Post vasectomy pain after 2 months

I waited two years in pain while the NHS p*ssed about with appointments, scans etc. and then suggested cutting more of me away. 

I had not signed up for that!

had a private reversal and although in pain for a few months the pain went away. Now all I have to show for the mistake of a vasectomy is a slight scar about an inch long down the seem line.

for me the only reason for a reversal was to stop the pain.. I don't want more children and never bothered going back for the test to see if I can .. just use condoms again.

sort of getting fed up with hearing more cases where the down sides were definitely underplayed. Was this because the clinic got paid for performing the procedure in the first place?

i would suspect that the docs will tell you to wait a while before doing anything.  I was told to smear volterol on my balls while in pain. For me all that did was leave me with wet balls all day. I ended up on co-codamole tablets until after the reversal had cleared up.

Hi Shaun

So sorry to read about your pain and very sad and angry that you too have been let down by Dr's who feel it perfcetly acceptable to deny us information with regard long term risks and ong term pain.

The official NHS rate is that 1 in 10 of men will suffer some form of long term pain after vasectomy - other reports and urologists put that risk at between 15% to above 43%

Ibuprofen will not even touch the surface of pain sadly and you you really need to get back to GP for prescription strength meds.

Be warned many GP's are either unaware of PVP or in total denial over it. Therefore you might find your GP will insist it is an nfection (which in fairness it may well be) and not give you pain relief but insist on high dose high strength antibiotics.

This is how I found myself, a disbelieving GP , which resulted in two full rounds of antibiotics whilst being left in excrutiating pain. So you may have to be very insistent with regards pain relief.

It may not be PVP but the pain on ejacultion, the pain in groin and the pain in leg area is what so many of us suffer and so it is very recognisable and therefore a possibility - but that is not to say it definitely is.

Reversal can help BUT the added complication there is that a reversal can also trigger PVP and if you already have it then it can increase pain etc. That said many who go for reversal find a reduction in pain, adly it cannot ever be totally eradicated but at least it can possibly come down to a level you can live with.

I opted for epidydectomy rather than reversal, which rules out a reversal at a later date. In my case it didn't solve the problem but made it worse.

Whatever option, surgical wise, you consider you need to ensure you are aware of all risk factors - don't be taken in by we have xx% success rate only - make sure you ask all the qestions you want and are given every single risk possible - overkill yes but at least you will be aware and can make an informed decision with informed consent - something the medical profession liikes to deny men the ability to have and do with regards vasectomy.

Please get to DR as soon as possible to get some decent pain relief, it will help take the edge off pain for you.

Ejaculation can cause huge pain and it isn't uncommon for it too feel like your testicles are being torn inside out with waves of pain after sex, so needless to say for the time being try to avoid sex until you get some decent pain relief.

Hope things begin to really improve for you and the pain lessens

cheers

Marc

Oh .. the other option that was suggested was cutting nerves to stop the pain.

Now if cutting two relatively large visible pipes caused this kind of pain, then I had absolutely no trust in the fact that cutting smaller nerves might not end up with me loosing feeling somewhere rather important from my POV!

I chose, in my case, a reversal first, then would explore other options if that failed to work.

i still think that you would be advised to wait a while (once on pain meds) before taking any further action. Less is sometimes better

I would say is that once you have had enough you have to manage the NHS like a project.  Important questions like when will I get a reply/appointment? What is planned? And if you don't get a reply within an agreed period then chase them.

i was married to a doctor at the time who said "Oh that will take ages" so I did not bother chasing. That was one of my biggest mistakes.

good luck!

Thanks for the advice guys really helpful for when I see the surgeon on 14 Nov. I've also been to GP and he reckoned could be infection so I'm on a 10 day course of antibiotics. They don't seem to be doing much so far! Also got 2 weeks of cocodamol 30MG which although helping a bit do not stop the pain and I'm still having real trouble sleeping through it at night. I'll keep you posted!! Cheers Shaun

Hi Shaun, you are like most of us, doctors doing vasectomies never tell us of the  many problems this op "simple for the surgeons" lets us in for. I have had a reversal which helped me a lot but I still have some pains. For me I could not sit down because the pressure from the seat always hurt my testicles, as well as other pains, so I went for reversal and never regetted that decision. Having the snip for me was my lifetime disaster decision. Good look