Lifting after Inguinal orchiectomy. (Time please)

[jako9999 (imported)]

Hi all I have looked at lots of different sites and they all say different things, I just realy want to know how long after a Inguinal orchiectomy (through the groin) it is before I can lift heavy weights I am now 4 weeks post Op and have an infection in the one scar and a clot in my scrotum and still in mild pain but unable to sit up and have to kind of purch off the end of the seat. I'm a paramedic and off work but have to lift people up so how long are we looking at before I should go back i'm in no rush but just to get an idea.

Thanks

[Eunuken (imported)]

My Dr. said 6 weeks.

[AtomicMush (imported)]

My doc held me back from lifting anything for over 6 weeks after removal. Because I had to have the hematoma removed, I was down another 10 weeks before the hole in my sack closed up. I'm 4 months post op now (the last one) and doing great.

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[nutme248 (imported)]

I have had 2 inguinal hernias repaired and was told both times that I should wait AT LEAST 6 (six) weeks before lifting anything heavy.

[baldwin92 (imported)]

I was same as nutme. However I returned to work after a week because at the time I had a desk job and did no lifting. I would also say it would be up to the individual. When the doctor says six weeks he giving a text book average, which means some sooner and some later. don't push it or you'll be out longer.

[xxy--eun (imported)]

What I remember i was not told by mu urologist DR to do anyting as u say.

But can tell u that after 2,5 week i had to go back to hospital to have the wonds

dryed.

I was done by bileteral orchectmy, ech side of the penis, not frpn the sac.

after little more then 2 week all was fine agina.

since then I have never had regret that i asked to be castrated.

I do still take Testogel 50 mg/day, have had NEBIDO for som month too, but prefere

testogel as well.

Can get hard and still can penetrate a woman.

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Oldbring class nov 2003

[janekane (imported)]

My orchiectomy, in 1986, was done late one day after work, in the manner of, pardon my sense of humor, "a radical vasectomy" (trans-scrotal, with separate incisions so as to leave the scrotal septum intact). I was at work the next day, working as though nothing of consequence had happened, lifting things as I had done the day before the orhchiectomy.

I had arranged to borrow one of my wife's panties as a way of having reasonable compression for the sterile gauze which kept just enough pressure on the surgical site as prevented any notable complications (like a hematoma).

When, a while later, out of respect for castration anxiety in non-eunuch-oriented men in public swimming pool shower rooms, I had prostheses installed, the university hospital physicians inserted the prostheses through the inguinal canals with a fairly high incision. Two panties from my wife for greater sterile gause compression, and I was at work the next day, lifting things as I had done the day before prosthesis installation.

When my body developed a foreign body reaction to the prostheses, last April, the prostheses were removed by the physicians using the radical vasectomy scars, and I, for the sake of gender identity, got some "boy shorts" which are really girl shorts in my mind, because they made no provision for space occupied by testicles or testicle prostheses no longer "there." Perhaps out of respect for paternalism, the physicians used an "athletic supporter" crammed with gauze, perhaps as though doing that would help me preserve my socially-mandated (and personally repugnant) sense of supposed masculinity.

I still have that athletic supporter, and, if I need to wear summer shorts for comfort, presume that I could scrunch a washcloth into a masculine bulge inside that athletic supporter to give some comfort to suffers of castration anxiety.

What I had going for me, regarding how much exercise to get following surgery, is a plausibly profound understanding of biology and surgery (which I obtained as a necessary aspect of becoming competent as a bioengineer).

When my colon was removed, as I became awake in the recovery room, I began to exercise. I understood that lack of exercise as soon as practical following surgery tended to lead to adhesions resulting from the surgical work becoming strong enough as to be very painful to break, and I set out to break all of the surgical adhesions before they became strong enough to be painful.

I had the colon surgery in the morning of one day, and, early in the morning of the next day, rang for a nurse and informed the nurse that I wanted to take a walk. Because I had been exercising, carefully, on the prior day after the surgery, I had no adhesions, and could stand up straight and without pain from standing. I put on my robe and slippers without needing nursing assistance, grabbed the IV pole (which had casters) and set out to walk. After I had walked some 20 feet, the nurse remarked, to me, "You are steady enough. I have other work to do," and I was on my own. That first time walking after my colectomy, much less than 24 hours after the colon surgery was finished, I walked somewhat more than a mile, which I knew by counting the number of 12 inch square ceiling tiles along the hallway and counting the number of traverses of the hallway.

As the saying goes, "don't try this at home," unless your familiarity with biology and surgery and surgical recovery is at par with mine at that time.

My graduate school physiology professors commented that people tend to exercise far too little following surgery, in terms of optimal surgical recovery, in part because of physician fear of improper malpractice lawsuits. I was unconcerned about such suits because I would never start one, regardless of circumstances.

My choices were those of a properly and professionally qualified and educated educated biologist/bioengineer with extensive hospital employee experience.

Is experience the best teacher, or is experience the only teacher?

Being over-careful is, to me, a vastly wiser choice than being over-careless.

How long before lifting heavy weights? Ask your body, it may know best what it can do. Pain may be your body telling you, "Not yet..."

[dingoaud (imported)]

I was told after i had my right romoved this way i have to be off work for 6 weeks

[Wellesley (imported)]

I actually like the listen to the body comment.

I found the inguinal was much easier to recover from than a scrotal surgery.

I was carrying my son soon after.

No complications though.

[nonuts (imported)]

Hi all I have looked at lots of different sites and they all say different things, I just realy want to know how long after a Inguinal orchiectomy (through the groin) it is before I can lift heavy weights I am now 4 weeks post Op and have an infection in the one scar and a clot in my scrotum and still in mild pain but unable to sit up and have to kind of purch off the end of the seat. I'm a paramedic and off work but have to lift people up so how long are we looking at before I should go back i'm in no rush but just to get an idea.

Thanks

I would suggest you see a doctor, and follow the advice given by them. Your situation could be unique, and no site or anyone here is going to know about that. Sometimes self medical treatment falls short, and well, we have to resort to someone who actually went to medical school, and has one of those useless degrees.