Vasectomies complications

Visectomy (vasectamy) complications

A vasectomy is a surgery, and all surgeries normally also involve some risk. The risk of getting a serious problem because of the vasectomy operation is very low. Most minor complications from the surgery can be treated with a couple of pain killers and some ice. Problems such as swelling, tenderness of the scrotum, bruising and general minor pain may occur within the one or two weeks after the vasectomy but other than that it is a fairly low risk operation with few reported complications in most cases.

There are some significant complications that may occur but these are rare:

• An infection of the incisions or inside the scrotum.
• Swelling or bruising as a reaction of bleeding under the skin.
• Sperm Granulomas, small lumps of sperm that leak into the surrounding tissue. In some cases this is treated with a surgery.
• Long-term complications are very rare. Pain from the testicles is common 1 to 2 weeks after the operation but there are reports of much a much longer time of pain. Most of these pains can be cured by anti-inflammatory drugs.

You should contact your doctor if there are any signs like the following after your vascetomy:

• Fever
• Swelling that does not get down but are getting worse
• If you can not urinate as usual
• If you can feel a marble-sized lump in your scrotum
• Bleeding that won’t stop

There has been a long standing debate over the years regarding the subject of long term complications resulting from vasectomies. Most of the available research (although not much on the long term effects) show no links between visectomy (vasectemy) and other problems developing later in life.

A small fraction of men gets the PVP (Post Vasectomy Pain) after a vascetomy operation, which is more of a summarized syndrome than a particular disease or condition - the sum of many long term problems with a vasectamy. Because of this summation of syndromes, the definition of PVP is not crystal clear and there are different percentages reported of the occurance and definitions vary as stated in many studies. The problems can include bruising or swelling, general testicular pain etc.

Vascetomy long and short term effects

Long term complications should not be confused with (normal) short term effects like the first period of swelling and bruising which can last for a couple of weeks after the vascetomy - there can also be some blood when ejaculating or lumps (granulomas) in the scrotum which typically disappear within the first year of the vesectomy surgery.

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