# I thought vasectomies were supposed to be fairly painless **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 26, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920 "2008-04-26T00:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920/41 "2008-04-28T18:17:17Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] One of the benefits of being gay is I’ll never need a vasectomy. 😛 [/QUOTE] My feeling exactly! [QUOTE=gravitycrash] Yeah, but you will still need a condom. [/QUOTE] Been in a monagomous relationship 7 years, so I don’t need that either. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920/42 "2008-04-28T18:41:06Z")
Shhhh… Don’t tell everyone. One of the unwritten laws of Manness is to never tell anyone who hasn’t has a vasectomy just how much it **_fucking hurt_.** Mine went pretty well, there was the uncomfortable part where the doc taped my junk to my stomach and touched up my shave job while his cute young nurse took a couple of polaroids. Then the stick, which was quite honestly like having someone stand on my balls and twist around a few times. After that kicked in (and I’d like to reiterate the word kicked), things went well. The doc kept having to tell me to lie back because I kept trying to sit up and watch (Hey, when am I ever going to get the chance to see what’s in there again, huh?) but other than that no problems. A bag of frozen peas became my bestest friend for a few days and I took it easy so other than the original swelling (and may I say I was DAMN proud of the boys for a while, no pain but a couple of ripe pink avacados swimming around in the BVD’s) everything was cool. The followup exam (to make sure all the swimmers were gone) 6 months later involved a quick stop in a Burger King bathroom around the corner from the clinic but that’s another story… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920/43 "2008-04-28T18:47:58Z")
[QUOTE=nd\_n8] The followup exam (to make sure all the swimmers were gone) 6 months later involved a quick stop in a Burger King bathroom around the corner from the clinic but that’s another story… [/QUOTE] Jesus, I’d be afraid of catching something just being in there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920/44 "2008-04-28T19:00:16Z")
> [@Clivas](#): > > …seize me all the way up to my **waste** line on the right side. hehe, waste! ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920/45 "2008-04-28T19:04:47Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Jesus, I’d be afraid of catching something just being in there. 🙂 [/QUOTE] It was the only place I knew would be clean. However this was way before The King and his creepy commercials, if I had it to do over I would have opted for Wendy’s. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920/46 "2008-04-28T19:21:45Z")
A friend of mine had a vasectomy after their third child was born. A couple of years later, he and his wife decide they want to try for a fourth child. So he has the vasectomy reversed. They have a fourth child. Then he goes back and has a vasectomy AGAIN. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920/47 "2008-04-28T19:22:37Z")
No way. If I have another kid then I have another kid. I mean what’s 18 years of postponed retirement and four years of college tuition compared to a coupla hammer blows to the ol’ ballsac? Nuthin’! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920/48 "2008-04-28T20:27:53Z")
[QUOTE=Sauron] Then he goes back and has a vasectomy AGAIN. [/QUOTE] I wonder how they do the reversibles. Do have tiny little stopcocks, er, valves that the Doc turns on and off with a jeweler’s wrench and a magnifying glass? ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920/49 "2008-04-28T20:35:36Z")
I guess count me in the lucky ones. The procedure went great, though I had one day of minor discomfort once the novocain wore off. After that, I was only out of commission for a day or so. And the leftover boys still in the pipeline? Doc said give them about 20 “good ejaculations” before I considered myself safe, and then to get the sperm count done. Best damn 4 days of my life - the wife was DYING to get off her pill. I felt so dirty. Cheap. Used. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Clivas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@Clivas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clivas)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920/50 "2008-04-28T20:47:27Z")
[QUOTE=USCDiver] hehe, waste! [/QUOTE] Oops. haha. You know, given how it felt at the time it wouldn’t have surprised me if I had left a bit of a waste line on the paper sheet they put me on. So…today my boys are really tender, but it’s off and on. The cut doesn’t hurt (although there is a bit of a pinching feeling around the stitch) and it’s not red and swollen so I don’t think there’s an infection at this point. How long before I feel like normal and don’t even notice anything? Should I still be feeling a bit tender if there’s no infection? Is it because I’ve been sitting for too long (I ask this because I go back to work tomorrow and my job consists of sitting at a computer for the entire day) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920/51 "2008-04-29T01:56:56Z")
[QUOTE=Sauron] A friend of mine had a vasectomy after their third child was born. A couple of years later, he and his wife decide they want to try for a fourth child. So he has the vasectomy reversed. They have a fourth child. Then he goes back and has a vasectomy AGAIN. [/QUOTE] _WINCE_ I’ve never been so grateful to be faithful, in my 40s, and in a marriage with a woman my own age who may be going through early menopause, in my whole damn life. Next you’ll be telling me [Stihl](http://www.stihlusa.com/chainsaws/index.html) is coming out with vasectomy equipment… :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-vasectomies-were-supposed-to-be-fairly-painless/446920.md?page=2)