I was surprised to read, in the "Male Contraceptive" thread (below), that several respondents were "snipped." I'm wondering how many guys have undergone, or would consider undergoing, a vasectomy for strictly contraceptive reasons. (Maybe this could be the subject of the next main-page TER poll!)
Have you had it done? Did you already have children before the snippage? Did you put a little sample away in the freezer before you got snipped? If you haven't had kids, would you wait until after having one or two before getting snipped?
I'm just concerned about the "un-undo-ability" of the thing. There is a procedure that will reverse a vasectomy, although that seems to me (as unsnipped) from my vantage kind of like getting married while all along planning to get divorced. I don't think I'd do it, at least not while I'm still unmarried, childless, in my middle 30s.
What are your thoughts?
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Well, i didn't read the thread you mention, but i am one of those that had a vasectomy basically for contraceptive reasons, although it did take 13 years to get it done(who says 13 is bad luck?).
By the age of 18 i knew that children were not something i wanted in my future. At 22 i finally decided that my feelings were not going to change and saw the 1st of what turned out to be many doctors in an attempt to have a the proceedure performed, only to find that they wouldn't do it because i was to young and may change my mind. Finally, at 35, after one marriage(and divorce) i was finally able to get it done.
The doctor did tell me at the time about the ability to reverse the operation should i want to in the future, but stated that it was not 100% that it would work. He told me at the time what the success rate was, but i can't remember now what it was.
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"strictly for contraceptive reasons" ?
Is there any OTHER reason?
I'm with you pig, is there any other reason to have this procedure.
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...Wife has problems with Birth Control Pills and neither trusts other contraceptive methods. True for me and my first wife.
You are still talking contraception, whatever the particulars.
I knew I wanted it at 19, had it done at 32, and never looked back. It can reverse itself, but the percentage is pretty small. As for those who say "Make sure, because you can never change your mind", I have one word...adoption. Too many children out there who need a good home as it is.
I went under the knife about nine years ago. Never got tested afterwards-figured the boys couldn't swim any more.
Got a divorce, remarried...now I have a three year old
If you get it done, make sure you get tested afterwards. I made sure and corrected the mistake-they can grow back...
Be real sure before you do it. I had one when I was in my 20s when my wife and I were dead certain we didn't want to have kids. 15 years later I was married to someone else and really wished I were still whole.
You may think you're sure, but life changes and this decision is a semi-permanent one because the reversal doesn't always work.
I got one when I had turned 35. I did so because I knew that
after the birth of my daughter that I was done having children
I had a boy and when the baby girl came along I knew in my
heart that I was done, and as life went on, I found myself at
42 years of age and raising two children on my own because the
biggest kid, the EX ran off with a co worker and had another
kid with him, so lucky for me that I did stop when I did.
Now I am 50 and the little girl has grown to 16 and I still
have no desire to father any more children.