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Post vasectomy complications
Thank you Dr. Towfigh for looking into this. Yes it is very complex and I cannot believe the changes that have happened in my body. I did not do any procedures for 6 months after the vasectomy to see what would happen and I started with the reversal just so they could see what was occurring. By the time I began 6 months later I had chronic bilateral testicle pain and numbness from basically the waist down to the feet bilateral to the calves at that time. Immediately after the surgery I did absolutely nothing but lay in bed for the first 6 days due to the hematoma with ice. the LFCN nerve went numb while I was lying flat on my back in bed and the pudendal symptoms began upon trying to get up out of bed. I have had all of my procedures done by Dr. Parakattil at the PUR clinic in florida who specializes in testicular pain and vasectomy complications. He has had other patients who developed the leg numbness and said it is from nerve crosstalk. The LFCN comes off the same nerve root as the genitofemoral, ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric so I can see the connection, but it doesn’t explain the pudendal type symptoms. I also had one doctor who believes I have deafferentation of the pudendal nerve from the hematoma due to a compression palsy. If I sleep without a pillow between my legs when I wake up my testicles swell to twice their normal size so there is something obviously triggering it. Like I said I did nothing but 2 sets of blocks for the first 6 months that relieved the pain and numbness before doing anything surgically so I don’t believe that the procedures done after the vasectomy contributed to my problems except maybe the cryoablation because I noticed atrophy over the right pubic bone about 2 months post op and after the procedure which was done on the spermatic cord I noticed bruising above my pubic bone. The original vasectomy was performed bilateral in the scrotum. During the procedure with only a local anaesthetic I did feel sharp pain and he had to renumb the area. The reversal was done midline anterior in scrotum and the spermatic cord denervation was performed at the ring. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks Dr. McVey
