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The Big V

MrTimms

Ken Catchpole (46)
Staff member
Reg, I have enjoyed this thread all over again.
Take the advice of Timmsy - DO WHAT THE FUCK THEY TELL YOU IN RECOVERY.
In all seriousness, all the best mate, you breeze through it.
2 final words.
Frozen. Peas.

Funny stuff.

But Cyclo is right, do what I say. And the bit about frozen peas, buy a couple of packs and rotate through them, while one is on the boys the other is refreezing.


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Gagger

Nick Farr-Jones (63)
Staff member
Cyclo, the job you did on me at the Lord Nelson the other night after the G&GR drinks is coming unstuck, I think
 

RugbyReg

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
quick question.

How long does the pain last? Its been a week and them jewells are still a little painful.
 

MrTimms

Ken Catchpole (46)
Staff member
Can't help you there Reg, after my adventure, it took well over a month or more.
 

RugbyReg

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
I really should add my story here as it was an interesting one. I'll save it for when I am not on my mobile but will get the juices flowing by informing you of my surgeon's name. Dr Beaver.
 
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spooony

Guest
When I was a senior in high school we had to make a video and had to have blood packs. The best blood packs are made from condoms. We had the following on the checkout counter: 1 Box of Trojan Magnum condoms, 2 Bottles of Corn oil, 4 Bottles of red food color, 2 Super 8 video cassettes and 1 Roll of duct tape. I have never before gotten weirder looks.
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
Staff member
I really should add my story here as it was an interesting one. I'll save it for when I am not on my mobile but will get the juices flowing by informing you of my surgeon's name. Dr Beaver.
Is there something you're not telling us about yourself, Regina?
 

suckerforred

Chilla Wilson (44)
As a female of the species let me congraduate you for this thread. First as an informed discussion (some more informed then others), and second for the guys among you to have the guts to step up and take responsibility.

Pfitzy - I had a similar experience with Implanon as you poor wife, and trust me from her side it is not plesent either.

Just count yourselves lucky that you can make the decision regarding this aspect of contraception. Being a woman who does not want children (never has and that is another big long thread), I am not 'allowed' to have surgical/permanent intervention as I am not quite old enough (still of child bearing age), but to old to safely have children (work that one out), and, wait for it, am not married.

Anyhow - RugbyReg, where's your story?
 
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spooony

Guest
vasectomy-DIY-2_t_330.jpg


Here's the DIY method step for step
http://www.vasectomy-information.com/pages/diyvas.htm
 

RugbyReg

Rocky Elsom (76)
Staff member
Ok, so I went in on a Friday arvo, drove myself as they said i'd be able to drive home ok.

The shaving experience, I must say, the night before was ..... interesting. Went through a HELL of a lot of shaving cream.

Anyway, back to the procedure. I must say it was a little off-putting laying on a table in a little suburban doctor's theatre, with my prickly junk out as a couple of middle age nurses talked about what their children were up to that weekend. Nothing like how I imagined. The fact it was one of the nurses first time was somewhat offputting. She was knowledgeable enough to ask to the other nurse that "after the needle, the doctor will want to wait 10 or 15 minutes won't he?" To which the reply was "No, Dr Beaver likes to get going straight away".

HANG ON! DON'T I GET A SAY IN THIS? LET'S NOT RUSH THIS THING!

Anyway, so Dr Beaver comes in and gets started straight away. He's a Reds fans, knows I work for the QRU and is very chatty. I am a little less chatty as, surprise surprise, the needle really hasn't taken effect just yet. But he continues, and the first side is relatively straight forward. He's still chatting away and moves to the 2nd side. Chatting, chatting, chatting...commenting..... murmuring....silent.....I'll let the experts talk of the procedure, but basically he couldn't get a could grip on my vas deferens and it kept slipping out, preventing him from sealing it, or whatever. He had to making additional incisions to get to other areas. Meanwhile, I'm sweating up a storm and every tug I'm feeling all the way up my gut.

Eventually he finishes and he informs me "now I'm not entirely sure that 2nd one was the vas deferens, so I've taken a sample and will send it away for testing"!

ok.....

So I drive my shitty little manual car home, cringing every time I change gears. I get home, parking horribly, crawl up to bed and collapse calling for the first lot of frozen peas. The swelling actually stayed for quite a while, particularly on the 2nd side. Then it went down again, and then came back worse than before. I was packing a cricket ball down there, it shape, colour and feel.

Move forward 3 months later, and the required 12 (or so) 'releases', I provided another sample (which is a story all in itself) and have just found out that the results are inconclusive. Need to provide another sample in a month, after a few more 'releases'.

Look, I know this is a lot of TMI, but hey, it's a vasectomy thread. What do you expect?
 

Scarfman

Knitter of the Scarf
The first "release" isn't a whole lot of fun, though, is it? It's a bit like seeing if you can make your balls explode.

I was the same as you, Reg, thinking that something must have gone wrong because it was hurting for longer than they said. But then the pain eventually went away.
 

Jnor

Peter Fenwicke (45)
Jesus I hope they've found a better way tto do this when I get to experience it :eek:
 

sonny crockett

Allen Oxlade (6)
A notable Brisbane Premier Grade or first grade hooker then and a sometime rep for Qld had his big V done on a Thursday morning, trained that night, played for his club that Saturday. His nuts looked pretty ordinary after training on Thursday night, and I think he was beyond the pain by Saturday. Tough guy though. A builder I know had his done on a Friday morning and then laid 8 inche (quite heavy) Besser Blocks all day that Friday. Whipped his nuts out in the afternoon, looked like he had been kicked by several horses, never have I seen a darker shade of black.
 

cyclopath

George Smith (75)
Staff member
As the performer of many,many vasectomies, nothing is a more sure fire way to end up with a couple of eggplants in the pants than IGNORING THE ADVICE ABOUT TAKING IT EASY FOR A FEW DAYS AFTERWARDS AND AVOIDING STRENUOUS ACTIVITY. I tell all my patients a dozen times before the procedure, so if it happens, and that is why, they find it hard to say they weren't warned.
Reg's story is why I don't do them under local anaesthetic usually. I have not had any significant problems since making that change.
 

mark_s

Chilla Wilson (44)
Jesus I hope they've found a better way tto do this when I get to experience it :eek:
I am a broken record on this, there are other long term options which (so far) are proving effective for us - I have posted on one of them earlier in this thread. No one is getting a knife near my nuts while I am conscious, but good luck to all those who are braver than I.
 
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