A father who opted to have a vasectomy is suing his private doctor after being left in ‘constant pain’ which ‘no one warned him about’.

Marc Ollosson, 50, wants £200,000 from his doctor because he claims he was not told ‘of the one-in-20 risk of lasting pain’ following the procedure.

He says he would not have had the operation – which he expected to be a ‘safe simple snip snip’ – had he been warned of the risk.

Marc Ollosson (Picture: Champion News)

Soon after the operation in 2013, the care support worker found himself in agony, which he told the High Court had ruined the quality of his life.




He says that he has to use methadone as a painkiller, which has meant that he has had to give up alcohol.

‘Sex is painful and work difficult’, while he has also had to ‘give up riding his motorcycle’, his barrister, Julian Matthews, told judge Mr Justice Stewart.

Mr Ollosson, from Dussindale, near Norwich, told the judge: ‘Vasectomy was always to me a “safe, simple snip-snip”.

Around one-in-20 develop lasting post-op testicle pain, with a small number experiencing severe symptoms like Mr Ollosson, said his barrister.

Marc Ollosson outside London’s High Court with his wife (Picture: Champion News)

Mr Ollosson decided on the vasectomy due to problems he and his wife, Karen, had with other birth control measures, the court heard.

He was put in touch with Dr Alan Lee, of the Drayton Vasectomy Service, at the Drayton and St Faith’s Medical Practice, near Norwich, by his GP.

After undergoing the operation in November 2013, he found himself with ‘persistent, chronic disabling pain’ afterwards, said Mr Matthews.

Mr Ollosson said the first he had heard of ‘chronic post-vasectomy pain’ was when he was diagnosed by a urologist.

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The pain meant he was ‘unable to work for 12 months over three years’ and feeling ‘down, depressed and tired’, as well as suffering problems with his sex drive.

Mr Matthews claimed Mr Ollosson was not given adequate information about the risks of the operation to enable him to decide whether to run that risk.

Dr Lee denies liability for Mr Ollosson’s injury and says that was provided with the necessary information to give informed consent to the operation.

He was provided with a booklet setting out information about the procedure and signed a form to confirm he was consenting to the surgery, said the doctor’s barrister, Nadia Whittaker.

The hearing continues.

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