robot_parade

So, got the big V done today. Things went fine. The procedure itself was kind of like being gently kicked in the nuts pain-wise. Lots of pulling and prodding. Now I'm in bed with an ice-pack and beer. Wish me luck.

Plan9

So... can you get me a discount on mine?

...

May your nuts recover quickly with the aid of ice and beer.

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canuckguy

i just subconsciously crossed my legs lol.

get well soon mate.

Redlemon

I hope you did this before you read Clavus' thread.

I'm about 2 years away from my snipping.

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robot_parade

No, but now I have a pretty good idea of how they work...I could have a go at doing yours for you!

Do you have a pair of pliers, some good scissors, and a soldering iron?

Oh dear. I guess I'll read it now.

canuckguy

Clavus story on this topic is classic. should be a mandatory read for all potential snippers. i'll be getting it done in about 3-4 years....(gulp)

is 9am too early to start drinking?

robot_parade

So, here's Clavus' thread: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=36021

Nice. :-)

Read his, and here's how mine was, for comparison:

I didn't take the valium. Maybe this was a mistake, maybe not. But, I wanted to drive there and back, because it was more convenient, and I generally don't like being 'out of it'. So, I get to the office, and do the waiting room thing. Paid my $25 copay. Then a nurse came out and took me down to 'the room'. She discussed how things would work, and left the room while I dropped trou. I laid down on the table and put the sheet in place. The nurse came back in, and did all the various prep work, then scrubbed in and we waited for the doc. He came in, checked the notes, and scrubbed in, then they got to work. He did the local anesthetic thing, warning me not to move. It hurt about like a flu shot does. He waited a few seconds, then got to work. Washed the twins off with some water, then did the snippy. Didn't feel a thing. "This is gonna be a piece of cake!", I thought, and relaxed. Turned out I was *wrong*. Apparently (according to the doc), the nerves for the vas run up into the abnominal cavity, and there's no way to numb that. So, when he started tugging, it hurt a good bit. About like being kicked in the nads 'gently'. Not as bad as a full on knee-to-the-nads-I-just-want-to-die-now kick, but not very pleasent, either. He yanked the vas out, and cut that. Then he did some more business (clipping them, I think). Then he got out the cauterizer thing. Whee. Buzz, sizzle, sizzle..."is someone burning bacon?" I didn't feel the cauterizing at all though. After the first one was done, he went for another shot of the anesthetic. This time, I said "I felt a little prick that time.". The Dr.'s response: "Yeah, we try to avoid that term in this profession, but you said it, not me."

Ha. Funny guy. :-)

The second went about the same as the first...another gentle kick in the cajones, snip snip, clip clip, sizzle sizzle. He got everything tucked back in and in place, then stitched me back up.

A bit of gauze, and we're done. They make sure I'm ok, leave the room for a bit so I can get dressed again, and come back for the post-op instructions.

Last night wasn't really too bad. I just stayed put all evening and let the wife wait on me. This morning's shower was a little rough...I'm still pretty tender after that, and I think I'm just gonna hold the couch down all day today.

So, painwise, it wasn't that bad for me. I'm just feeling very, very, very delicate. I'm not in pain now, but I can only imagine the pain if I tried to do *anything* active. So I'm just gonna sit pretty for awhile.

Lucifer

I remember reading in Esquire about 20 years ago about some guy getting the big "V" and him relating things that you shouldn't do afterwards, one of which was hosting a cocktail party. He said he was in the kitchen helping his wife mix drinks when the freezing wore off. He said to imagine Lyle Alzado placing his right foot in your left nut! An image that has managed to stay with me ever since!

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HAL9000

Welcome to the club. Follow your doctors advise and take it easy. And remember you did you part for Birth control. Enjoy your new freedom from worry!

Shauk

i just cant see the reason or the appeal for this procedure.

vanblah

Reason: not getting your SO pregnant.

Appeal: yeah ... not much appeal; but it probably hurts a great deal less than giving birth.

World's King

Want me to kiss it and make it better?


HA!!!


Sorry.

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robot_parade

Yeah, what he said.

Mrs. Parade had one of the 'implant' devices for several years, but ran into some 'female troubles' because of it, so she had it removed.

I'm fully confident that a week or so of discomfort is worth never having to put on a condom again.

Dude. You want to kiss my sweaty, swollen, bleeding, bruised nutsack?

Be my guest.

:-)

ItWasMe

I do hope you are feeling better soon, Robot.

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Shauk

i just have a pornographic addiction to shooting my junk perhaps, I couldn't give that up. would girls that squirt give up thier ability to do something as cool?

oh gee I do so hope my immaturity isn't obvious

robot_parade

Umm...well, let's call it ignorance instead. I plan to be 'shooting my junk' for quite awhile yet. :-)

Vasectomies don't change any visible qualities of your semen, dude, they just prevent the sperm from being included in the mix. Since only a small part of the semen is sperm, everything seems to be the same to the..er...naked eye.

