I had it done when I was 38 (6 years ago)
Here is a post I made back then..
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Me and the Wife decided that one of us should have a Vasectomy, and I volunteered because she was the one who (for very natural reasons) gave birth to our lovely daughters. So naturally it was my time to have some pain.
Not only a Vasectomy, because 3 years ago I found a lump on one of my testicles. It turned out it was a completely innocent cyst, that many men will have and it will never bother them.
But my cyst was bothering me, I had a lot of pain around my genetalia.. so the doctor told me that he could remove the cyst at the same time as he did the Vasectomy. It would be a simple surgery..
So fast forward to last week.. I went to the hospital and got checked in. It was going to be a simple surgery, where they made two small incisions at the top of my sack. There would not be much pain or discomfort.
After a long wait I finally went under surgery (I was his fifth patient doing surgery on that day). I went under full narcosis (don´t know the english word for that), and woke up 1 hour later.. I had ALOT of pain, so they gave me morphine and it helped.
Then I decided to take a look at the two small cuts the doctor had made.. but oh my.. there were no small cuts, just a big swollen nutsack with a big bandaid over it..
I was told to wait for the doctor to go his rounds and talk to him about the surgery. He came two hours later, and told he didn´t have time right now, I had to sleep at the hospital and speak with him the next morning. That was a bit strange because before surgery I was told that I could leave 3-4 hours after the surgery.
Next moning the doctor talked to me, for 1 minute.. he didn´t have time because he had lots of patients. He said everything looked fine, and I could return to work next week. And he would see me again in half a year. But I would feel pain because he had cut my nut sack up and fondled my testicles a lot during the surgery. It would feel like someone had kicked me 100 times in the balls. That was it, I was released from the hosptal and took a bus home.
I showed the wound to my wife. And she told me that she had never seen such an ugly surgery before.. she couldn´t believe this was done in 2013.
Today a week later I can see why she said that. It is a big ugly 5-10 cm. scar at the bottom of my nutsack. It goes all the way from one side to the other, and it looks like the doctor just rolled up the skin and sewed it together in a big hurry.
And the fucking pain man.. they told me that there would be a little pain for a short time. At first I had to take painkillers every fourth hour, that lasted for 4 days. It felt like somebody had kicked my balls 20 times. My left testicle (where the cyst was removed from) was 4 time the size of the other testicle and everything was black and swollen.
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But don't let me scare you..