It is now 6 weeks and a day since I had the snip.

I now have only very occasional discomfort when running – usually just at the start, when I still sometimes feel as if I need to urinate. When I am not running, and most of the time when I am, I cannot feel anything at all.

There is still some swelling inside the scrotum on the right vas deferens, where the cut was made.

I began running after two weeks, but felt soreness around the scrotum, and a feeling of needing to go to the lavatory. It was perhaps four weeks before the discomfort disappeared altogether during the day. I began cycling again after four weeks. Occasionally, if I sat on the saddle in the wrong way, I would get some aching – this seems to have disappeared now.