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Documentary Filmmakers Want to Hear Your Vasectomy Story
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I had a vasectomy in 1999 to try and end reoccuring bouts of epididymitis and orchitis.
The vasectomy seemed to have gone OK till about a day after the procedure. My scrotum had swelled up to about the size of an orrange and was dark blue in color.
I went in to see a locum doctor and she told me that this was normal.
The next day my wife and I returned as by now I was experiencing quite a bit of pain. This time the locum sent me back to the surgeon who had done the procedure. Once there I was brought into surgery right away to remove a hematoma of the left hemi-scrotum. I remained in hospital for about 5 days untill the scrotum was properly drained.
For the next year or so, the left testicle seemed fixed in the scrotum not allowing the testicle to move freely as before. There also was a small hole in the scrotum that never healed.
While at an appointment with the urologist for another issue I mentioned the problem with the left testicle. He told me that everything was fine.
A week later I ended up in the local hospital with orchitis of the left testicle. After having been hospitalized at the local hospital for a week, the scrotum split open. I was transferred to a urologist at a city hospital.
Once we arrived at emergency, I was rushed into surgery for an emergency left orchiectomy due to a necrotic testicle and a staph infection in the scrotum. I woke up on my birthday missing my left testicle. When the urologist that had seen me earlier came in he said; "I heard it is your birthday, did you have a ball." I remained in an isolation room for the next 6 days. Every four hours I was put into a sitz bath to clean the open scrotum. The scrotum was packed with saline soaked gauze every 4 hours.
Once I got back home I ended up doing the same thing for about 2 months. After 6 weeks I returned to my job as a heavy duty mechanic shop foreman.
I have not had any infections of the right testicle since the vasectomy. Due to having had undescended testicles as a child, I ended up having an inguinal incarcerated hernia of the right side. This was repaired with mesh.
My lates problem was on September 21 of this year when I ended up with an abscess on top of the hernia scar. I ended up going in by ambulance to get the abscess exised and drained. I spent the next days on IV for antibiotics due to having had sepsis from the abscess.
I hope that this will be the last of the problems that I will have with that region of my body. I might need to have surgery to repair a fistula between my prostate and rectum. Hopefully I can do without that.
All the best.
Ron
I had a vasectomy in 1999 to try and end reoccuring bouts of epididymitis and orchitis.
The vasectomy seemed to have gone OK till about a day after the procedure. My scrotum had swelled up to about the size of an orrange and was dark blue in color.
I went in to see a locum doctor and she told me that this was normal.
The next day my wife and I returned as by now I was experiencing quite a bit of pain. This time the locum sent me back to the surgeon who had done the procedure. Once there I was brought into surgery right away to remove a hematoma of the left hemi-scrotum. I remained in hospital for about 5 days untill the scrotum was properly drained.
For the next year or so, the left testicle seemed fixed in the scrotum not allowing the testicle to move freely as before. There also was a small hole in the scrotum that never healed.
While at an appointment with the urologist for another issue I mentioned the problem with the left testicle. He told me that everything was fine.
A week later I ended up in the local hospital with orchitis of the left testicle. After having been hospitalized at the local hospital for a week, the scrotum split open. I was transferred to a urologist at a city hospital.
Once we arrived at emergency, I was rushed into surgery for an emergency left orchiectomy due to a necrotic testicle and a staph infection in the scrotum. I woke up on my birthday missing my left testicle. When the urologist that had seen me earlier came in he said; "I heard it is your birthday, did you have a ball." I remained in an isolation room for the next 6 days. Every four hours I was put into a sitz bath to clean the open scrotum. The scrotum was packed with saline soaked gauze every 4 hours.
Once I got back home I ended up doing the same thing for about 2 months. After 6 weeks I returned to my job as a heavy duty mechanic shop foreman.
I have not had any infections of the right testicle since the vasectomy. Due to having had undescended testicles as a child, I ended up having an inguinal incarcerated hernia of the right side. This was repaired with mesh.
My lates problem was on September 21 of this year when I ended up with an abscess on top of the hernia scar. I ended up going in by ambulance to get the abscess exised and drained. I spent the next days on IV for antibiotics due to having had sepsis from the abscess.
I hope that this will be the last of the problems that I will have with that region of my body. I might need to have surgery to repair a fistula between my prostate and rectum. Hopefully I can do without that.
All the best.
Ron
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