# Vasectomy Stories **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 5, 2001, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044 "2001-08-05T22:49:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/21 "2001-08-06T16:54:46Z")
I’ve still got at least one more progeny to create before the big snip, but I have no qualms about getting it done afterward. I’ve seen both the male and female sterilizations on the The Learning Channel, and guys have it easy. However, all bets are off when it comes to reversing the procedure. One of the most difficult TV operations I’ve watched. They actually had the nads extra-corporeal (outside the friggin’ body) and were batting them about with Whiffle-Ball bats. Well, maybe not, but man that had my legs crossed. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/22 "2001-08-06T17:01:28Z")
It was a dark and stormy night… ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/23 "2001-08-06T17:06:07Z")
I had mine done five years ago. Aside from a couple of days worth of discomfort, no big deal. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/24 "2001-08-06T17:09:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chrome Spot \* > \*\*It was a dark and stormy night… \*\* Suddenly, a shot rang out! But it was OK, because it was a blank. And everyone lived happily ever after. _fin_ ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/25 "2001-08-06T17:28:27Z")
(no, I didn’t have one done, silly). When I was in the Navy, I was stationed at a family practice clinic on a Marine base in Okinawa. My physician was a female and she, I and another male corpsman were the only ones in the “dependent” clinic. She went through some surgery training and we started offering vasectomies as an outpatient surgery. Our male corpsman wouldn’t/couldn’t assist (his hands kept wanting to grasp his crotch every time the doc mentioned “incision”) so I assisted. I cannot tell you the irony [sub]correct word?[/sub] I found in seeing some of the world’s toughest, most disciplined men blanch when we laid them down on that table and said, “Okay, now you’ll feel a little poke”. After the surgery, they almost always said, “It didn’t hurt like I thought it would.” BunnyGirl [sub]a la Tripler[/sub] …who’s seen it all ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/26 "2001-08-06T18:41:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manhattan \* > And everyone lived happily ever after. > _fin_ \*\* **Not** so fast…enter stage left the Bee Gee’s Vasectomy ! When the feeling’s gone and you can’t go on It’s Vasectomy When the morning cries and you don’t know why It’s hard to bear With no-one to love you you’re goin’ nowhere Vasectomy ! When you lose control and you got no soul It’s Vasectomy When the morning cries and you don’t know why It’s hard to bear With no-one beside you you’re goin’ nowhere Vasectomy etc. \ ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/27 "2001-08-06T18:55:47Z")
Here’s one for ya. When I had mine done, I guess I was sweating or something because the grounding pad for the cauterizing thingy was not fulled adhered to my side. The result:when the doctor went to cauterize the vas deferens, I got a nice big shock. Bastards. Besides that, the procedure was smooth and not painful, just _wierd_ feeling the tugging and stuff. I did have to go back to have a sperm cell granuloma removed. This is basically a calcified ball of sperm. It caused a little discomfort, but the first was so easy I went back to have them remove it with no worries. I would suggest someone be there for sympathy and to get you ice paks and the remote or whatever, but it’s not necessary. Hell, I went to jail the same night I had mine. But that’s another story… ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/28 "2001-08-06T21:17:09Z")
I’ve been seriously considering getting one, myself. I just have one question that I haven’t been able to find an answer to in my online research/ FAQ hunt: How long do you have to wait to put the little general back in service with his blank firing rifle? Any info from the TMs? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/29 "2001-08-06T23:48:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FallenAngel \* > \*\*I’ve been seriously considering getting one, myself. > > I just have one question that I haven’t been able to find an answer to in my online research/ FAQ hunt: How long do you have to wait to put the little general back in service with his blank firing rifle? > > Any info from the TMs? \*\* My Dr. said that it may take up to a month before your vas is cleared of existing sperm. I was a different case though since I had to have it done twice. My doc said that I was the second one in 500 that he has had to do it twice. You have to be careful, and you need to be tested after the procedure. I really didn’t have any problems. Very little swelling, little pain. If you start to feel ANY pain during the procedure, ask for more numb nuts :p. You might feel some pulling while the doc is up to his work. I felt comfortable with intercouse in about 5 days. But you must still use protection untill you know everything worked out o.k. The odds are good, but the goods are odd ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/30 "2001-08-06T23:58:52Z")
enipla, there are a lot of types of them. I remember they used to have one with a little switch so you could turn it on when you wanted to have a baby. Which kind did you have? ---
