Vasectomy
Description
A vasectomy (commonly known as 'the snip') is the surgery for male sterilization. This surgery stops the sperm from being able to move from the testes to the penis and thus there is no possibility of pregnancy. Normally, neither a hospital stay is required nor any complications encountered after the operation. A vasectomy does not affect sexual performance or libido.
Effectiveness
A vasectomy is virtually 100% effective at preventing pregnancy. However, in the first few weeks following the treatment another form of birth control should be used until the doctor can test and confirm that the ejaculate does not contain sperm.
Procedure
Small incisions are made in either side of the scrotum and sections of the vas deferens (the tubes that carry a man’s sperm) are removed. The sperm can no longer move from the testes to the penis and therefore there is no possibility of pregnancy. The procedure can be done in fifteen minutes at a doctor’s office under local anaesthetic. For more information please talk your doctor and ask for a referral to a specialist.
Drawbacks
Vasectomies do not protect against STDs. This procedure is very difficult to reverse and should be considered permanent.
my husband had his done before we met and now hes the one who wants kids! what are the chances of of us having kids now?
After the initial consultation to make sure I personally truly wanted this done and wasn't being coerced by my wife.... I was instructed to clip/shave the area between the penis and scrotum prior to coming back for the procedure.
I went in, had a small circular bandaid with a freezing/numbing cream placed on my scrotum just below where the penis met with it and was asked to wait 30-60 minutes for the area to numb.
After that, two anesthetic injections were made into each testicle through the numbed area and the doc put another needle in that fetched each vas. No feeling at all....
He would then cut, put a titanium clip on the ends seal and let it go back into the scrotum.
Put a bandaid over the hole, ice pack in a jock strap and made me wait for a few minutes in post observation, Then off to lunch with my beautiful and yummy wife who accompanied me.
I spent the next day or two working from home sitting infront of the computer and no action for about a week after. Ten weeks later, followed the instructions to provide a sample and delivered it to a lab. Got the test results back and it's been totally excellent not having to worry about condoms or where ejaculate ends up.
I cringed at the title... For me at least, this method is out of the question.
It's a scalpel-less procedure these days.
Went to the doc's office for an hour and had lunch out with my wife afterwards.
Next couple of days were working from home.
I am a little afraid of getting a vasectomy because I heard that after you get fixed you will gain weight, and when you ejaculate you do not have any? its just a dry ejaculation? Is that True?
Well, if you spend the next few days after the procedure by sitting down and eating you'll gain weight.
Ejaculate is still creamy white. Just no swimmers in there.
Your wife/partner will be sure to keep you busy after the post jizz-in-a-cup test comes back clean. So no weight gain there either.
a vasectomy can be reversed the less years after having it done it is more chance of having it reversed and getting pregnant myhusband is doin it and it costs about £3000
I am totally against this for now, because i just started having sex 3 months after i turned 18, and i'll be 19 on august 29th. right now i cannot see myself without the splurging of my loves juices. even though i know i'm mildly allergic to sperm.
Everything but the active swimming ingredient is there in the baby batter.
You're 18/19...
The doctors will most definitely be discouraging you at this point from getting such a procedure done. They might even refuse you.
OTOH, be in a comitted relationship, have a few kids and then their objections will be a bit milder, arguing that if you lose a child, life changes and you end up with another woman who wants kids, etc..
If you go to the consultation with your wife/partner, they'll even separate you from her just to make sure you're not being coerced.
Don't forget Tubal Ligation.
A surgery for female sterilization,
this also prevents pregnancy.
In my opinion, tubal ligations are good.
'Cause if a man has a vasectomy and the woman gets raped, she'll still be at risk of pregnancy. Shouldn't men have the right to worry about their girlfriend/fiancee/wife?
If a guy's wife/gf/fiancee gets raped and there's a worry about pregnancy, there are options. ie. morning after pill, etc.
If she doesn't go or you didn't get her to the police after a rape, I'd wonder what you or her were thinking.... Besides, pregnancy is the least of your worries after something traumatic like that.
As far as vasectome vs tubal ligationn, honestly, I'd be more worried about her if she had to go under general anesthesia, cut open at the abdomen and tubes tied. It's bloody invasive, usual risks of being put under and a pretty nasty recovery. ...if she wanted to have this done to herself right after a caesarian birth, that might be different.
But we're talking with respect to the women we love and are comited to 'til death do us part.
What's the lesser evil? Getting a numbing patch followed by a 15 minute out patient procedure vs knocking out, slicing open and cutting up your best friend for life along with all the nastiness of recovering from that?