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Post vasectomy testing to ensure your ejaculate is free from live sperm and that you are considered “sterile” is as important as the procedure itself.

Perhaps surprisingly, nothing very much. Provided that you do nothing once you get home, and very little physically for the next two days, you should have some discomfort that paracetamol will look after, and some minor bruising.

Traditionally, a vasectomy was performed with a scalpel.

Vasectomy is an operation, only performed on men, to prevent him having any more children.

There is about 5 seconds of minor discomfort, and the same again on the other side. After that – nothing.