Hi all, I just wanted to briefly share my experience with this sub, perhaps it will inform others, encourage you to get your vasectomy, and do your due diligence before getting it.

So a few days ago I celebrated my first post-vas anniversary and it made me reflect on the event. A little bit about me: I'm in my early 40s, married with two kids, my wife had been taking birth control for years and was getting tired of that plus the doctor warned her it could have some side effects down the line. We were sure we didn't want any more kids, so I began looking around for a urologist. I talked to three different ones before making a decision. I went with an older doctor who had been in the military when young. He told me he had performed 1000s of vasectomies just during his service and a few thousand more during the rest of his career. Can't really know if that's true, of course, but he still projected on me a sense of experience and confidence in knowing what he was doing. He was, however, a conservative doctor and his method of choice was a small incision in scrotum with a scalpel, cut off a piece of each vas, and cauterize all ends.

I scheduled the vas a few days after my birthday and I went to the clinic literally shaking. I was scared shitless. The doctor decided for general anesthesia given he said my vas was shorter than average and he was going to pull them and it would hurt like all hell. The operation lasted some 50 minutes and when I woke up I was all bandaged down there. I went home heavily drugged and did not feel any discomfort, but when the effect started to wear off, I began feeling a shitload of pain. I remember how taking a dump or taking a shower became excruciatingly painful experiences. Anytime my balls hanged loosely it was hell.

This lasted a couple of days and after a week I was able to take slightly long walks without my balls hurting so damn much. A month later I was jogging and hiking again using supportive underwear. About 3 months after the operation and due to the fact I work sitting at a desk for a big chunk of the day, I started getting pains in my left nut, it was like sitting for prolonged periods put pressure on my left vas, which caused it to hurt. I had to get a standing desk and work standing up made the pain slowly disappear.

6 months later I was about 90% recovered. With the exception of occasional and very bearable discomfort in my balls after rough sex or a rough workout, I was feeling great. My libido was pretty much like it was before or even higher. Ejaculations are just as intense as before.

A year later I often forget I even had a vasectomy and very, very sparsely do I feel a little bit of discomfort, like having a scar on your skin, it feels pretty much normal but sometimes it is just a tad more sensitive than the rest of your skin.

What else? Oh, yeah, 3 or 4 months after the fact I did experience a weird bout of depression. It was like somehow it dawned on me how I was now sterile and I would never have kids again. It was weird but it vanished just a few days later. I must say, this sub was incredibly helpful in helping me get advice, vent, and share my experience with others.

So, bottom line, I have had a good experience. My wife and I are free of any birth control, we can have worry-free sex, and all is good.

I know many people have bad experiences and I do feel for all of you and empathize. I will say it again: I was scared shitless when I went into the operating room and the first three months afterward the fear of experiencing PVPS scared me shitless. Getting a vasectomy is no joke so do your due diligence, understand exactly what the doctor will do to you, and don't let the doctor tell you you are imagining the pain if you happen to feel it afterward.

Good luck everybody. Thanks for reading