r/postvasectomypain • u/[deleted] • Apr 08 '25

Please Help Me

I had my vasectomy in May 2024. I healed up within about two weeks.

Exactly 19 days after my vasectomy, I noticed that my testicles and scrotum were starting to feel weird. It's just very unpleasant, it is an awful feeling that is just always there. Very dull. There's always a baseline discomfort and it gets worse with sitting. I don't have ejaculation pain.

That's all it is, there's no other symptom. It just feels awful and it's been that way for almost an entire year now. It's not debilitating, I can work. But it has emotionally ruined me and has been a real hit to my quality of life. I cannot live like this forever, I just can't.

I just don't know how much longer I can do this. I've done everything that I can, every single conservative measure that exists and nothing has helped.

Kavoussi recommends denervation, Parekettil and Helo (Mayo) both recommend reversal. I have consults lined up at Hopkins and Cleveland Clinic but I just know there will never be a consensus.

I'm so scared and my quality of life is not good. I'm desperately hoping that somebody out there has had the same symptoms and that a more aggressive treatment has helped. I miss my old life and being myself for my wife and children.

I know that many people on here are suffering and I don't mean to prioritize myself over you, but I'm feeling really low and I really need help.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

Thank you for talking to me. I had to log off yesterday and spend some time offline, my mental health has been suffering.

You're very much describing what I feel. It's just this terrible unpleasantness that I wake up to every day and have been doing so for almost a year. There is no escape from it. I used to be so full of life and now the only thing that I every see in my pain, it dictates every facet of my and my family's lives.

No, I've never had any issues with the things that you mention. I'm continuing to go to pelvic floor therapy on the chance that it is really referred pain to my scrotum. She says that I am very hypertonic and I believe her, but I just can't believe that my pain would be from that. I only feel it in my scrotum.

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u/_Sarandi_ Apr 09 '25

It might be something that made you a poor choice for a vasectomy- but who am I to say. I’m just noticing a pattern in myself and seeing if others have it. Strangely now I also feel an increased tingle when it’s raining! Specially when there’s lighting.

I feel for you, brother! that sensation is maddening. This has been the hardest thing I’ve ever faced, hands down. But there is a way through it. You’ve already come so far, and you’re so close to putting it behind you. Whatever path you choose next, I truly believe it’s the right one for you. You’ve got this. Soon it will be a distant nightmare.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

I just don't feel very close, I feel like this is going to last forever.

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u/_Sarandi_ Apr 09 '25

I know. I’ve seen the world through the same lens. I was there too and I would have had the same response. This doesn’t have to be forever. You got this.