Vasectomy recovery time?

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Husband is getting a vasectomy in about two weeks time. How long does it typically take for men to recover and get back to their normal routine? I'm wondering because he typically makes dinner and is usually on diaper duty and watches our kids during the morning times. I'm thinking we should plan to make enough dinner for left overs for a few days so he doesn't have to worry about cooking and planning to take the kids out as much as possible so he can relax. I've been getting mixed advice though. Some say their guy was able to get back to it in less than 24 hours and others said there was sulking on the couch for nearly 2 weeks. 😳

DH had his on a Friday. He took it easy over the weekend and was back at work and on normal parenting duties on Monday. It's really not a big deal. Couch for two weeks is massively taking the piss, frankly.

Agree with this. 48 hours max. Just not any strenuous gym activity like weightlifting for a week.

Agree! 48 hours max.
Recovery was pretty quick!
Only thing I did for a few more days after that was lifting the kids in and out of the bath.

Funny how I performed this task perfectly well after giving birth however!...

It was a big deal and was probably a month. The anaesthetic didn't work, there was a hole in his ball bag, and his balls were black. Although this isn't typical, I find a lot of people are dismissive of the op. Dh still has pain 10 years later, but luckily nothing he can't deal with.

A couples of days unless he gets an infection which is surprising common then anything up to a couple of weeks

The absolute key is having decent support for the balls for the next two weeks or so. A jock-strap is essential. If the operation goes well then he should be back in the ‘swing’ of things within twelve hours or so - just nothing overly strenuous.

It changes from man to man, but just realise that if you push to hard whilst he is still in recovery it could cause long term problems.

About 4 days to between snip and being back at work (office job). About a month to stop wearing tight pants and get back to the gym. He was mostly fine to be up and about the house with the kids within a couple of days, walking was what he struggled with most. He also got proper pain meds, so barring complications, there was no need to milk it.

This is so funny to me. I had my vagina ripped open through muscle, stitched up and I was up with a newborn in a wrap getting on with my day within 8 hours. Why are men so useless 😂

It’s 2 tiny cuts through the ballsack, why do they need days and days of recovery?!

Queijo · Today 07:30

This is so funny to me. I had my vagina ripped open through muscle, stitched up and I was up with a newborn in a wrap getting on with my day within 8 hours. Why are men so useless 😂

It’s 2 tiny cuts through the ballsack, why do they need days and days of recovery?!

so, by definition, any woman who doesn’t jump up after child birth and get on with their day is useless.
such an utterly myopic comment. Some men will be fine and dandy within hours. Others won’t. It depends on how well the surgery goes.

@ItsBeenOneWeek if a woman had an ‘op’ that included 2 tiny cuts and local aesthetic they’d be back at work the same day. Woman have major abdo surgery and are up and about the day after to care for newborns.

Obviously if there is complications I’m not expecting anyone to suffer to ‘prove’ themselves but it baffles me that men have tiny procedures and are treated like heroes.

A woman is not "useless" if she can't, but it is absolutely an expectation.
DH was also afforded adequate pain medication, whereas I was expected to manage an episiotomy and 2nd degree tears on paracetamol.
The men's can put up with being a bit sore for a while.

DH had it about 17 years ago. He was fine after a day. No jock strap was issued, he just wore pants rather than boxers. He’s not a malingering type though. DD2 was 1 and I was at home with two chn. He drove himself there and back and was home within an hour.

Was back to normal parenting within a couple of days but balls were tender for a week or so. Toddler + vasectomy balls = a lot of man screeches.
He had his in sept, had to send his sample in over Xmas and had to do another one as still swimmers in there. So just don’t get a false sense of security until you get the official all clear!

You seem to be deliberately mis-reading people’s comment so that you can start a fight. No-one here appears to be implying that men are heroes if they do bounce back after the operation quickly. I agree that there are men who behave in that way. as there are women who suggest that their experience must be the paradigm through which all women’s experience must be understood. “I was back to my day job within hours of child-birth:” so any woman who didn’t is ‘useless.’
the OP asks a reasonable question and the response is - as long as the operation goes well, around 48 hrs for recovery.

Yes the samples after. Still remember the last letter after 3 samples saying he was clinically infertile. He didn’t really like seeing that in print even though that was the intention. 😆

DH is not one to make a fuss but he actually found it quite hard going. Within two days he could potter around doing most things but he did struggle lifting heavy DC for a week or two (did his best when he needed to but still) and it was a good month before he was pain free. It's been nearly a year now and he still gets occasional pain, though it doesn't interfere with his day at all.

Why are some posters nasty about other people's pain. Thinking it's so 'funny' that men suffer pain after a vasectomy. Calling all me useless because the OP has asked for time guidance in planning stuff post op. Would a man write 'it's so funny' if a man asked for guidance in supporting his wife post birth?
The nasty poster didn't answer the OP's question so keen are they to squeeze in a dig at all men who decide to have a vasectomy.
Most of us at some point will need support following an operation, whether it is giving birth, a routine health procedure, cancer treatment etc. I think it is unkind to make fun of anyone who has a medical procedure and may need a degree of support afterwards

Thank you everyone for your help. @ItsBeenOneWeek I must agree. I think the question largely went well. I think it's sad that I expected someone to try to start something on this thread. I know not everyone has a supportive partner in their lives so I can't blame some people for being bitter about it but my husband is supportive and did pretty much everything for the first 3 months of our daughter's life after she was born because of my crippling depression so I take no issue with bending over backwards for him on this.

I completely understand the point here.

The point shouldn’t really be about which procedure is worse or who is a hero. The fact is that the NHS treats women like shit compared to men and this is a prime example.

My friend (a midwife) sent me the vastecomy recovery leaflet that actually advises men not to do any heavy cooking for a couple of days. Compare this to women who are left alone on postnatal wards to look after a baby after a c section because of shit visiting hours or partners not being allowe to help overnight, and are given paracetamol. I believe it’s things like this where the resentment comes from. But in its relevance to OP’s original question, DH should absolutely still be changing nappies.