Has anyone gotten back in the water too soon after a vasectomy? Anyone have to ease back into practice? Anyone jump back into practice full throttle after X days?
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I will follow my doctors advice over any advice in this thread. I am trying to figure out if I should be more cautious than my Dr. advises because of his inexperience with competitive swimmers.
I think the boys still swim, but they have no where to go.
Q isn't castrated. At least not physically.
Which brings me to my renewed quest (with perhaps some new recruits to join me):
The establishment of a 3rd Gender Category, wherein guys like me and other psychologically castrated male swimmers can compete against manly women (though not as manly as CreamPuff) and have a better chance of making the Top 10, Intermediate Hormonal Division.
Q, are you with me? How about you, Mr. Poopy Pants?
I think this is definitely an idea whose time has come.
Plus we want our own lockerroom.
Maybe, now that I think of it, CreamPuff does qualify after all.
Has anyone gotten back in the water too soon after a vasectomy? Anyone have to ease back into practice? Anyone jump back into practice full throttle after X days?
If anyone wants to remain semi anonymous, you can PM me or email me and I will post your comments, or keep them to myself if that is what you prefer.
I will follow my doctors advice over any advice in this thread. I am trying to figure out if I should be more cautious than my Dr. advises because of his inexperience with competitive swimmers.
Stick with your Dr's. advice. I got in one or two days early (I think it was 2 days post-op) and experienced unanticipated "coloring" changes and swelling in, well, in the general area where the cutting occured. Cost me an additional couple of days and it's not comfortable. The high point was the prep-nurse. :blush:
You can take it from there, Jim T.
I had mine done on a Friday and swam my first practice on Monday night. I passed on the Saturday morning swim meet that weekend (no way that could have been done unless I was in a Jeff Farrell Olympic Trials type of situation). I don't recall any problems from swimming that Monday. There may have been just a little discomfort, but it wasn't enough to stop me from swimming.
One thing for sure is that your boys wont be swimming...
Careful, your boys may still be swimming for up to 6 weeks. My neighbor had child #4 b/c he thought his boys weren't active. Oops! She made him sleep on the couch for 6 months after that joyous news.
Having been an eyewitness to this particular surgical procedure, I'd advise you to tell your doctor not to skimp on the little staple thingies after he severs the vas deferens. The key to a successful recovery seems to be lots of icing of the surgical area. Rent some movies and make sure you have a few bags of frozen peas for the evening.
Here is the Catch-22 (look it up) for this procedure. You are told by others, that you won't ever get it up again, but if you get it up during some time after the surgery, then you will hurt; so you try not to get it up, but at the same time you wish to get it up to see if it still will be able to get up....
Here is the Catch-22 (look it up) for this procedure. You are told by others, that you won't ever get it up again, but if you get it up during some time after the surgery, then you will hurt; so you try not to get it up, but at the same time you wish to get it up to see if it still will be able to get up....
Catch-22, a great movie!
As for what "others" have said, none of it is true...not even the hurt part.
