Swelling after vasectomy
May 29th 2008adminPost vasectomy swelling and bruising
These two pictures were taken on day 5 of recovery. I seem to have quite a bit of swelling, bruising, and tenderness with my bilateral vasectomy, so I called the Dr., and he is having me come back in tomorrow just to double-check that everything is okay. I seem to have some abdominal pain also, so he wants to check that nothing went wrong. What do you think? Is this amount of bruising normal? The site of the incision (where the stitches are) is a little dark because he had to apply a small amount of silver nitrate to stop some surface bleeding after the procedure.
These pictures 5 days after a midline vasectomy demonstrate a more than average amount of bruising that is expected after a vasectomy. There is some swelling in the scrotum. There does not appear to be any active bleeding. The bruising seems to be improving as you can see the normal color changes that occur with resolution. Usually, the blood that is trapped within the skin is broken down into the basic components of hemoglobin which will cause the color to change from purple to green to yellow before finally fading. Consultation with your vasectomy surgeon is important in any situation where the healing process is out of the norm.
Chefp147 on 01 Jun 2008 at 6:46 am #
My scrotum is still swollen 8 days after my vasectomy. My scrotum is as big as a grapefruit!! Has anyone else experienced such extreme swelling?
Paul on 08 Dec 2009 at 7:01 pm #
I had my vasectomy on Dec 4th and today is dec 8th. Mine look alsmot the same as yours. I come on here to look to see if this is normal as well. My left side is the problem side. I have pain and there seems to be some sort of extra swelling at the site where the vas was cut. i called my doc today again to find out of this is normal and I was told to take Ibuprofen to help the swelling and to keep a tight jock strap on. When I do wear the jock strap almost all pain is gone but as soon as I take it off to go to the bath room or get a shower the pain is right back.
noe on 18 Dec 2009 at 4:51 pm #
i had vasectomy and dec 10 and today is dec 18. 8 days my scrotum is still swollen. i made appointment to see doctor today. but i may cancel and just wait to see how it goes in time hopefully it will get better. it doesn’t hurt much.
what did the doctors tell you guys? how do you feel now?
Jeff on 29 Dec 2009 at 8:09 pm #
I had mine done Dec 18th today is the 29th and my swelling is very high and pain level also very high jock strap or not. only laying back helps the pain. My bruising was very bad and the doc tells me that it will be 2 months for the swelling to go down. I can’t even go to work because of the pain level and the pills I take for it. Anyone else have the same?