I was expecting someone to explain why we need to cut dog's balls off but no one has given an answer. So here it is: a vasectomy helps prevent unwanted babies while neutering prevents unwanted hormones/babies.
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Also less risk for cancer and prostate issues. Latter is very typical in areas with lots of dogs, since there can be always at least one female in heat and that going on constantly can really stress male dogs out. Typical sign is peeing blood
Damn, that's the original?
"Where are my testicles summer"
FYI: vasectomies don't "go great" as a "simple procedure"..... Quite unpleasant actually. Not life threatening.....but still a really shit experience.
The laser ones? My understanding was that it was a 15 minute procedure.
Mild inconvenience at worst. Don't spread misinformation about this awesome procedure.
Sounds like you just had a shit doc doing yours.
I'm one of the unlucky ones who had years of pain afterward. I think the complication rate is underreported, by a lot. I went back and asked for help with the pain and they basically told me I was imagining it.
Also, it's not really helpful to dismiss any accounts that don't fit your narrative as "just a shit doc." Even if that's true, most laypeople can't distinguish a shit doctor from a good one. FWIW, the doc that did mine had several interns watching and learning during my procedure, so apparently he was the best they had.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It can be so frustrating to hear a doctor tell you that over a year of pain is just your imagination.
Just cause he was teaching the interns doesn't make him the best they have to just clear that up. That's a massively off base assumption.
Did you have a point you were trying to make, or just trying to pick a fight today?
Dude, what the hell? Calm down. It's just the Internet.
Someone attacks the least consequential part of my comment for apparently no reason other than to try to bait me, and I'm the asshole who needs to calm down. Okay
It's different for everyone. The pain experienced varies wildly and for different durations. Some people get aspirin after and others get an opiate. Some people get laughing gas before/during and others a valium or xanax. There's also a semi rare condition where you experience pain long after the procedure.
You guys got drugs before yours? My surgeon didn't even believe that I wasn't numb yet (I have a super high tolerance to anesthesia).
Vasectomy without anesthesia: -1/10
But, I basically did a speed run on the pain, because I didn't even need ibuprofen for the recovery.
That’s a medical complaint to your local licensing board.
Yeah, so during my procedure, my doctor either didn’t numb me up enough or whatever, but I said “I felt that.” right at the start and he said “Do you mean you felt some pressure?” To which I responded: “uh… no. You just put a clamp on my left testicle.”
At which point he said “Oh! Well, let’s get you numbed up a bit more then!” And they did.
That didn’t really stop my body from going into full freakout mode. My BP went up, temperature spiked, and I laid there trying to meditate while the nurses dealt with the physical symptoms.
It was so weird. I had a full physical reaction, but my emotional state was pretty solid, because I trusted their reaction and could tell they cared about my comfort.
Well, he's no longer in the country (he got married and moved), but I wouldn't file a complaint because I gave him the go ahead to proceed. After he finished my first testicle he offered to stop and numb me up more, but I told him to just finish up.
Luckily my pain tolerance is stupid high so it wasn't a huge deal, but his PA and nurse were visibly disturbed by it, lol.
I think it’s also a matter of when it was done. I had the old kind with needles and scalpels and it was pretty rough. The newer procedures have a few benefits:
- No-scalpel vasectomy: a small puncture hole is made instead of a cut. The vas deferens is located, pulled through the hole, cut, and sealed. This method usually does not require stitches because the puncture is so small.
- no-needle” vasectomy: uses a special device called a Madajet, which delivers a puff of local anesthetic through the skin using compressed air, numbing the area before the procedure begins
I would think either or both of these options would eliminate most if not all of the major discomfort/pain issues.
You're the one spreading misinformation. While yours might have gone smoothly, it's a medical procedure with real risks of complications, some of which are permanent, and not everyone has a good experience regardless the skills of their surgeon.
Nah, they stated,
FYI: vasectomies don’t “go great” as a “simple procedure”
with no further qualifications. That's misinformation. Many people have smooth and complication-free vasectomies; it's been a routine procedure for decades. Of course there are those who have unpleasant and complicated results, but that's not what they said. They just made the blanket statement that the procedures "don't go great". Perhaps they meant the procedures "can go poorly", but that isn't what they said.
You have me confused with someone else.
My mistake. My point is however unaffected.
News flash: lots of doctors out there are shit and it’s not like you exactly know how bad they’re gonna be yanking and slicing your junk until they’re in the act. Source: had a shit doc do my vasectomy.
I don't want to discount others' stories, I'm sure at least many of them are true. Every body is different and every doctor is different. It still seems to be an all-around safer approach to birth control with less frequent side effects than the methods there are for women, at least to my understanding.
My partner is on enough meds for other things that figuring out a hormone balancing routine on top of that seemed burdensome. When I got my gallbladder removed, I told them to just add on the vasectomy while I was out already.
I was a bit concerned when I woke up, as I thought it was supposed to be relatively painless and my crotch was killing me worse than the pain from the gallbladder stuff. Once I could stand up though, I figured out the supporter they put on my had been bunched up and was cutting off circulation or pinching a nerve or something like that, so once I fixed that, it was just mild discomfort.
It's nice not having to worry about the effectiveness of other birth control methods now. I found the whole concept very liberating. I'd whole-heartedly recommend it, but like any other operation, there is going to be a non-zero chance of risk. For most people, it's a mundane thing you will rapidly forget you even did it, but like anything else, the people who take the time to post about it are going to be the ones with negative experiences, so diy research can end up being a bit disproportionate.
The procedure was great, I was super serene with the laughing gas. The boys were really sensitive for a couple of weeks, any tap felt like a kick, but afterwards it's business as usual.
I'm glad it's not super easy to get nitrous anymore because I would get addicted pretty quickly lol
... you can buy it at the vape store
It was simple for me. 40 minutes after I was called out of the waiting room I already left the clinic and 0 pain and 0 complications. The two tests afterwards found no sperm, so it was a success. I would always recommend it, because it was so east and painless.
The recovery is painful but it's much simpler than, say, a hysterectomy, which is more invasive and has a longer recovery.
Mine was pretty alright. A little anxiety but then they turned on the gas and I was instantly super super high. The dentist has been holding out on us. Nitrous can get you significantly higher than they lead us to believe.
Fucking hell....they didn't give me gas! Just local anaesthetic injection (that wasn't not completely effective). Fucking NHS!! My procedure was pretty horrendous really.
Mine was also local. Felt nothing. You just got a shit doc.
NHS? Does that mean it was free of charge? I had local anaesthetics as well but it was very thoroughly checked if it was enough already. It wasn't so I got extra injections. Had to pay 600 € everything included though. Would recommend.
Same story, different healthcare provider. U.S. VA system for me.
They also used local which I have somewhat of a natural resistance to. Mid procedure I felt something and made them aware and they hit me with another dose. He did comment that it was "a lot" of local.
Well at least I was not the only one
Compare it to an orchiectomy and suddenly it's peachy
It takes balls.
No, that would be an orchiectomy.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that you are a transgender woman and you want to get an orchidectomy – that's an operation to remove your testicles. In the USA they say "orchiectomy", but here [in the UK] we say "orchidectomy", because the whole point is that you keep the "D".
One of my favourite jokes from Philosophy Tube 😃
Is this loss?
Loss of balls
would be funny but probably isn't