 When pain in the epididymides is the primary symptom, post-vasectomy pain syndrome is often described as congestive epididymitis.Any of the aforementioned pain conditions/syndromes can persist for years after vasectomy and affect as many as one in three vasectomized men.The range of PVPS pain can be mild/annoying to the less-likely extreme debilitating pain experienced by a smaller number of sufferers in this group.