[darklajid]

I answered the sibling: I explicitly asked the doctor about restrictions and was - again, explicitly - told there are none, as long as I feel okay and am reasonable. Running a marathon or karate competitions are probably out. I rode my bike with a dad with his daughter - we drove about 20km total, relaxed, with a nice spot to buy food and a beer. It wasn't "sport", it was "getting outside".

Honestly though? I totally didn't plan for that. I planned the trip, planned the operation. The operation's date was changed by my doctor, I didn't cancel the trip and just .. went along, because I felt fine.

Again: My doctor didn't list any limitations, even when I explicitly asked about it. But I certainly don't claim that people should jump on a saddle as soon as they've left the room. I merely pointed out what I happened to do on the next day to mock the 'the pain is unbearable' FUD.

Feel free to rest for a week. As far as I'm concerned and as far as I'm aware after talking to people that decided to take this step: There's no need to. There's no pain. A feeling ob numbness maybe (think strained ankle, but a week later) and obviously you have cuts that you don't want to strain.

But I had a lot of accidents with a razor or a kitchen knife (mind you, we're talking "face" and "fingers" now, right?) that were far worse than the vasectomy.