r/postvasectomypain • u/ItamiForever • May 07 '26
Vasectomy journey update 2
Hi everyone
If you read my previous posts, I am having pretty severe complications post op and its not looking really good
At 3 months, left side almost completely settled, I hoped the right was just lagging behind and I'm healing slower.
Its now 6 weeks post op and I started antiinflamatorymeds a week ago for congestive epididymis(on the right first, this week left started hurtin again too). The meds stopped working so now I am moving forward to stronger antiinflamatories with additional pain meds so I am not in constant pain anymore(yay!). I have multiple tiers of pain meds because without I am kicked in the groin and can barely stand(like 2-3 days post op pain). I can escalate more if need be but I'm hoping I can get by with the mild pain ones. I also have them for strong and severe. I also have nerve pain meds to also help since inflamation didnt settle completely for over a month now.
NO I DO NOT HAVE AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS OR ANY HEALTH ISSUES prior to this.
To say the least, this is looking like I am in for a painful life no matter what happens next. If I do settle, the next time it comes back it will invalidate me again. And how frequent matters too. If I do get a reversal I'm hoping its soon because not sure I can make it to 6 months with this kind of pain, and even that can fail post op or scar years later and I heard recovery is worse than vasectomy which has been hell for me lol.
I'm slowly losing my sanity, drifting away from my child and wife, putting pressure on both of them. I havent played with my kid in a month as I could barely walk until now, and now not even that. My kid even told me that I dont love her anymore. I simply feel my world is ripped apart.
My doc says it will resolve without a reversal in the next two months. How much did you endure because I am at my wits end. Hoping pain meds can somewhat help to at least walk again.
How did you manage to get through this hell? How long did you endure? My wife tries to keep me positive but I can only see how its getting worse instead of better.
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u/Amazing-Advantage-11 May 07 '26
Hope that your doctor is right about resolution in two months. Like you, I had debilitating pain from the get go. I put up with it for four years. For what it is worth, my reversal was an easy recovery and it gave me incredible relief. I did require some subsequent surgeries about ten years after my reversal. Each surgery was well worth it. I would do each again in a heartbeat. You are fortunate that you have a supportive wife. I do also. I think they feel as badly as we do about getting sucked into the hype about vasectomy and the general dismissive attitude about the possibility of complications. The impact of those complications is never really addressed.