Vasectomy-trackworld

Anyone had a vasectomy done in a hospital rather than a clinic? I did back in February in the Urology department due to having high blood pressure.

Provided a sample test a few months later and results seem ok but states that I need a follow up.

Appointment has just come through but most people I know have just received a letter to say it’s been success. Wondering why I’ve now got to go back. It’s not for another month

I’m guessing you still aren’t firing blanks?

A brick to the nads should do it but I’d probably go the NHS route overall.

Don’t you need 2 clear samples for it to be confirmed? I’m sure I had to do that but it was about 25 years ago so maybe out of date!

AFAIK its only 1 sample nowadays. My sample result looks positive but confused why I’ve got to go back to hospital. No reason given

Mine was about two years ago and they wanted two samples, first was four months after, second was about a month after that.

That’s the Scottish system, no idea what they want down south

PS they said that in advance, it’s not because there was anything amiss with the first

I won’t be doing it again. Mine was a disaster. Had follow up surgery for an epididymectomy a year later due to pain, then two additional procedures where I had a needle inserted into the bad side. Was in alot of pain for years. Settled a fair amount now but it was 12 years ago. Dare not get my nuts cold, so jeans are out in Winter.

Due to surgeries and damage, I am on testosterone replacement.

Never again.

Hope you don’t get PVPS.

PS one sample in my case but couldn’t care less due to pain.

My was straight forward other than having to have it done at the hospital due to my high blood pressure.

I’ve had no cpmplications or pain. Hopefully its just a follow up even though not expected

Sorry to hear that Fossy, I feared that would happen when they describe the risks.

Mine was fine, the surgeon obviously assumed everyone liked their nuts firmly handled. Smarted a bit in my abdomen when they tugged the tubes.

2samples here in Lothian, 12 & 16 weeks.

I had to keep calling the GPs and I kept asking for test results. Turns out they weren’t test results, it was a letter that they were sent a week or so previous.

Mine been faultless. Had pals who’ve taken a few tanks in the jar to get no swimmers, wouldn’t worry.

Yeah, you’ll need to provide two clear (i.e swimmer free) samples.

I had to provide about 4 or 5 samples. The last one had to be ‘fresh’ so I had the pleasure of whacking one out in the “sexy time room” local fertility clinic.

Tbh, I think they were just collecting my premium offerings… But I’ll never know for sure…

DrP

In case it reassures the OP mine was fine too.

Took half an hour to do, not nearly as painful as expected, wee bit sore for a week (by far the worst bit was the cat launching himself off the window onto my lap) but otherwise fine. Nothing stronger than paracetamol required (and I’m normally a bit of a wuss) Running again in a fortnight, on the bike again in less than a month. No problems at all since.

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Bad luck fossy, that’s awful. Was it scalpel or laser ?

I had a bad experience with scalpel but luckily it only ended up feeling like a mild sack-tap every now and then. For a while it was like being hoofed in the plums every time I walked.

I too ended up on trt but I’m led to believe it was unrelated…

Hospital for me (Scotland) and ended up being a GA as he said my tubes were a bit awkward in the pre-op fondle and it would be easier for both of us if I was knocked out.

I had a nightmare with an infection afterwards that took a month or so to clear up (as did a friend of a friend done by the same guy in the same hospital I found out later).

Didn’t work ,  definitely two samples, maybe three. I can’t remember. Apparently numbers were down, but not gone. I was offered a re-snip by the same guy, but politely declined.

When I had mine, the surgeon discovered he hadn’t quite used enough local anaesthetic a split second after I did.

To be fair, I was first up on the cold vinyl couch on a cold frosty morning. Between that and some nervousness, it was less keyhole and more microsurgery.

Mine was a breeze, private clinic tho. 10 mins procedure, one test after 16wks, been clear since May and no kids in production!

Had a little soreness within first 4-6 weeks now and again, and occasional tenderness since, but nothing bad and I’m happy with that process and results. Wasn’t too pricey either, from a well regarded doctor.

Dunno if private require less tests?

Mine was no-scalpel – they still cut you. Right side went fine, minor ‘tingle’ on the 3 zaps – one to sever the tube, then next two to seal. Left side was something else – pain meds hadn’t worked. first zap, ‘oh la la’, can you put more anaesthetic in, nope zap zap. Hurt. What he did do was then sever a blood vessel (the vas has the sperm tube, nerves and blood supply around it) – cut that so he then had to suture it.  Total shoot job, as my pipe was ‘pulling’ into my groin, hence off to see Urology.  Took the consultant about two hours to fix me up – it was a mess.

I started to feel bad on the bike after about 6 months, and as I was commuting to work, could really see the evening ride get slower and slower, despite it being spring/summer. Blood results, testosterone of 5 n/mol – should be over 15.

