VasectomyPain.Org

This site is a fully referenced, physician written resource about post-vasectomy pain. Chronic pain after vasectomy is the most common vasectomy side effect that can affect quality of life.

This website was created for three purposes:

1. To inform men and their partners of the risk of chronic genital pain after vasectomy and provide information about potential effects of this pain on quality of life and sexual function after vasectomy.
2. To offer information about treatment options for post-vasectomy pain and other support resources for sufferers of post-vasectomy complications. (Our support group is here: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/VasectomyPain/
   
3. To provide access to information about post-vasectomy pain and other vasectomy side effects from the medical literature and provide direct links to medical journal articles and vasectomy information websites.
4. To help publicize that the American Urological Association has completed an updated vasectomy guideline for 2012 specifically stating that vasectomy can cause chronic genital pain, that this pain can affect quality of life, and that this information should be made available to men considering the procedure during the informed consent process. The pdf of this guideline is available here: http://www.auanet.org/content/media/vasectomy.pdf

How can this site help?

If you develop significant pain symptoms after vasectomy, you may encounter some difficulty getting adequate treatment as the most severe forms of this problem are not common (around 2 to 6% of post-vasectomy patients). Few physicians are using a standard treatment protocol for this known post-operative complication of vasectomy. If you have post-vasectomy pain, seek out a physician with experience in this area if possible. Read the information on this site and review the links which augment the  information on this site. Please review the legal disclaimer before using this site.

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Despite the common view that vasectomy is completely safe and has no long-term side effects, several post-vasectomy surveys have confirmed that some men have persistent pain after vasectomy. These contemporary studies are published in peer reviewed medical journals and document this problem in a significant percentage of vasectomized men. While most men have trivial short-term pain, some men have pain that lasts a few months, and up to 15% of men still complain of testicular or other scrotal pain seven months after their vasectomy. (Leslie et al 2007).