In fact, that's why, in a few months, I get to hand a brown paper bag with a bit of my 'stuff' to a nice lady who'll look at it through a microscope to make sure the little swimmers are all gone.

jimk

put me on the snipped team.

my experience was similar to clavus'.

a bit bittersweet for me & the mrs. knowing that the spawning period of our lives is over (3 boys), but when the baby started howling last night about an hour after the middle one had pissed his bed, i felt very comfortable with the decision.

now looking forward to unprotected,recreational (not procreational) sex for the first time since the '80's!! (once all the little swimmy guys have cleared out)

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imkeen

Had mine done a few years ago and has basically the same experience. I did notice that for quite a while after, I could feel a minor pain when fully erect or thrusting during sex. For me that pain gradually went away over the course of many months. Not significant pain, but a pain all the same for quite a while longer than I was expecting.

I'm happy and excited by the fact that I'm not able to get my SO pregnant. Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate a round, fertile woman (can be very sexy, imho) and being a parent, but the fact that I can have sex 24/7/365 in any spontaneous way we want with no risk of pregnancy is a far greater benefit (and very useful/practical too) at this point in my life. I don't need to strive to populate the planet with my DNA, just two is good.

Mortons

I had this lovely procedure done for Mother's Day, 2003.

The day of my surgery, I went to the phamacy and got the valium. The pahmacist warned me not to take it if I was driving. I assure them I wasn't going to drive.

I took the valium, not knowing what the effect would be on me. Needless to say, it hit me pretty quick. 5 minutes later, I was singing the theme song to Gilligan's Island with my 3 kids and wife in the car. I thought I was perfectly fine, but my wife said I was wobbly in the car.

The procedure happened and I was in a giddy mood (thanks Valium). My Dr. put on some rastafarian music and was bebopping around with his head. The nurse was telling jokes about why we had to invade Iraq (she called it Iraq-tile dysfunction). And I belly laughed for 10 minutes. Of course, this was while he was trying to retrieve the vas defrens, it kept slipping out of his fingers. The rest of the procedure went according to plan and I was set free 15 minutes later. Got my pain pills from the pharmacy at the clinic I was at and went home. 18 hours, I was back at work, little pain.

Here's where my problems started.... I should have listened to the Dr. advice on no physical activity for 6 weeks after the surgery. I was relatively new to Martial Arts and I missed the workouts with my son (4 at the time). So, I took him and worked out. Well, earlier in the day, I was coughing and sneezy from an allergy and I 'felt' something down under. Then I was kicking and run and jumping at Taekwondo. 1 hour after returning home, I was prostrate on the floor, unable to move. I though I pulled a hernia, but the pain was coming on so fast.

My wife arrived home and took me to the hospital emergency room. By this time, my lower region was the size of a cantelope. I felt like my wife during labor, it was open door day at the hospital and everyone from the janitor to hospital director must have walked through my room to see the sights. My wife, was amazed at the swelling, went with me to the ultrasound room and was helping another woman scan my gonads, poking and pressing. They would push and move and them point at the screen. To them, it was all academic, to me, the morphine shot provided no relief.

I spent the next 3 days on morphine at the hospital, unable to walk. The morphine really didn't kill off the pain down there, but it did help chill out the rest of my body. Soon, they took away my morphine and started with demerol shots, which didn't really help much either.

Then, finally, they called in the damn witch doctor (he's a "pain management specialist"). And this guy managed to produce significant pain in my body through his attempts to block the nerves that run over the hipbones to your groin. He poked around for 45 minutes trying to make the pain stop, only inducing more. His therapy brought no relief (and he charged me some $1400 for his services).

Now, 5 years later, I can look back and laugh. Initially, I was nearly pain free, but I'll be damned if that infection didn't produce multiple gallons of tears.

jewels

Good for you! I think anyone who has this done is an awesome guy. Many won't even consider it.

I have a feeling you're gonna be fine!

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robot_parade

It's all healed now. The little robot is in fine working order. :-)

grumpyolddude

I had my "V" nearly 15 years ago. Got done on Friday, sat on ice through the weekend and went to work on Monday. No extra pain or trauma. Guess I was the lucky one.

Favorite part: several weeks later, under "doctor's orders," QW helped me clear out my plumbing over and over again, to make sure none of the little swimmers remained.

Sorry you suffered, brother, but congrats on stepping up! Same to all who have taken the responsible route.

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jewels

This is the second time in the past twenty-four hours that I've not noticed the date on an OP. Sorry to bring those memories flooding back.

Glad it only took you seven months to heal.

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fresnelly

Thanks for this thread guys. I'm in the early planning stages so it's good to hear frontline experiences.

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Mortons

Don't look at my situation too critically though. My problems were rare and possibly linked to MY not following the doctors orders.

I'd recommend it for anyone that is positive about not having any more kids.

Some of the thoughts I had before the procedure:

1) will I be any less of a man? NO!

2) will I have any less sexual drive? NO!

3) will I have to use any protection going forward? NO!

I'm quite happy with the results, no more issues with pain since about a month after returning home from the infection related hospital stay. The first few ejaculations may cause a tiny bit of discomfort, this is usually caused by minor swelling still in the area from the procedure. It's not a showstopper, but the twinge was noticable, and when my father and I talked about it... He said he had the same issue as I did with that minor discomfort for about 6 months the surgery.

That discomfort is NOTHING compared to the freedom and joy that happens when you are finally pronounced sterile and firing blanks without worry of conception.

radioguy

i just scheduled mine for aug 27th...can't wait!!!