Riding, a bike after a Vasectomy.

bigal.
bigal. Posts: 479
edited February 2010 in The bottom bracket
Any of you guys out there had this procedure and if so how quick were you back in the saddle?????? :? :?

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  • matthewbradford
    matthewbradford Posts: 44
    couple of weeks and you should be ok if its the non scalpel job. :(
  • Puzzler
    Puzzler Posts: 73
    Think it was two weeks at the most before I was out riding again.
    Not too much of a problem.
    Good luck though, glad mine's over with :shock:
  • flashman469
    flashman469 Posts: 102
    I was back running within a week and on the bike about 3 days later. However, for the duration of that week I did absolutely nothing but rest up, not even driving, which was the advice I was given by the nurse and doctor who carried out the job.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Your bike had a vasectomy ? :wink:
  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    Remove the crossbar/top tube first. :wink:
    Start with a budget, finish with a mortgage!
  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    How long before you could...you know, thingy...
    :wink:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Smokin Joe wrote:
    How long before you could...you know, thingy...
    :wink:

    You have to empty your resevoir, ahem, manually before getting back in the saddle properly. Just in case there are any active fellas swimming round, takes a couple of weeks I think. :wink:
  • bigal.
    bigal. Posts: 479
    Thanks for the replies. Looks like I will be off the bike for a couple of weeks and will save on kitchen roll as well.

    At least the kitchen roll is one positive.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Rode home after mine :lol:
  • toadthewetsprocket
    toadthewetsprocket Posts: 3
    I had mine 3 months ago and I am no where near being able to ride. Some people suffer from nerve damage, painful granulomas, a bad auto-immune response because of the destruction of the blood/sperm barrier. I am a cat 2 racer, and my season is totally destroyed because it, and I just hope to some day be able to ride my bike again.

    It is just not worth the risk. If you want to play roulette with your 2 balls, for what I would consider a minor benefit, good luck.

    As for performance, I can't say yet, although 3 months of bed rest and provided me with an extra 20 pounds of fat. Besides, your downhill skills will suffer, because you won't be a man anymore!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Nice to know me and the others who've commented above aren't men anymore :lol:

    Sounds like you need to grow yourself a new pair and stop whinging :wink:
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    If you call yourself any kind of a man you'll ride to and from the procedure. Then go out for
    a 10 mile or so run.
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    I read this post that you got a bike if you had a vasectomy :? :oops:

    Just like we did eh Dennis? :roll:
    The older I get the faster I was
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Stone Glider wrote:
    I read this post that you got a bike if you had a vasectomy :? :oops:

    Just like we did eh Dennis? :roll:

    I did intervals on the 30 mile ride home after my "V". Nothing to it.
  • toadthewetsprocket
    toadthewetsprocket Posts: 3
    The man thing was kind of a joke.

    All, I am saying is that everyone is different, and Post Vasectomy Pain Syndrome only effects about 7% of men. If my Uro had even hinted that life long chronic pain was even a possibility, I would not have gone through the procedure. There are some Uro's that inform their patients to wait at least 6 weeks, and the possibility exists that they may never ride again.

    If you were really able to ride, right after, I am guessing your body "adapted" to the change quickly and you probably had a relatively skilled doctor. Just count yourself lucky, because if you are a serious bike rider and you have PVPS, it ruins your life.

    I guess if you can ride your bike with jumper cables attached to the local power plant while the other end is clamped to your testicles, and still enjoy your ride, then you are definitely a stronger man than me, cause that is what it feels like.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I had all the risks explained to me beforehand and know that there is a risk (a friend is currently looking at having the snip and has been warned that he may have pain for the rest of his life due to scar tissue from a previous op too). It's a bit of an exaggeration to describe it as russian roulette with your balls though, all ops have their risks and it's then a case of balancing that against the benefits. In my case I felt the benefits definately outweighed the risks :wink:

    To be fair I wasn't cycling at the time so don't know how long it would have taken to
    get back on the bike but a think I would have been fine after a few weeks.
  • blackpanther
    blackpanther Posts: 221
    toadthewetsprocket wrote:
    The man thing was kind of a joke.

    All, I am saying is that everyone is different, and Post Vasectomy Pain Syndrome only effects about 7% of men. If my Uro had even hinted that life long chronic pain was even a possibility, I would not have gone through the procedure. There are some Uro's that inform their patients to wait at least 6 weeks, and the possibility exists that they may never ride again.

    If you were really able to ride, right after, I am guessing your body "adapted" to the change quickly and you probably had a relatively skilled doctor. Just count yourself lucky, because if you are a serious bike rider and you have PVPS, it ruins your life.

    I guess if you can ride your bike with jumper cables attached to the local power plant while the other end is clamped to your testicles, and still enjoy your ride, then you are definitely a stronger man than me, cause that is what it feels like.

    Man it sounds like you dun got the clap boy. No way should so much pain come from something so small. get you self back to the docs.
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    blackpanther wrote:
    toadthewetsprocket wrote:
    The man thing was kind of a joke.

    All, I am saying is that everyone is different, and Post Vasectomy Pain Syndrome only effects about 7% of men. If my Uro had even hinted that life long chronic pain was even a possibility, I would not have gone through the procedure. There are some Uro's that inform their patients to wait at least 6 weeks, and the possibility exists that they may never ride again.

    If you were really able to ride, right after, I am guessing your body "adapted" to the change quickly and you probably had a relatively skilled doctor. Just count yourself lucky, because if you are a serious bike rider and you have PVPS, it ruins your life.

    I guess if you can ride your bike with jumper cables attached to the local power plant while the other end is clamped to your testicles, and still enjoy your ride, then you are definitely a stronger man than me, cause that is what it feels like.

    Man it sounds like you dun got the clap boy. No way should so much pain come from something so small. get you self back to the docs.


    Contrary to my previous posts on this subject(I'm not really the man I claim to be). After my big V I didn't even consider riding for about 3 weeks. I wasn't in intense pain but sore enough that riding was out of the question.
  • toadthewetsprocket
    toadthewetsprocket Posts: 3
    I've been back to the doctor several times. First I was "just a slow healer", after 6 weeks the doctor said he would do exploratory surgery and start to remove the offending parts of my male anatomy. I declined, took the $9000 I had saved for a new mountain bike for 2010 and got a reversal. Now I am back to square one, but healing much faster than I did after vasectomy.

    I just hope I can ride a bike again some day, if not, it will probably kill me.

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