vasectomy

Supercell wrote: »

Lads, whats it like when you have "that moment of joy" with your partner once its all healed up, is it the same, painful? Where does the stuff go if the pipes are closed? Wifey making noises here about getting it done as we have enough kids as it is.

The stuff is the same. Semen gets realised from the balls. , just the swimmers are cut off from entering the semen.

For me the moment of joy is better. , we had started using the pull out method. But now I can just plough on and keep going if I want too

Snotty wrote: »

Brilliant, I'll push it further, do you think a 5km lite jog or maybe a round of golf would be possible the next day.
I have the day after booked off work and don't really fancy sitting in the house on my own and if I knew I'd be OK I'd organise something

Everybody is different, but I wouldn’t recommend either a 5 mile walk and definitely would recommend NOT to have a light run.

Think of this in terms or risk management. You may not like being bored for a few days, but if you push things too hard and end up with complications, you could have to rest up for much longer.

For me, I was pretty careful, but still found that taking shortcuts didn’t pay. For example, I stopped wearing the jockstrap the day after the op, and that night I found I had a lot more pain than the first day. I went back to the jockstrap the next day and it improved. A few days later I tried to go back to normal tight boxers, but the pain returned again. In the end, I was wearing the jockstrap for about 2 weeks. If I had just worn it for the first few days solid I might have been able to dispense with it earlier. Even now, I find that I still need it for longer runs (a few months later). My running probably doesn’t have great technique, so there is a good bit of impact from foot hitting the ground, and the resultant bouncing of the balls tends to give me pain the next day. The jockstrap helps with that in a way that compression shorts don’t.

My advice would be to think of the possibility of long term pain if this goes wrong. In that context, a few days of boredom and being ultra careful doesn’t seem like a big deal.

I was on the waiting list in the north under NHS, procedure cancelled owing to Covid - twice! There's now some reciprocal agreement that means I can pay privately in the south and get it reimbursed by the NI Executive. Any advice on where in Donegal/border counties may be good or not a big distance away in terms of performing the procedure?

Cheers

I had the no-scalpel yesterday with Dr. John McCormack in Dublin.

I'll post everything that i can think of here, in case it is useful to anybody else.

Booking was easy. I made it a few weeks ago. He is very easy to deal with. He sent a questionnaire a few days beforehand and called me the day before. The call was mainly to talk through the risks. Those are all outlined on his website and others, so i won't bother repeating them here.

I had a good breakfast and drove up to Dublin by myself. There is a multi-storey car park on school house lane, just off Kildare street and just around the corner from the clinic. Due to Covid, he told me only to arrive at the appointment time and not earlier.

When I got there, I had to sign the waiver, acknowledging the risks etc.

Then, drop trousers and underwear and lie on the table.

He pulled back the foreskin and tied an elastic band just behind the helmet and attached that to my shirt, to hold my penis out of the way during the procedure. Then he used an alcohol disinfectant and had a feel around to find where everything was inside the scrotum. Then he put the anaesthetic in on both sides. In total it felt like about four injections. They were a bit sore, but not very. Then some chit chat, and then checked that i couldn't feel anything there and then went to work. He told me when the first one was done, and again checked that the anaesthetic had worked on the other side and then did that. Plenty of chat about sport during it. Then, he put a bit of gauze over the incision site, and told me to hold it there and to stand up. He helped me pull up the jocks and then i pulled up my shorts and sat down. He went through the process for semen analysis, gave me the tube, envelope etc. I paid and that was it.

Afterwards I went for coffee. He told me that the anaesthetic would wear off after about 30 minutes, so i took ibuprofen and paracetamol as soon as I got to the cafe. About an hour later, I drove home. I took it easy all afternoon. I followed the instructions for the ibuprofen (took 2 in total between 12:00 noon and bedtime) and paracetamol (5 in total yesterday). I had a few twinges of pain at various stages, but nothing significant.

