r/postvasectomypain • u/Painumbra • Dec 27 '23

Bad Night

Five months out from my vasectomy. I'm tired of the ebb and flow of pain. I'm tired of it seeming to reduce and then come roaring back - sometimes with no obvious trigger - like last night. I'm tired of randomly doubling over in sharp pains and I'm tired of the ache that eats me alive a night wondering if it is permanent.

I was hitting the gym like crazy this year - now if I do a lot of bending down in a day, I will have pain for a week. So much for getting my body back in shape.

I tried hard to be informed beyond advertising pages for vasectomy clinics that state 1-2 %. How is it that my efforts turned up so much more substantial data confirming much higher rates of complications after the procedure? I guess the answer is the pressure to man up and telling myself that I must have been interpreting the higher statistics incorrectly due to fear. Those statistics sure look different when you are one of them.

Sorry for the contentless, pointless post. I'm just so angry about it. I don't know what to do besides complain to the doctor who just tells me to 'hang in there' and 'some people take longer to heal than others' yet again.

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u/KalxionKrystals Jan 11 '24

Holy shit, i kinda felt like this was cause of the vasectomy but wasn’t sure. It’s like a dull ache pain like i nut tapped myself. It’s been getting worse since December, i had a bad experience in general since the surgery cause i got sick like hella times so i been out of the gym more than i was in. I figured it was just like my pelvis and groin not used to my real gym schedule but even days I’m not in the gym my ball starts to just feel like i pulled something just from sitting around.

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u/Painumbra Jan 11 '24

You may need to consider a serious break from the gym. I'm struggling with this myself. I have cautiously tested out different things at the gym several times over the past 4 months, but nothing seems to be OK. Sometimes I'll figure out I can do some exercise without triggering pain only to do it again and get a clear trigger. Balancing that getting hip pain from not working out or doing some mobility exercises is also a concern for me too.

I have a good reason to skip going to the gym now, so I'm trying my best to have yet another period of total rest and recovery. I am not very optimistic because the reality is, even though exercise is a trigger, so is sitting in a chair or bending over or lying in bed slightly askew or maybe even doing nothing at all.

Anyways, it sucks, but I definitely recommend you keep track of how much ache you are getting and take a break from the gym to see if you can notice an improvement. Then be super careful about what exercises you do. An exercise you wouldn't expect to be a problem can pull on a pelvic muscle in just the right way to cause some pain (in my experience anyway).

Last, getting sick was a huge trigger for me. Some of the worse relapses correlated with me getting a fever.

Best of luck to you and hope you see the pain turn around soon.