**Author:** ![Tyklfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tyklfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tyklfe)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/31 "2001-08-07T00:09:06Z")
ok, so did any of you guys who had vasectomys experience any differences during orgasm? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/32 "2001-08-07T00:42:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\*enipla, there are a lot of types of them. I remember they used to have one with a little switch so you could turn it on when you wanted to have a baby. Which kind did you have? \*\* Ummm… You may be pulling my … um … leg but I seem to remember some sort of valve that was tested years ago. I went the full route. Remember, I had it done twice. It ain’t gonna be reversed. I suppose that the Dr. could make it easier to perform a reversal if you wanted by not cutting so much of the vas. But do you want that or do you want to be sure. You’ve got to be sure. As I understand, the odds of reversal are low. IMHO, if you know you don’t want children, and if you’re old enough to know that, there is no reason not to get the snip. The odds are good, but the goods are odd. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/33 "2001-08-07T00:48:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tyklfe \* > \*\*ok, so did any of you guys who had vasectomys experience any differences during orgasm? \*\* Nope, no differece. Except maybe less to worry about. I just picked this this Sig out of the blue. Ha. dosn’t have anything to to with this thread. Odds are good, but the goods are odd. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/34 "2001-08-07T01:06:45Z")
> [@](#): > > I am talking about the tugging and hauling the surgeon felt it was necessary to do to get a good grip on the vas deferens. I wound up walking like a gang-raped hippo with diaper rash for some time afterwards. I was “out of action” for about a week and a half. (No, you can’t tell any difference afterwards.) My husband complained of the same thing. Not that he could feel any pain, but that he could feel anything _at all._ He most certainly did NOT like the feeling of his package being yanked on by someone who wasn’t going to smoke a cigarette with him afterwards. Husband’s was uneventful. But I found it highly amusing (like, so funny I had to call my mom & tell her) that the urologist’s name was Dr. Wang. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/35 "2001-08-07T01:20:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > \*\*Coincidentally, I know a guy that had this done a week ago last Friday. Haven’t seen him for a few days but certainly in the five-six days after the ‘event’ he was walking like John Wayne through a minefield. > > Also, in that immediate after snip period, he was talking rather gloomily about the psychological aspect – said he felt he’d had something important taken from him (even after 4 kSome guys do better than others \*\* I didn’t have any problems with the pain. I do like your description of John Wayne in a mine field. Great visual on that. I didn’t lose a bit of my ‘manhood’ when I had this done. As a matter of fact I feel I am a better man. This is something I did for my wife and myself. A very small sacrifice. I don’t mean to slap your friend, but my masculinity has always been above my shoulders, not below my waist. ---
**Author:** ![DoperChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@DoperChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoperChic)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/36 "2001-08-07T01:31:54Z")
Ok. So the orgasms are the same. It looks pretty much the same (minus the scar). But does the err… juice taste the same? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/37 "2001-08-07T01:41:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Star Light Star Bright \* > \*\*Ok. > > So the orgasms are the same. > > It looks pretty much the same (minus the scar). > > But does the err… juice taste the same? \*\* Looks the same, and feels the same and my Dr. says nothing else is diferent. No, I did not ask HIM if it tastes the same (didn’t seem prudent). I had two, and I can’t find either scar. Remember this is on the scrotum. Not the penis. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/38 "2001-08-07T17:07:37Z")
Thanks, enipla. I had heard up to six weeks beofre being allowed to enjoy again. Apparently that was the time to clear the tunnel rather than use the equipment. I appreciate the input. It might be time for me to make that call now. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/39 "2001-08-07T23:09:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by enipla \* > I don’t mean to slap your friend, but my masculinity has always been above my shoulders, not below my waist. \*\* Yeah, I know what you mean and he really isn’t a macho kind of guy. I think he was just a little fazed by it all last week - probably just getting his bearings. Anyway, thanks for the imput. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044/40 "2001-08-08T00:05:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LNO \* > \*\*I’m confused as to why some men are dead against a vasectomy. After I pop out a few kids, I’m more than willing to get snipped to prevent any future miracles. > > I sort of hope that rather than just snip the vas deferens, they’ll snip out a piece and let me keep it in a jar like when people have their tonsils out. I’d like to keep it on the coffee table. What a great conversation piece that would be. \*\* The Doc kept mine, it’s his way of insurance, so that if an immaculate conception did occur, the Dr. could be say he held up his part of the bargain, and the husband should check to see if those are **his** boots under the bed. When I had mine done, there was a Dr, a nurse, and a new nurse, first day on the job sort of thing, to observe. So I’m layin’ there, my package out in the spot light and having a little stage fright, nurse #1, compliments me on my close shave, apparently most men don’t do a good job in preparing the snip site. Nurses 1 and 2 start some small talk, Dr asks them if they want to know what he did this weekend, Yes Dr, please tell us. He proceeds to tell them that he spent most of Saturday sewing up a farmer. This farmer got the front of his pants caught up in some machinery, tore the pants right off of him, along with all the skin on his package.:eek: He then holds up the scalpel, and says “This won’t hurt a bit”. And it didn’t, other than some tugging and the smell of something burning, it was rather uneventful procedure. Recovery was few days with my balls in ice, and after that it’s been clear sailing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vasectomy-stories/75044.md?page=3)