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Fri 4 Jun, 2004 07:06 pm
My boyfriend has had a vasectomy... how effective is this? I have read that it is 'nearly' 100% effective. I know that there is NOTHING in the entire world that is 100%.. I am currently on a birth control due to chronic horrible ovarian cysts... I just still want to make sure that if we are together without protection if we are safe.. I am definately a paranoid person...
Nearly 100% is about right, if he presents a speciman for sperm count somewhere around 30 days after the operation. They don't just snip the little tubes. They latch onto the upper portion and drag it into the open till your eyeballs start sucking back into your head. Then, they cut and tie both ends of each.
He did go and they said that he was sterile.. I am just a very paranoid person -- the last thing I need is to get prenancy in the middle of finishing my degree... He said something about cauderizing (spell)...
I do realize that it does not protect me from sexually transmitted disease... We have both been tested and we are both clean. :-D
Sorry for this digression, but why would any guy WANT a vasectomy? It seems a bit drastic in most cases.
Well, in my case, I didn't relish the idea of attending my child's college graduation in my seventies.
Age is obviously a good reason. I was just thinking about a woman who wanted to undergo similar surgery, just because she didn't want kids, and she was pretty young. It confused me a little. I mean, there are less drastic ways of handling it.
Yeah, it might be hard to find a doctor willing to perform either a vasectomy or a tubal ligatation on someone in their twenties or thirties. One that would (barring the likelyhood of passing on serious congenital condition) ain't getting no damn knife around me.
This procedure is not 100% effective. Ask any board certified urologist.
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