BetterCallSaul
Master Don Juan
So I got snipped last week. It's been something on the to-do list for a while now and I finally got around to it. I think the decision became clear when we realized we didn't want anymore "surprises" in our life since we're getting older and with young children you don't bounce back, so to speak, as fast from less sleep and rest as you do when you're younger.
These days, if you have any sort of typical insurance coverage, this procedure is covered under a regular office co-pay since any decent urologist can do this in his own office and procedure itself takes about 15 minutes. The doctor will give you a prescription for a pill to take ahead of time, valium or morphine or something, to sort of really relax you prior to the surgery.
My case was a little different.......
I know what's involved in the actual procedure. During my initial consultation with the guy, he described what he'd do in detail ranging from injecting something directly into my scrotum, then making a small incision to cut the tubes inside and then cauterize them. For me, just typing this out is a little painful for me to think of; while I was sitting in the doctor's office listening to this I was getting borderline light-headed with this sick feeling in my stomach...and I'd still be awake during all of this! I remembered I'd have the morphine or whatever to help out, but even still, if I started panicking and moving around because of it, I didn't picture this working out too well.
I let the doc know about my concerns, mainly stemming from anxiety I noticed that I'd developed since my early 20s about having needles in my arm such as drawing blood for tests or when they hook you up to donate blood. For some reason this still lingers with me today. The doctor then mentioned that he could arrange for this as an outpatient surgery with anesthesia...I jumped at the opportunity. The cost would be significantly more he told me...I replied this was no problem. I was actually in the unusual position of having a sizable chunk of money still sitting in my account to be used this year so this worked out great.
So on the day of the procedure I check in, meet everyone involved, get the IV inserted into my arm. Anesthesia doctor comes in gets things started. I start feeling pretty good immediately. I remember being wheeled into the operating room, moving to another table, then the next thing I know I'm opening my eyes in some recovery room. I was out for maybe 45 minutes. The entire day, while I was still in the recovery room, then subsequently went home there was no pain at all. I was given a jock strap and some hydrocodone to help with any pain so I took one that night.
The next day I stuck with the schedule of hydrocodone and it managed the pain quite well. The only real thing I could feel was this dull ache down there and I alternated a few hours of wearing the strap and then taking it off. One way or the other didn't really help it was more along the lines of alternating between two types of discomfort. I did have an ice pack but I actually didn't really need it.
I took the entire week off from work for this. I've read accounts of guys who are up and doing normal stuff a couple days after the procedure. I wanted to purposely avoid this because I did not want to take any chances of something going wrong and irreparably harming me. So I got to be lazy this entire time, mostly watching tv, playing video games, taking naps...practically leading the life of a senior citizen. It was a nice change actually.
One problem I did have was I've never taken hydrocodone before. I noticed on the second day that this stuff was starting to make me constipated so I immediately stopped using it and just decided to deal with any pain on my own. I took no other medications at all. It's now almost 1 week after the surgery and the only dull pain I occasionally feel seems like it's coming from the stitches they used. It sorta feels like when you get one of your testicles twisted a little to one side or the other.
I started noticing normal sexual desire on about the third day but absolutely no inclination to do anything about it due the constant dull ache down there. Maintaining an erection during that time was more challenging than normal. It's beginning to get back to normal now but I'd say I'm still not 100%...maybe 80% at best. The doctor tells me I need to ejaculate at least 20-30 times in the next couple of months in order to clear out any remaining sperm. Having had only one so far things look normal.
These days, if you have any sort of typical insurance coverage, this procedure is covered under a regular office co-pay since any decent urologist can do this in his own office and procedure itself takes about 15 minutes. The doctor will give you a prescription for a pill to take ahead of time, valium or morphine or something, to sort of really relax you prior to the surgery.
My case was a little different.......
I know what's involved in the actual procedure. During my initial consultation with the guy, he described what he'd do in detail ranging from injecting something directly into my scrotum, then making a small incision to cut the tubes inside and then cauterize them. For me, just typing this out is a little painful for me to think of; while I was sitting in the doctor's office listening to this I was getting borderline light-headed with this sick feeling in my stomach...and I'd still be awake during all of this! I remembered I'd have the morphine or whatever to help out, but even still, if I started panicking and moving around because of it, I didn't picture this working out too well.
I let the doc know about my concerns, mainly stemming from anxiety I noticed that I'd developed since my early 20s about having needles in my arm such as drawing blood for tests or when they hook you up to donate blood. For some reason this still lingers with me today. The doctor then mentioned that he could arrange for this as an outpatient surgery with anesthesia...I jumped at the opportunity. The cost would be significantly more he told me...I replied this was no problem. I was actually in the unusual position of having a sizable chunk of money still sitting in my account to be used this year so this worked out great.
So on the day of the procedure I check in, meet everyone involved, get the IV inserted into my arm. Anesthesia doctor comes in gets things started. I start feeling pretty good immediately. I remember being wheeled into the operating room, moving to another table, then the next thing I know I'm opening my eyes in some recovery room. I was out for maybe 45 minutes. The entire day, while I was still in the recovery room, then subsequently went home there was no pain at all. I was given a jock strap and some hydrocodone to help with any pain so I took one that night.
The next day I stuck with the schedule of hydrocodone and it managed the pain quite well. The only real thing I could feel was this dull ache down there and I alternated a few hours of wearing the strap and then taking it off. One way or the other didn't really help it was more along the lines of alternating between two types of discomfort. I did have an ice pack but I actually didn't really need it.
I took the entire week off from work for this. I've read accounts of guys who are up and doing normal stuff a couple days after the procedure. I wanted to purposely avoid this because I did not want to take any chances of something going wrong and irreparably harming me. So I got to be lazy this entire time, mostly watching tv, playing video games, taking naps...practically leading the life of a senior citizen. It was a nice change actually.
One problem I did have was I've never taken hydrocodone before. I noticed on the second day that this stuff was starting to make me constipated so I immediately stopped using it and just decided to deal with any pain on my own. I took no other medications at all. It's now almost 1 week after the surgery and the only dull pain I occasionally feel seems like it's coming from the stitches they used. It sorta feels like when you get one of your testicles twisted a little to one side or the other.
I started noticing normal sexual desire on about the third day but absolutely no inclination to do anything about it due the constant dull ache down there. Maintaining an erection during that time was more challenging than normal. It's beginning to get back to normal now but I'd say I'm still not 100%...maybe 80% at best. The doctor tells me I need to ejaculate at least 20-30 times in the next couple of months in order to clear out any remaining sperm. Having had only one so far things look normal.