Most go well, I just ended in A&E shortly after the snip as the pain and swelling was so bad (referred by docs) then Urology for months, then follow up surgery after 12 months). The follow up was full GA and two hours under for one nut. It was a right mess after, and still ended up in A&E a day or two later – I had three nuts by then despite part of lefty being cut off. The swelling was horrible. Then continued under Urology for a couple of years with referral to a pain consultant – same guy who had ‘done’ my shoulder pain was doing my ‘nut pain’.  He told me you wouldn’t find male pain consultants having had the snip as they see so many referrals.

Glad to report it’s not so bad now and only gets bad in cold weather. Was terrible for about 5 years.

I’m not sure if I genetically create a lot of scar tissue, as even my shoulder de-compression took a good 18 months to be ‘good’ again on the bike (pulling on bars). I seem to heal up fast but there is excessive scarring, that then calms down and goes over time. I ripped a chunk off my forearm with a car wing mirror (from the glass side) and that healed over very fast, but was a right mess for 12 months.

Thankfully I didn’t ask for your experience Fossy. I maybe wouldn’t have had mine reading that. Sounds awful.

In Scotland I was about 18 months all in for the operation from first requesting at my GP.

I enquired at the Spire at shawfair and was quoted £2k for the op and I think it was £150 for two samples.

Following my samples (postal) the NHS letter says it’s better to get the samples tested asap and they can’t guarantee I’m sterile despite that being their favoured collection method.

When I had mine, the surgeon discovered he hadn’t quite used enough local anaesthetic a split second after I did.

Makes everyone jump doesn’t it.

Mine has gone broadly ok. Hellish swelling after, looked like I had a third testicle growing. First sample after 12wks got lost in the Post, second one I am free of swimmers.

When I told the Boss that I had to have 20 ejaculations during that period, she said ‘you’ve got hands’…

@brokenbanjo = name checks out

When I had mine, the surgeon discovered he hadn’t quite used enough local anaesthetic a split second after I did.

Had that after GA when having a Steimens  pin inserted into my leg after fracturing my femur. Untidy.

With my Vasectomy,  I had the all clear letter, followed by them sending the “you’re nor all clear-stop” letter a week later…

Good news is they sent those letters to my angry ex!! Made me chuckle!

Had mine in hospital. Was surprised to be wheeled into a large room full of people and asked “do you mind if these students watch?”
needless to say I got stage fright and everything disappeared. The amount of tugging the surgeon had to do to extract my balls from my abdomen was quite alarming!

GP did mine. Casually chatting to the nurse while I’m sat there with my nuts out. He did give me a couple of diazepam to take 30 mins before procedure, which was nice.

Then I walked home after. This was not so nice, it was close to 40c. The last thing you need is ya bawbag sticking to your leg after a procedure like this hahaha

Had mine done 9 years ago after the 3rd child, he hit a literal nerve which sent a zap up my testes – like hitting your funny bone but it’s your balls.

Not had kids since and absolutely no issues with it fortunately. Best thing I did, besides divorce a year later.

Had mine done then rode back home* on my motorbike. Funniest thing was forgetting to bring shoes,so had to walk to surgery in the back to front gown,with only a set of MX boots 🙂 What was not funny was a couple of weeks later when I jumped off a desk in the office after opening a high window.

*50 miles

Two samples was the norm when I had mine done, +25 years ago.

In case it reassures the OP mine was fine too.

Took half an hour to do, not nearly as painful as expected, wee bit sore for a week (by far the worst bit was the cat launching himself off the window onto my lap) but otherwise fine. Nothing stronger than paracetamol required (and I’m normally a bit of a wuss) Running again in a fortnight, on the bike again in less than a month. No problems at all since.

Had mine on a Monday lunch, drove home and then by Thursday I was back to using the motorbike for my hour commute.

Slightly uncomfortable for a week or so.

Absolutely no problem with mine, performed in a hospital, apart from leaving me with an associative memory involving burnt bacon.

All this talk of hospital makes me think a lot of these are pretty out-dated experiences – surely the vast majority are done in community clinics / GP surgeries nowadays?

The modern scalpel free approach is pretty low stress after the initial jab from the local. I hadn’t realised they do both sides from the same incision (not sure if that’s a recent innovation). Post op testing (16 wks?) is to throw a sample in the post. If no swimmers at all – all done. If there are some present they then do follow up test which needs a fresh sample to check if those that are present are alive or not.

My best advice would be try and have it done on a Friday so you have a solid gold orders from the Doctor to spend the weekend with your fee up on sofa and be waited upon. I’d happily have it done again to have another excuse for a weekend like that! Oh and follow the ice pack advice while you’re luxuriating on the sofa even if you have no pain/swelling.

