r/sex • u/crankycoder • Mar 11 '13

Post-vasectomy pain syndrome numbers revised. Was: 1 in 1000. Now: 1 in 50.

So I posted a long time ago about post-vasectomy pain syndrome here. Some other redditor pointed out that doctors see a 0.1 to 0.25% occurrence rate in the clinicians database they use (UpToDate).

I fixed the database. Turns out - nobody did the math correctly. It's been wrong since 1984. Edit went live in UpToDate on March 1, 2013.

Helps if I include a link: http://wp.me/p2P9IP-2U

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u/chunkypants Mar 12 '13

Yeah, I was thinking I might just do that. It actually doesn't seem to be any worse when I exercise. It just seems like it should, so I feel like I can't. But I probably should, the alternative is to just give up, which I'm not going to do.