WOW reading some of these posts made me cringe. My experince was the opposite. My doc was pretty direct when I asked how soon I could get back to running and weightlifting after my snip. He said "The day after if you want your B*** to swell up to the point where I have to cut them off." Anyway - I took his advice - put my feet up for three days, complete with strategically placed bag of frozen peas, and got pampered by my wife (who seemed much more happy about the whole thing that I was.) Then I wore the special elastic gonad support (which I kept telling my self was a medical device and not some refugee from a fetish shop) for the requisite period and all was good. Even got a very affectionate wife for a few months. (I think she was worried I felt less manly and she was trying to reassure me, and who was I to stop her. ) Sorry - that was probably just a bit too much info.