Walking boosts blood flow and helps prevent constipation. Avoid strenuous activities, such as bicycle riding, jogging, weight lifting, or aerobic exercise, for about 1 week after the surgery or until the doctor says it is okay.
The First 48 Hours
Stay off your feet as much as possible for the first 7 days. Use an ice pack on your scrotum for 20 minutes every hour (except when you're sleeping) for the first two to three days after your vasectomy.
You'll need to rest for 24 hours after surgery. You can probably do light activity after two or three days, but you'll need to avoid sports, lifting and heavy work for a week or so. Overdoing it could cause pain or bleeding inside the scrotum.
The day after your vasectomy, it's OK to take gentle walks and drive around. The next day after that, it's OK to start back to the gym, sex, work, etc, just take it easy. Wait three or four days for vigorous sports like basketball or tennis.
THE FIRST DAYS OF RECOVERY: KICK BACK AND RELAX
The first few days after a vasectomy are all about rest. Even if you feel good, don't do anything even remotely close to strenuous activity. You should spend most of the first 48 hours post-surgery sitting down, icing your scrotum with your feet elevated.
Ejaculating too soon after getting a vasectomy could open your incisions and increase your risk of infection and other complications. Wait until you don't have any scrotal pain or swelling around your incision site before engaging in sexual activity. This may mean waiting about one week after your vasectomy.
Let your partner lay down as much as possible for two to three days after the procedure. Help with tasks that involve heavy lifting or strenuous movement for about a week after the procedure. Provide your partner with lots of ice or bags of frozen peas to ease the post-surgery pain. Encourage your partner take it easy.
As with any period of recovery, rest is crucial. For the first few days after your procedure, you should be resting as much as possible. Try lying down with your feet raised—this will help increase circulation and promote healing.
The life cycle of sperm is 63 days. 80% of men will be sterile after 15 ejaculations or 6 weeks after a vasectomy. By 10 weeks, 85% of men will have no sperm in the ejaculate. Therefore, a safe time period to say would be approximately 3 months (12 weeks) after vasectomy with about 20 ejaculations.
However, the average age for a man to get a vasectomy is about 35 years old. Most men also have at least one child before opting for a vasectomy. While vasectomies can be reversed in the future, it can get expensive and won't guarantee that you'll be successful in conceiving a child. Reversals do not always work.
Medicare helps contribute to the total costs of most medical services in Australia including vasectomies. So yes! Vasectomies are covered by Medicare. Medicare was created in 1975 and all Australian citizens are eligible to enroll in Medicare.
March is the busiest month of the year for vasectomies. Approximately 500,000 men in the United States get vasectomies each year, and a large percent of them get scheduled for the beginning of March.
You'll get local anesthesia to numb your testicles, so you shouldn't feel much during the procedure. You may also get medicine to help you relax. You may have a little discomfort when you get the numbing shot or when the vas deferens tubes are handled during the procedure. But overall, you shouldn't feel too much pain.
You may have some pain in your groin for 1 week after the surgery. Your scrotum may be bruised and swollen. This will go away in 1 to 2 weeks. You will probably be able to return to work or your normal routine on the day after surgery.
Doctors will perform a checkup 6–12 weeks after the vasectomy. They will assess whether the wound has recovered and organize a sperm count. It is best to wait until this checkup before having unprotected sex again.
Post-vasectomy pain syndrome (PVPS) is diagnosis of exclusion, and may be caused by direct damage to spermatic cord structures, compression of nerves in the spermatic cord via inflammation, back pressure from epididymal congestion, and perineural fibrosis.
Alcohol can increase the likelihood of complications, and is best avoided for 48 hours before and after vasectomy.
The quick answer is: yes, a vasectomy will probably hurt a little bit. But – and it has to be said – not as much as childbirth. Never as much as childbirth.
You will be awake for the procedure. With conscious sedation, you will receive medications to sedate you and relieve any anxiety during the procedure in addition to receiving local anesthesia directly to your scrotum. Regardless of the anesthesia, the procedure is the same.
Testing is the Key to Preventing Pregnancy after Vasectomy
The usual recommendation is to perform two (2) tests within 2-4 months following the procedure, and then once a year thereafter. The results of both tests should be negative.
A. It usually takes about 15-20 ejaculations after the operation before you flush out any remaining sperm from each vas deferens. You should use an alternative method of contraception during this time.
$1,050 with Medicare. MSI no scalpel, open ended technique. Choice of local anaesthetic or IV sedation. Procedure performed by MSI Australia vasectomy specialist.
The procedure takes approximately 15 to 30 minutes. A vasectomy can be done using a scalpel or a no-scalpel technique. Using the scalpel technique, a small cut of one to 2 cm is made on each side of the scrotum to access the tubes that carry sperm out of the testicles.