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From Shawn:- Attached is a picture of my vasectomy incision. Post procedure 2 days. This incision does not look normal to me at all. I’m not experiencing any unusual pain but I am concerned with the way this incision looks. Can you please let me know if this seems normal. Thank you. The submitted picture [...]

Good evening, I had a vasectomy performed under local anesthetic on Tuesday 3rd March 2009. The photo below shows the scrotum on day 3 post procedure: (Note: My thumb is covering my penis in this photo. You can see the scar from the procedure in the upper right corner of my scrotum) The second photo [...]

From Anthony:- I found your site while trying to find out if my incision was healing normally. I did not see any pictures like mine so I have attached one you may add to your page (a great idea, thanks for starting and maintaining it!). I’m pretty sure this is considered “normal” healing because the [...]

From Dave:- First I would like to say that your site is very informative. Thank you. 2 1/2 days ago I had a hernia repaired & a vasectomy at the same time. During the pre operation consultation, the doctor said that it would be easy to cut the vas using the same incision as the [...]

I have added some new pictures today. One of Dr. Karpman’s patients has taken pictures of his recovery, and kindly allowed us to post them here. They are slightly out of focus, but they do clearly show the site of the incision. Also, another set of pictures has been submitted. These show an open ended [...]

Thank you for taking the time to look at my question. Today is Wednesday. Monday at 3:30 PM I had vasectomy. I am still experiencing a high level of discomfort which I think was expected but my concern is the location and specific pattern of my bruising. The bruising seems to follow straight up the [...]

My husband and I DESPERATELY need your advice. On January 16, my husband underwent a bilateral vasovasostomy, which, according to the urologist, went extremely well. Unfortunately, that was not the case. My husbands scrotum, IMMEDIATELY following surgery, started swelling, and turning dark purple, then nearly black. Please look at the photo’s I took of this. [...]

A new set of pictures showing unusual bruising and swelling on day 4 have been added.

A new series of pictures detailing a post vasectomy hematoma have been added to the website.

Just to let readers know that we have a new section with vasectomy pictures on this website. Firstly, one of Dr. Karpman’s patients has kindly consented to us posting pictures of his vasectomy incisions taken just after the procedure. Secondly, we have pictures of a midline incision vasectomy taken on day 1 just after the [...]