Farrk. Why do I read these threads.
How long from seeing GP (I assume your first point of enquiry is with GP?) to surgery?
Also people that had it done a while ago – any long term complications like reduced libido or more prone to infections / discomfort?
About 6 weeks I guess, BUT my GP surgery doesn’t do it, the longest wait was the referral from mine to the one down the road.
One thing I found a bit jarring – first appointment I brought my Wife along because they wanted to speak to both of us – which I agreed to, that got me a referral to the other doc, he wanted to speak to me again fair enough, and asked if my Wife was coming, I said no, we’ve got 2 kids and it’s a fair old faf to both be off in the middle of the day and without the kids, plus firstly she’s been had the run down already, secondly she’s a Nurse and doesn’t need it explained, again, in baby talk – he firstly refused, but finally agreed I could come on my own if my Wife signed the forms confirming she was okay with it- WTF! It’s my body, and imagine the placards if you had to have your husbands written permission to go on the pill or have an abortion etc.
Anyway, rant over after the consultation with the GP who was actually doing it, it was a case of picking a date in the diary – I could have done it 2 days later but that wasn’t long enough for me to get used to the idea so I picked a day about 10 days later.
No long term complications for me so far, (8 weeks post-op) occasionally is aches a bit, and I’m convinced I can feel the knot in my sack ha ha. The wound is tiny, I’ve got a pic somewhere, doesn’t need stiches with the method I had, nor a laser.
One of my mates had it done about 4 years ago, using an older method – they stitched his vas to his sack and he suffered bruising and pain for months before he went back to ask if his purple/black beach ball in his pants was “normal”, but they don’t use that method so much now.
