I’m one of the unlucky ones who had years of pain afterward. I think the complication rate is underreported, by a lot. I went back and asked for help with the pain and they basically told me I was imagining it.
Also, it’s not really helpful to dismiss any accounts that don’t fit your narrative as “just a shit doc.” Even if that’s true, most laypeople can’t distinguish a shit doctor from a good one. FWIW, the doc that did mine had several interns watching and learning during my procedure, so apparently he was the best they had.
My doctor explained all this before the procedure that there was a risk of lasting pain, sometimes it doesn’t work, etc so it absolutely does seem like you had a shit doc.
Furthermore, the above poster said “vasectomies don’t go great as a simple procedure” which isn’t true in a majority of cases. Mine was also 15 minutes in the office and about a week and a half of tenderness. This was followed by a prescription for busting a nut as many times as I could to flush the pipes before the semen count test. Every medical procedure has some risk. The above poster is claiming something that isn’t true.
I didn’t say they didn’t explain the risk. I said I think the medical community is underreporting it. I’m glad you all had no problems. Obviously that’s not the universal experience, and being dismissive of the unlucky ones is fucked up.
What do you mean when you say “the medical community is underreporting it?” I acknowledged that my experience is not the universal experience, but also that my doctor was aware of this possibility and informed me of it before the procedure. The fact that yours didn’t along with disregarding your known symptom after the fact shows that they’re not very good at their job, but says nothing about the procedure itself nor what the other person is claiming to be universally true.
As per my last comment, my doctor did warn me about the risk. I don’t know why you keep reading the opposite.
Everyone else in this thread is going by their own anecdotal experience. Mine is that I complained about long term pain and they didn’t help me or record it. I.e., my complication went unreported. Why is my anecdotal experience less valid than yours?
Edit: for the sake of wrapping this up, even if “I got a shit doc” therefore what? It was my fault for not picking a better one? If you have a cogent point to make, get to it
You’re saying your doctor warned you about this risk, but then didn’t believe it was real when you were one of the unlucky ones to be affected by it? Again your gripe seems to be with the doctor not the procedure.
Someone attacks the least consequential part of my comment for apparently no reason other than to try to bait me, and I’m the asshole who needs to calm down. Okay
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I’m one of the unlucky ones who had years of pain afterward. I think the complication rate is underreported, by a lot. I went back and asked for help with the pain and they basically told me I was imagining it.
Also, it’s not really helpful to dismiss any accounts that don’t fit your narrative as “just a shit doc.” Even if that’s true, most laypeople can’t distinguish a shit doctor from a good one. FWIW, the doc that did mine had several interns watching and learning during my procedure, so apparently he was the best they had.
My doctor explained all this before the procedure that there was a risk of lasting pain, sometimes it doesn’t work, etc so it absolutely does seem like you had a shit doc.
Furthermore, the above poster said “vasectomies don’t go great as a simple procedure” which isn’t true in a majority of cases. Mine was also 15 minutes in the office and about a week and a half of tenderness. This was followed by a prescription for busting a nut as many times as I could to flush the pipes before the semen count test. Every medical procedure has some risk. The above poster is claiming something that isn’t true.
I didn’t say they didn’t explain the risk. I said I think the medical community is underreporting it. I’m glad you all had no problems. Obviously that’s not the universal experience, and being dismissive of the unlucky ones is fucked up.
What do you mean when you say “the medical community is underreporting it?” I acknowledged that my experience is not the universal experience, but also that my doctor was aware of this possibility and informed me of it before the procedure. The fact that yours didn’t along with disregarding your known symptom after the fact shows that they’re not very good at their job, but says nothing about the procedure itself nor what the other person is claiming to be universally true.
As per my last comment, my doctor did warn me about the risk. I don’t know why you keep reading the opposite.
Everyone else in this thread is going by their own anecdotal experience. Mine is that I complained about long term pain and they didn’t help me or record it. I.e., my complication went unreported. Why is my anecdotal experience less valid than yours?
Edit: for the sake of wrapping this up, even if “I got a shit doc” therefore what? It was my fault for not picking a better one? If you have a cogent point to make, get to it
I made my point quite clearly in my last comment.
You’re saying your doctor warned you about this risk, but then didn’t believe it was real when you were one of the unlucky ones to be affected by it? Again your gripe seems to be with the doctor not the procedure.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It can be so frustrating to hear a doctor tell you that over a year of pain is just your imagination.
Just cause he was teaching the interns doesn’t make him the best they have to just clear that up. That’s a massively off base assumption.
Did you have a point you were trying to make, or just trying to pick a fight today?
Dude, what the hell? Calm down. It’s just the Internet.
Someone attacks the least consequential part of my comment for apparently no reason other than to try to bait me, and I’m the asshole who needs to calm down. Okay