Vasectomy: Getting Your Tubes Cut

You’ve probably heard all the horror stories about getting your jewels on the doctor’s table and under that dreaded knife everyone seems to bring up once you get the topic rolling. Yet, vasectomies have proven to be one of the most effective contraceptive methods for men of all ages. The discussion relies not on whether it works or not but on the complications and fears surrounding the procedure and other subsequent side effects of getting a snip here and there down under.

Choosing to have a vasectomy is something you need to think over; it is not a decision you make over night. It is important that you assess the pros and cons of getting this procedure done based on what you want from life as a man and a parent. Before cutting your tubes, it is important that you ask yourself some important questions: how old are you? are you already a father? would you like to have more children in the future? Vasectomies are usually performed on men that are already contempt with their offspring results and wish to stop production. Usually, a man in this position has come to a certain age, therefore the unlikely situation of a young man getting a vasectomy.

To the same extent this is a very personal decision, having a vasectomy is also a couple’s decision. Many couples compromise and choose one of the two partners to get a definite contraceptive procedure done – in the case of men, it is a vasectomy. Even when reversals can be performed on given vasectomy cases, men are still very reluctant to have surgery performed on their testicles. Several men suffer about the idea of having their scrotum punctured and stitched; others go over the idea of needs going through this sensitive skin area. Special needless anesthetic procedures are known to be performed, yet the whole “surgery in the crotch area” seems to intimidate some.

The psychological factor is important. Some men go through a similar moody stage as women’s menopause. The detachment from reproductive capacity is deeply intertwined with the whole manliness issue and therefore it can create personal conflict in some men. For this reason, experts advice no man undergoes this surgery unless completely certain; later feelings of resentment towards their couples or themselves can cause conflict in a relationship or marriage causing these to end.

Of course you will want to test drive your new self ASAP; however, getting back to business may be delayed until further notice. And that notice needs to come from your doctor. Since your tubes may still contain sperm from past days, it is important that your doctor makes you undergo several sperm tests. These will tell you GP whether sperm is still present in your system. Otherwise, the whole point of getting a vasectomy would fail. Most pregnancies in men with vasectomies occur due to reluctance to wait the assigned period of sperm cleansing; not because the operation failed.

In a world with no commercially available contraceptive pill and having enough on our plates with generic viagra, male menopause, and all those other intricacies from age, wouldn’t getting rid of condoms or pills be a nice break to have in our relationships? Perhaps, it would be.

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