All this talk of hospital makes me think a lot of these are pretty out-dated experiences – surely the vast majority are done in community clinics / GP surgeries nowadays?

Mine was about 10 years ago in a hospital. Not sure how outdated that is in terms of NHS (Scotland).

Surely you want to get it done on a Monday?! My boss gave me the surgery day and two recovery days off, in advance – I ain’t wasting a weekend being immobile on the sofa!

Local clinic for me, latest no-scalpel – MrsF did comment it felt like an abortion clinic – one bloke after another going in to be zapped.

Oh and smelling the last bloke’s burn nuts wasn’t so pleasant.

Had mine in hospital. Was surprised to be wheeled into a large room full of people and asked “do you mind if these students watch?”

Mine as well, years ago, bunch of students, obviously mostly very attractive young women. As an aside; I follow @Fesshole on Threads and there a was a guy saying as a young man for various health related reason had both his testicles removed, hasn’t told his partner. She’s now pregnant and is telling him that it’s his…

surely the vast majority are done in community clinics / GP surgeries nowadays?

I wouldn’t have thought so, despite it being routine, the equipment and consumables, room requirements and staffing costs probably make it prohibitively expensive for a GP practice to be bothered with unless they were established and getting plenty of referrals from the local community, whereas as part of the Urology dept with everything there available and on hand (phnarr)…Mostly just easy day surgery.

I wouldn’t have thought so, despite it being routine, the equipment and consumables, room requirements and staffing costs probably make it prohibitively expensive for a GP practice to be bothered with unless they were established and getting plenty of referrals from the local community, whereas as part of the Urology dept with everything there available and on hand (phnarr)…Mostly just easy day surgery.

Mine was about 18 months ago and I received a letter asking me to log on to an online system and choose a clinic. There were 3 or 4, none were at a hospital, they were all GP surgeries or some kind of community clinic, I think each running a monthly session. I just picked the one with the shortest waiting time, but lucked out as the GP who did it was a mega vasectomy nerd. We had a very lengthy discussion, with him drawing lots of diagrams of anatomy and statistics plots. Not sure if this was standard service or because he found out I was a scientist. He provided his email address and said to email him directly if I had any issues at all. He reckoned he’d never had a patient who had had long term pain and was adamant that if he was contacted at the slightest hint of any issue then he’d be able to nip it in the bud. He seemed REALLY into it and told me all about how he presented his numbers at the relevant annual conference each year! Anyway – for anyone looking for the snip in the Cambridge area, I would give Cambourne Vasectomy Service 10/10, A+++, would use again, etc.

Surely you want to get it done on a Monday?! My boss gave me the surgery day and two recovery days off, in advance – I ain’t wasting a weekend being immobile on the sofa!

Fair point, but during the week I wouldn’t have had my wife to wait on me hand and foot!

I was weighing up paying for private or waiting for a spot on the GP list, I say weighing up but the discussion was more along the lines of the wife saying if she hadn’t had the luxury of a side room for the birth of our two, then I wasn’t getting the benefit of private. So I dutifully went to the GP only to be informed they didn’t do it any more, they just had a list and when you got to the top then they gave the equivalent of a voucher at a Marie Stopes of your choice. Wife was livid, I think she liked the idea of me being butchered by an enthusiastic amateur.

The event itself was interesting. As someone said above, when my name was called i was shown through to an anteroom where the nurse gave me instructions to strip from the waist down ‘but leave your socks on, the floor’s cold’. You’re instantly at a disadvantage when your first meeting with the youngish doctor has you Winnie-the-Poohing in to the room but with socks on. It doesn’t then get better when you lay down on the table and they put a sheet over your nethers, pull your rapidly diminishing meat and two up through a hole in it, and then PAINT IT ALL WITH ANTISEPTIC

After that they can do anything, just make it a/ quick and b/ without eye contact.

No pain as such, just the unpleasant tugging sensation (stop it!) and a feeling like a gentle kick in the balls in your lower abdomen. Then the bacon smell, and back off the bed. Not the best day out ever, not the worst either.

The aftercare was ‘interesting’ – I got a minor infection in the wound that stopped it healing well, so had to go back a week or so later where without warning the (different) doctor desloughed the wound, which made me jump a bit. But then it healed well with daily saltwater baths (ISTR that was TJ’s idea) and no lasting ill effects.

I enquired at the Spire at shawfair and was quoted £2k for the op and I think it was £150 for two samples.

I missed this earlier.

Mine was 25 years ago and done privately at the GP’s, £150 all in including the 2 samples.

‘…nip it in the bud’, quite so.

I seem to recall having a pre op check – the middle aged woman who said she was the surgeon  who would do the procedure had a good old feel down there to make sure everything was as it should be.

Never saw her again. Op was done by a youngish bloke.  Pretty sure the receptionists just took turns for a laugh….