Alright, I might end up scaring the crap out of yall.

So in September of '23, I got vasectomy #1. Honestly the most no nothing procedure. Urologist and I sat there and talked about deer hunting and deer biology. I was easily back at work the next day....honestly, didn't slow me down much. I DID exceed my required number of pops. December rolls around, sperm analysis #1, 33k. Technically in the safe range, but let's wait two months (booooo) and try again. February rolls around, surprise 195k. Uhh this is going the wrong way.

The decision is made to do a second vasectomy in a surgical center under general anesthesia. Week out, surgical center calls and it will be about $2,000 not counting the anesthesiologist, but the Urologist was going to forgo his fee. How nice. Crap, I can't afford that. Urologist agrees to do #2 as another office visit. So another co-pay which ends up confusing the hell out of the insurance company.

Since #1 went so well, I decided against the Valium and my wife driving me home, and just went with nitrous for #2. Nut #1 went perfectly fine. Then things went south. Apparently the lidocaine was from a different batch. When he did the "Hey can you feel this" and started cutting, not only could I feel the cutting, the damn lidocaine was lighting me up. There was no stick, sting, burn, and then numb. It was stick, sting, burn, oh crap this is really burning and oh sh-- yes I can feel you cutting. At which point in time I nearly black out, I initially thought due to huffing like hell on the nitrous, but the Urologist said later "no that was from then pain". He went on to state that in 20 plus years, he had never seen that reaction to the lidocaine and had never had a patient fight through the pain I did. Oh yippy. He sent the nurse literally running to get a vial from a different batch. Got stuck again, and it worked like it was supposed to. He finished up the procedure. He showed me where he had taken nearly 4 times the length they normally remove from the vas and yes, he cuaterized the hell out of the ends.

So about a week later, I developed a sperm granuloma about the size and shape to have a third testicle. That was a lovely major to mild ache for about a month, then went away. So about 2 weeks ago (yes, exceeded my number again for spurts), hit my 3 months and time to test again. Surprise, "we detect sperm in your sample". 155k. Somehow my sperm level is 5 times higher 3 months post vasectomy #2 than 3 months post vasectomy #1.

This is literally a Harvard train Urologist and considered on of the best urological surgeons in DFW. I am literally waiting on a call back as he is conferring with colleagues as he has never seen this happen. Yeah, I'm not volunteering to try a third time. But suspect they will want to study the matter.

I have no words. That just sucks.

I suspect however the doctor would now be afraid to go on a camping trip with you in bear country.

Sounds like you have a third nut hiding somewhere.

ursusguy said:

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Alright, I might end up scaring the crap out of yall.

So in September of '23, I got vasectomy #1. Honestly the most no nothing procedure. Urologist and I sat there and talked about deer hunting and deer biology. I was easily back at work the next day....honestly, didn't slow me down much. I DID exceed my required number of pops. December rolls around, sperm analysis #1, 33k. Technically in the safe range, but let's wait two months (booooo) and try again. February rolls around, surprise 195k. Uhh this is going the wrong way.

The decision is made to do a second vasectomy in a surgical center under general anesthesia. Week out, surgical center calls and it will be about $2,000 not counting the anesthesiologist, but the Urologist was going to forgo his fee. How nice. Crap, I can't afford that. Urologist agrees to do #2 as another office visit. So another co-pay which ends up confusing the hell out of the insurance company.

Since #1 went so well, I decided against the Valium and my wife driving me home, and just went with nitrous for #2. Nut #1 went perfectly fine. Then things went south. Apparently the lidocaine was from a different batch. When he did the "Hey can you feel this" and started cutting, not only could I feel the cutting, the damn lidocaine was lighting me up. There was no stick, sting, burn, and then numb. It was stick, sting, burn, oh crap this is really burning and oh sh-- yes I can feel you cutting. At which point in time I nearly black out, I initially thought due to huffing like hell on the nitrous, but the Urologist said later "no that was from then pain". He went on to state that in 20 plus years, he had never seen that reaction to the lidocaine and had never had a patient fight through the pain I did. Oh yippy. He sent the nurse literally running to get a vial from a different batch. Got stuck again, and it worked like it was supposed to. He finished up the procedure. He showed me where he had taken nearly 4 times the length they normally remove from the vas and yes, he cuaterized the hell out of the ends.

So about a week later, I developed a sperm granuloma about the size and shape to have a third testicle. That was a lovely major to mild ache for about a month, then went away. So about 2 weeks ago (yes, exceeded my number again for spurts), hit my 3 months and time to test again. Surprise, "we detect sperm in your sample". 155k. Somehow my sperm level is 5 times higher 3 months post vasectomy #2 than 3 months post vasectomy #1.

This is literally a Harvard train Urologist and considered on of the best urological surgeons in DFW. I am literally waiting on a call back as he is conferring with colleagues as he has never seen this happen. Yeah, I'm not volunteering to try a third time. But suspect they will want to study the matter.

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Is your name Abraham?

Here's my contribution to this thread.

I had a right inguinal hernia for at least nine years that I put off getting repaired. I put it off because I'm a chicken, not a fan of surgeries (or our healthcare in general), and figured living with it was not a horrible option and probably the path of least resistance. That all worked well enough until my wife found out about it earlier this year. Somehow she went eight years without noticing that I appeared to have three nuts, but sitting on the couch together one evening she heard the 'squish-squish' of me pushing it back in and flipped out pretty good.

She hounded me about it pretty often. I had a yearly Dr's checkup in August and decided I would at least ask about getting the hernia repaired. Sitting on the table as he asked, 'anything else?', I could barely get the words out, but somehow I did and got a referral for a consultation with a surgeon.

While researching robotic laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, I discovered a vasectomy could be done at the same time. The surgeon agreed it's simple and smart to knock them both out at the same time. They would cut the vas up near the bladder, all through the same incision, so need for another cut on the sack! The only downside is it's very difficult to reverse, should you ever decide to later.

So here I sit, four days post-op. The hernia repair was so much easier than I imagined. In around 8:00, home by noon, walked over a mile that evening, and went over to a neighbor's house that night to watch the high school football stream. Walked two miles the next day, and totally off all medication day three. Right now I feel like I can do whatever I want, minus the Dr's instructions of not lifting anything heavy for six weeks. TOTALLY worth it. I should have done this years ago.

So back to the vasectomy and relevance to this thread. Other than seeing it written on the paperwork, I cannot even tell I had it done.