Vasectomy is an opportunity to repay a little bit of the burden that has always been placed on women for, like, ever. Dudes should not waste it.

That was one of the big considerations for me as well.

Me - 15 minutes (including time for a cold drink afterwards while the receptionist made sure I wasn't slipping into shock).

My wife - Major inpatient surgery.

And that's not even counting the risk for complications due to the complexities of the surgeries.

I got it done early this year. Simple and highly recommended. 10/10 would do it every year if required but, bonus... it's not!

Not required, though you do get a nice dose of that sweet, sweet sympathy. So...

mudbunny wrote:
Jarpy wrote:
DSGamer wrote:

I know so many dudes who when the time came forced their wife to get her tubes tied instead. It's insane to me given how much more invasive that procedure is.

Wow. Yeah, there's no comparison in terms of severity of the procedures and the risks involved. Vasectomy is an opportunity to repay a little bit of the burden that has always been placed on women for, like, ever. Dudes should not waste it.

That was one of the big considerations for me as well.

Me - 15 minutes (including time for a cold drink afterwards while the receptionist made sure I wasn't slipping into shock).

My wife - Major inpatient surgery.

And that's not even counting the risk for complications due to the complexities of the surgeries.

Seriously. The only time when I've heard it was relatively might as well have mom do it was when a friend had a c-section for their second and last and it was done at the same time.
Otherwise, not even a discussion.

I’ve literally known men who made that choice. Not many. You’re correct that usually parents decide in advance and get it done during a C-section, but I at least knew a couple men that said “no thanks” and forced their SO to get elective surgery instead.

It blew my mind, the absolute disregard required to watch your wife go through childbirth multiple times and then tell her you weren’t up to getting snipped.

To be fair, though, my wife’s family is really religious, so a couple of the examples I’m thinking of could be some weird twisted logic where they wanted “insurance” so their wife couldn’t cheat, but the men could move on in case they wanted more kids later. Patriarchies believe in weird things.

I'm still recovering from mine a week later. I'm one of the 5% or so who has a negative experience. In my case, the negative experience was my entire scrotum and groin filling with blood for several days. I'm told I came very close to losing a testicle.

I'm still a little uncertain as to how much of this is my tendency to ignore aches and pains until they're unbearable, and how much of this was poor warning with vague thresholds for calling the clinic back.

That's truly horrid, kazooka. I'm so sorry. Something went seriously wrong there and it's not your fault.

How common is Post-vasectomy pain syndrom

The airtight reference know as wikipedia seems to say as high as 14-15%?

Ask your surgeon, Iridium. Their personal record is probably more important than statistics. Mine had done the procedure often during his career, and only seen one case of that - and it came from another surgeon's work...

Iridium884 wrote:

How common is Post-vasectomy pain syndrom

The airtight reference know as wikipedia seems to say as high as 14-15%?

Personally, I occasionally felt like I'd been kicked in the jimmy a couple times in the months after, but not in the 14 years since. I've had the occasional epididymitis without pain, that made me think I had a lump, but thankfully it is just some inflammation around the clamps.

Iridium884 wrote:

How common is Post-vasectomy pain syndrom

The airtight reference know as wikipedia seems to say as high as 14-15%?

Ejaculations were slightly uncomfortable for about 6 months. Was about the same feeling and intensity as you have about 10 minutes after getting kicked in the nads.

Jarpy wrote:

Not required, though you do get a nice dose of that sweet, sweet sympathy. So...

Is that a given? Because I mentioned to my wife that one of the up sides is that I'd get to sit and play video games for a few days with frozen peas on my crotch. She gave me The Look, and said "Oh, you think so, huh? I didn't get to do that after giving birth."

Do you need to go in to see your PCP for a referral about this (on an HMO), or can you do that over the phone?

No Chaz, you can sit and play video games with frozen peas on your crotch whenever you want, no referral needed.

And thank God for that...! I don't know what my Tuesday nights would look like without a little relaxing crotch-pea action.

I mean, sure, but usually I have to wait until my wife goes to bed for that. She thinks it's weird.