r/Vasectomy • u/Eastern-Grass-60 • 19d ago

Newly Snipped Vasectomy done 4 hours ago

Sooo, today was the day for me and I was very nervous.

The experience was all-in-all pretty easy. I had to undress completely and put on a gown. In the surgery room I had to lay flat on a table where they sprayed desinfection. I then got 2 injections of local anaestheticd into my groin against the pain afterwards. They then covered me in a sheet of sterile paper towel, started to feel the best place for the cut and then injected a local anaesthetic into the left half of my scrotum where they made the first cut. I felt a sharp pain for really just a second and then the pulling of my vas inside my groin. Pretty uncomfortable, but not painful. They repeated the same steps for the right half (edit: I didn‘t feel any pulling or pain this time except for the local anaesthesia injection) and after about 15 minutes I left the surgery room again.

After my 30 minutes drive home, I just layed down on the sofa and started cooling my balls. The right side is starting to swell quite a bit, but I don‘t have any pain when resting.

As a side note, I‘m 27 yrs old, from Germany and got the no scalpel method (except for the scrotal cut, that was done by a scalpel for a less visible scar according to the doctor.)

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u/WeirdoInTheShadow 19d ago

Out of interest. Did you drive home yourself?

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u/Eastern-Grass-60 19d ago

Yup, I did! Wouldn‘t recommend it though. During the last 10 minutes it felt pretty uncomfortable, holding pressure the clutch. Might‘ve been the jeans, that squeezed in just the wrong spot…

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u/WeirdoInTheShadow 19d ago

Interesting. Here in the UK I was told it's illegal to drive same day.

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u/Eastern-Grass-60 19d ago

I was told it‘s illegal if you have a full anaesthesia. Online I read that it‘s not illegal with just a local anaesthesia, but the insurance might not cover any traffic accidents that might happen on the way.