I had followed the advice here and bought a few jockstraps beforehand. I wore that all yesterday and to bed last night. It is very effective at keeping my balls tightly held. But during the night, i woke a good few times, as the nighttime erections were constricted with the jockstrap and and the straps around the back were digging into me a bit. I guess that is the advantage and disadvantage of the jockstrap - it really does hold things tight, but at night that is not very comfortable - for the moment, i am working on the basis that the bit of discomfort in that regard is better than a lot of discomfort due to bruised balls etc.

When i got up this morning, i checked the wound. It is a really small slit down the middle of the scrotum (about 0.5 cm), with four pin prick holes around it (i presume they are where the anaesthetic went in). I left off the gauze today. I have a jockstrap on again today and will take 3 ibuprofen and 7 paracetamol during the day. The Dr. said that it is better to prevent the pain than to get rid of it, so for the moment I will continue to take the painkillers on time rather than based on whether I am in pain.

One last thing. I wasn't sure how much to shave and didn't want to fall short, so I just shaved everything, all of the scrotum, all of the penis and the bush above the penis. I did that about four days before the procedure, but I got a bit of shaving rash where I shaved the bush. I told him that when he called me, and he said that I had probably shaved more than I needed to. When I see where he worked, that is fairly obvious to me now! In case you are wondering where to shave, you only really need to have the front of your scrotum and the back of the penis (the part that touches the front of the scrotum) done. Definitely no need to shave the bush!

I'll try to post a few updates this week on how it is going.

I posted off my sperm sample 2 weeks ago and haven't heard anything back.

How long does it normally take for results to be given?

Did you end up getting the prcedure done with 'Gentle Procedures'? How did you get on? I'm thinking of getting the procedure with them in Naas. Same doctors in both clinic.

More or less a week since the vasectomy now (last Monday). All good, no major impact.

I stopped with the nurofen and paracetamol on Thursday.

Did the business on Friday, and all working well. No blood in the semen (or not that I noticed anyway).

I went for a light run yesterday evening (~5 Km), and took it easy. Felt fine during the run.

I wore the jockstrap for the run, but went back to normal underwear afterwards. Not sure if it is the underwear or the run, but felt a few twinges of pain last night (they woke me up), but very brief. Occasionally achey today, but nothing major. I'll see how it goes.

The wounds seems to be fully sealed now.

All in all, I consider myself very lucky that it went so easy, and very happy with Dr. McCormack. A nice guy, easy to deal with, and seems to have done a very good job. I would definitely recommend him. Fingers crossed that i'll be a fully fledged jaffa when I get tested in a few months!

I think all you can do is redouble your efforts. Remind your lady friend that clear pipes are in her best interests too 💥😉

Dont want to get into too much detail but there was bleeding and swelling that was a direct result of the procedure. Different doctor told me this would not be a normal side effect.

To be fair, pain wasnt enough to stop me working (mainly drive a desk), most of teh time toook eiher nothing or over the counter pain killers was but prescribed ocycoden for when I needed it (only took a few) Couple of weeks and all the swelling and pain was done. No issues since.

There can be cases where a small number of non-viable swimmers remain in the semen. Directions i received were that if the second test still shows sperm, you go into the rotunda and generate a sample there. They then analyse it within an hour to test if any of the sperm are viable. If not, it is considered that you are sterile. If they are viable then i guess the vasectomy has failed.

Started to look into getting this procedure done myself.

Had a search through the thread and not sure if this crowd have been discussed ?

gentleproceduresireland.ie/vasectomy/no-scalpel-procedure

Has anyone any experience with this clinic ?

Don't worry about it yet. Failure rate is very low. Chances are that your next sample will be clear.

Don't get worked up about it, my first two samples came back with a small number in them. "Barely above the minimum" was what I was told on the second one, nevertheless we proceeded to a live sample, which came back completely clear. Very, very rare that it wouldn't.

I tell myself that I was so fertile that it took forever to clear the pipes :p

Dr John McCormack rang me last week and said my sperm is all clear so procedure worked out fine.

Does he send out a letter just confirming this or am I being paranoid haha?