Vasectomy

[Sara_H]

My OH had a very bad vasectomy experience (about twelve years ago). His was done by his GP at the practice - OH had some sedation, but clearly remembers some instruments being dropped on the floor, picked up and used.
He did get an infection, which caused alot of pain. He also spotted what he thought was a stich poking out one day and gave it a pull - it turned out to be a part of his plumbing!
Now his two veg are huge and full of lumpy scar tissue, he still gets lots of shooting pains, which have been attributed to the vasectomy.
Bad news all round. I wouldn't recomend it. Not least as I'm a grumpy member of the second wives club and feel deprived of the extra children I long for

 

[Andrew_Culture]

. He also spotted what he thought was a stich poking out one day and gave it a pull - it turned out to be a part of his plumbing!

Gah, that beats my wandering plum story!

 

[Drago]

Thank god my space hoppers survived in good order!

 

[Sara_H]

Gah, that beats my wandering plum story!

Yes, apparently it smarted a bit!

We have nothing positive to say about vasectomies at our house!

 

[jay clock]

My OH had a very bad vasectomy experience (about twelve years ago). His was done by his GP at the practice - OH had some sedation, but clearly remembers some instruments being dropped on the floor, picked up and used.
He did get an infection, which caused alot of pain. He also spotted what he thought was a stich poking out one day and gave it a pull - it turned out to be a part of his plumbing!
Now his two veg are huge and full of lumpy scar tissue, he still gets lots of shooting pains, which have been attributed to the vasectomy.
Bad news all round. I wouldn't recomend it. Not least as I'm a grumpy member of the second wives club and feel deprived of the extra children I long for

was going to say Bollox! For every bad news story there are dozens of good ones. Mine was 20 years back and went fine. A massive sex life improvement in my view

 

[Andrew_Culture]

. A massive sex life improvement in my view

Sensation or practicality?

 

[jay clock]

Practicality!! "Fit and forget" in style. I already had 3 kids at 32 and knew that even if I got divorced I would not want more.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Practicality!! "Fit and forget" in style. I already had 3 kids at 32 and knew that even if I got divorced I would not want more.

Fair enough!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

We're in the slightly weird position that it took eight years to spawn the first youngling, but we're being cautious now because we've heard anecdotally that when couples have a few issues conceiving once the fertility ball starts rolling it gathers momentum quite swiftly.

I don't have a problem discussing fertility publicly - I wish more people did discuss it, then it wouldn't seem like such a dark mystery! I even published my fertility results in a magazine, which was a step too far, I realised this when publication day happened on the same day as a publishing expo and I had members of the public discussing my results with me while I was horribly hungover.

 

[Sara_H]

The info about the sex life came from the medics when we looking into reversal.

Apparently a lot of men have it reversed because of the deterioration in their sex life and also because of continuing pain.

 

[Sara_H]

Practicality!! "Fit and forget" in style. I already had 3 kids at 32 and knew that even if I got divorced I would not want more.

Thats what OH half thought - til he met me, now regrets taking such a drastic measure.

 

[fossyant]

Don't do it fellas, theres lots of evidence that a vasectomy can affect your sex life adversely.

Tell me about it. Too flippin late now. Not got all clear yet, but I'm in too much pain to want any. You have to pay for reversals in the UK, and it's not going to happen - think there is too much mess in there now anyway.

Seriously considering getting rid of the lot, but that causes other issues. Totally hissed off it's affecting my cycling so much. I was glad to get off the bike last night, very painful.

 

[fossyant]

The stats are as high as 1 in 10. The NHS only come up with the 1 in 20 stat after you've been snipped and are sat there in pain some months later. That's way too high a percentage where you aren't told about it.

 

[jdtate101]

Had mine done last yr aged 37, never regretted it. Had my two kids, don't want anymore. Mine was very quick, painless, and all healed up within 3 days. By day 5 I was back on the bike. I understand that some have post op complications, but my sex life is way better now as we don't have to worry about contraception anymore.

 

[fossyant]

What really hisses me off is the Doctor's and Consultant's response. Oh yes this does happen tough. bye, take a shed load of pain killers, or worse 'anti seisure' drugs - I told them to feck off. The specialist thinks the patch up job wasn't good as my left pipe is pulling tight - which is shouldn't as it's no longer attached either end. - They stitched the blood vessel to it, so each time the leg goes up and down on the bike, or walking/running, it's pull, pull, pull.

I went through with the op as my wife has thyroid issues, and came off the pill so it didn't mess up her hormones. With getting 'suited up' you do sometimes lose the moment, so I decided to get it done - the pain is enough to put you off any bedroom antics.

As said, the first half was painless, just that he fecked up the left one. I had no sedation, just a local, but for some reason the left didn't take. At half way through I thought, 'this is great, no problem'. The research also recons if you've had a 'rough' op, then this causes issues. That's the last time anyone 'training' is let loose on me.