Vagabond127 wrote:What is the recovery timeline from day of surgery to first day of sex? Also, how long were pain pills needed after surgery. And on a scale of 1 to 10 what was the worst pain experienced? Finally, how effective were the pain meds?
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Days till sex - see below in my signature. Would probably have been sooner if I would have seen my wife any sooner, but this was the first time I saw her after the surgery.
This is highly depending on your doctor's protocol. Some say 'do it as soon as you want.' Pain and desire are only factors.
Some don't activate you till after 6+ weeks.
In my case, pain post op was horrible. I could not do shit for 2 weeks, only stay in bed.
After 3 weeks, pain was bad but not horrible, and after 4 weeks I was back to work etc again but with some restrictions in my mobility. Pain was however basically gone.
Painkillers helped, but during the first two weeks, even the Hydromorphone didn't completely kill the pain. It just made it bearable.
I did however have a much worse and longer lasting pain than average. I talked to a few other patients of my doc and they were no way close to my slow recovery.
However, I still think I was fairly quick to start pumping and having sex.
It was just that it felt like my scrotum would burst every time I stood up for the first 2 weeks.