Use of ice is generally meant to supress swelling and hematoma developing right after surgery. It is good to keep ice on the area for several hours and move around as little as possible. For pain it is best to use some pain killer.

If you choose not to use painkillers, your body will adjust after some time to pain. At least that is my experience after circumcision. I didn't take any painkillers after. When anesthetics worn off the pain grew guite to my limit I could bear. But after an hour or two it started to subsidise. By the end of day there was no pain at all. Only itchy feeling.

With castration the pain is different of course. But the logic should be valid. the question is, if you could endure this amount of pain for longer period.

Milkman (imported) wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:47 am For those of you who have been surgically castrated, how long is the healing time? For example is there pain for two weeks afterward , or maybe a month? I know some here have done a very dangerous band and slice. i would never do that , but how long did those who castrated themselves by this method take to heal completely.. how long were you in pain ?

I was in pain when the local anesthetic initially wore off. However, there was no pain following the taking of one pain killer tablet at that point. A few hours later I was up and walking about outside for several blocks. I drove 200km to my home the following day and returned to work the day after that, a bit less than 48 hours following castration. Total healing took ~3 weeks.