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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Oh stop.  You're literally told by the doctor to sit around because every single exertion you perform -- as minimal as it may be -- conveys some stress in the very area to which you've just had surgery on and can result in bleeding or other complications. I was told that lifting my 12 lb. cat was more exertion than I should be performing during my first week.
Following doctor's orders in this case will look exactly like 'milking it' because you're basically told to for fear of your f-cking balls not healing properly. |
My wife was more militant about me following the recovery instructions than I was. I hated that feeling of being useless. In hindsight, I honestly do think that how you follow the instructions in the first 72 hours may affect how your recovery is going for week 2-3.
IIRC, the first week recovery instructions read very similarly to c-section recovery. Don't lift more than 10-15 pounds, sit lots, no physical exertion, take meds, listen to body etc. The main difference was icing the location and don't jerk off. I thought that was ridiculous because it was a minor surgery vs c-section was a major surgery. Wife insisted though.
I was still occasionally getting winded by certain actions several weeks after the surgery. I thought I'd be totally fine by 10-15 days, but I think I was getting constant reminders up until that "up to 3 months to full heal" time frame.