Viewing entries tagged with 'post vasectomy pain syndrome'
"It's not in my head - this pain is real!"
Pain after vasectomy is a rare and devastating side effect from a vasectomy. Almost without exception, every single vasectomy pain patient whom I talk with tells me how their doctors repeatedly told them that their pain was "not real", was really "psychosomatic" or was from an emotional need for attention or a "drug-seeking behavior." In essence, they were being told that their pain was not really there and that in fact they were crazy as there were no physical causes of pain after vasectomy. There are many post-vasectomy pain patients that are even told that Post Vasectomy Pain Syndrome (PVPS) doesn't exist, and so go far as to tell the patient that they have never heard of such a syndrome. Yet this syndrome of severe or chronic pain after vasectomy is well known and clearly described in the medical literature, and has been so for many years. The problem is that the doctor you are seeing may not be aware or educated on this rare complication of vasectomy. When I counsel patients about vasectomy, I am always certain to explain in my review of potential complications that PVPS does exist. I explain further to this patient considering a vasectomy than when this pain after vasectomy occurs, it can be severe, unrelenting and life-destroying.
