Just had my surgery

40yo Just had my subinguinal varicocelectomy this past Wednesday. Had a grade 3 on both sides and had them both taken care of.

Going through the recovery process now. I have a two, 1 inch incisions that look gnarly. My scrotum looks like a massive grapefruit.

So far, most of the pain is at the incision sites, but my testicles do feel very achy and sensitive. I expected this, especially only being 4 days removed from surgery, but it feels almost no different than before surgery which worries me a little. Originally during my consults, my surgeon had said that there would be roughly a 75% chance that I would feel less/no pain after the surgery. But after the surgery when they came by at post op, they told me they did a lot of work and untangling, and that they’d be surprised if I didn’t feel a difference. They said recovery time should be 1-2 weeks and that I should be feeling a difference by week 3. And whatever I’m feeling by week 3 is going to be typical of what I’ll feel moving forward.

Has anyone else had that same experience and/or outcome? Right now just trying to ice and keep up with the pain relievers to try and give my body the best outcome.