vasectomy

1. Guest 6 February 2008 at 22:36PM
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   I am sorry to say that my experience has been fowl, the operation took 50 mins on the NHS and I think the whole experience was a shock. Before the operation I had a virtually perfect sick record. However, I was too uncomfortable to get back to work for the best part of two weeks. Not the 2 weeks web sites suggest. Its now more than 14 months since I had the surgery and I always feel full and tight in the tesicles. I have libido but too much lingering aching pain after sex puts me off . It is a dreadful hot cold pain aching pain that carries on for a day or two after orgasm and difficult to describe. My sex life down from twice a week to less than once a month. For me it took away the joy of sex. and life

   That warm feeling spreading from the groin on coming has gone. I find it very depressing because there seems to be no going back as more intervention appears not to cure these painful problems once started

   Maybe I have just been very unlucky but I suspect that I am one a substantial minority

   The trouble with medicene and outcomes is that vasectomy looks good on paper. I suspect there are a lot of men privately suffering variyng degrees of pain.

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2. Guest 25 February 2008 at 10:07AM

   I had a vasectomy 1976 and both my wife and I have enjoyed sex without the possibility of an unwanted pregnancy. In fact our sexual life has been much better than before the operation. All I can add is that you seek medical advise ASAP and remember the doctor that you see will understand the problems that you have.

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3. Guest 2 May 2008 at 21:51PM

   Doctors do not understand the cruel cut is the biggest mistake of my life

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4. PVP-ouch 23 April 2013 at 12:14PM

   Guest you are right...Dr's do not understand the devastating impact post vasectomy pain can have on not only the man's life but on the loving relationship the man is in.

   If Dr's truly cared about the patient then they would make the risks associated with a vasectomy explicitly clear and not couch it in terms that severely downplay the potential after effects.

   We were told no long term risks and that some men do experience slightly extended recovery times with a fair amount of discomfort....worded like that we proceeded.

   However if we had been told there is up to a 14% chance your sex life will be ruined along with never ending pain then we would not have proceeded. To be honest if we had been told there was a 1% chance of no sex life we would not have proceeded, but it is hard to make an informed decision when the NHS seek to severely downplay / downgrade and hide the truth about the potential effects of a vasectomy.

   One has to wonder why the NHS seem hell bent on saying this procedure is safe and simple when there is a huge risk to men's physical and emotional well being - I suspect they do so purely on the basis of saving money! A vasectomy prevents the NHS having a high birth control bill! False economy though when it comes to having to treat PVP.

   Numerous studies have asked not why so few get PVP but why so many others don't!

   A vasectomy is no different to playing Russian Roulette - the stakes being your wife and your life!

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