Real experience with vasectomy: "It's not as bad as it seems, but the pain is something to be reckoned with," says Marek. How does the procedure work?
Mark is thirty-seven, has a wife and two children. The couple decided that this family was enough for them and that they wanted to enjoy themselves without protection and without fear that their sexual games might cause another addition. So Mark, in consultation with his wife and doctor, headed for a vasectomy.
"How would I describe the experience? It's not as horrible as you hear, but it's not as relaxing as some guys write. I really don't believe anyone had their fallopian tubes severed and ran a marathon the next day. But let's get this straight," Marek begins his story, according to which the operation itself lasted about half an hour and was carried out while he was fully conscious, or only under local anaesthetic. "To be honest, their application hurt the most. But I would liken it to shooting myself several times in... well, you know where, with a stretched rubber band. The surgery itself wasn't very pleasant, but overall it was bearable. Despite the anesthetic, I could feel the doctor poking around down there, and mentally it wasn't great. But then the doctor and I started talking about the unpleasant experiences we had been through and my mood immediately improved," Marek says of the procedure.
When it was over, Marek was able to head home, although he was of course ordered to rest, ideally for a week. "I was bored as hell by the second day. After icing my testicles regularly, I was able to start work on the third day and after a week I started running again," he recalls. "I also think I was prescribed unnecessarily strong painkillers. It was enough for me to take an aspirin the first day and some beer the next days. There was no problem with sex either. I had my first one ten days after surgery and I was pretty stressed about how I was going to function. Fortunately, it was all in my head."
Would Mark recommend vasectomy to other men? "If you're like me, that is, if you don't want any more children, go for it. Moreover, modern vasectomy can be reversed and the function of the fallopian tubes restored. But the success rate of such an operation is not 100%," he sums up.
"The doctorfirst has you sign an informed consent form, which is full of scary terms like 'infarction', 'bleeding' or 'impotence'. As far as I know, the problem can only realistically occur with bleeding. The doctor told me that one of his patients took an antacid for a queasy stomach a few days before the procedure, which he definitely shouldn't have, since even such an over-the-counter drug thins the blood. So then he started bleeding on the operating table. Because the doctor was cautious, he sewed it up and postponed the operation for another day," Marek concludes.
LUI says: It's a good thing we don't impregnate our partner. But it looks like the vasectomy won't be such a big deal.
