So it's time for a vasectomy......
 

I'm done having kids. Any advice from anyone who might have previously sat on a bag of frozen peas for two days?

Use a condom, keep your nuts.

I would disagree wholeheartedly with this statement. Life is far better without those awful things or the wife on pills.

That said, it was the third most painful experience of my life. The first two being living with newborns #1 and #2.

EDIT: No real advice to give, you just have to grin and bear it. There is an upside though - you're on the shelf for about a week, but in the 4-6 weeks after that, you need to do the deed almost constantly to clean the pipes. The Dr. actually brought my wife in and lectured her on this point. I tried to bribe him to tell her it was 12 weeks, but his professional ethics won out.

After 4 kids i wound up going in and having the old snip snip. I really did not have any issues and was back up at work the next day.

This thread is not for me, I'm single. :D

I had no problems except my balls blowing up to nerfball size the first night. Icing your nuts = no fun.

But as Samdari pointed out, you've got a great stretch ahead of you after the initial layup.

No issues for me, just follow Dr.'s orders about time off, ice, etc. I was fine after day 2.

One of the best decisions I ever made. Healed and back to work within 48 hours.

I only had a bit of swelling, but was pretty proactive with the ice.

But never having to use condoms again (or worry that your wife messed up her pills) = awesome.

Hells, yeah.

Best decision for me too. Condom-free sex without the worry of diseases or accidental impregnation? Damn straight.

Definitely don't overexert for a few days. I was instructed to wear a jock for extra support for the first few days after. Do what they tell you to avoid infection -- other than that and the blood-chilling knowledge that a whole team is surgically working on your nutsack, no big deal.

Mine wasn't too bad, just make sure the doctor removes the tape carefully....:eek:

(or you could do a no-needle vasectomy....)

Man, this thread is nuts.

If you're married, your wife already has those.

General, not a local anasthetic. And yeah, it's painful for a few days and uncomfortable for a few more, but after a couple of weeks you won't even be able to tell you had someone slice open your nutsack.

Lets not get testy now...

Jeez, I hope nobody walks past my cubicle to see me grimacing and covering my balls. This thread is brutal.

I assumed it was only a matter of time before Pumpy chimed it. He says the thread is brutal, but at some level, he loves it.

My wife volunteered to get an IUD. I did not argue. :p

Hmm... could she want to avoid getting pregnant... by someone else?

"When you're talking about a vasectomy, I hope your writing down your obituary"

Dola-
In all seriousness wife had a tubal after #2...I tell her all the time she is done having kids, I am a maybe

I thought about getting one as a single guy, but why load a gun with blanks if you're going to leave it locked up?

I still think it would be fun to play the "it ain't mine" game and have the deck stacked in my favor.

Whatever happened to just pulling out and blowing it on her face?

Beauty.:lol:

I think she packed them up when she left me.

You can still do that after the vasectomy. In fact, if your girlfriend/spouse is weight conscious, you can note that the calorie count is actually lower sans sperm if she were to digest it.

Consider that your 'learned something new today' moment.

I was out for a month and had to have another surgery after my vasectomy. Good luck.

It is all worth it in the end.

Your wife should be getting her tubes tied. You guys are all whipped.

I'm already sterile. :(

Turn that frown upside down, pal... you're off the hook!

lol, i say the same thing

It's the gentlemanly thing to do, anything else would be uncivilized .

I'm very thankful for my (step) daughter, but I would like to see little Schmidtys running around....

It's the cruel way of the world. Those who don't want kids are baby factories, those who do... not so much.

I guess there's no chance of doing the invitro thing? That's what my sister & her husband did. He kept saying it was her until he had to get tested & they found out his fish weren't swimming... then it was the changing of the undies, etc.

It was quick and painless and I was only down for 48 hours.


HOWEVER...child #3 was born 2 years after the Vasectomy.....He is mine there is no doubt but the first words out of my mouth when she told me she was pregnant..."Is it mine" and I was promptly slapped and when I woke up 2 days later I called the doctor and took a few tests that confirmed my boys were still working.

I would have asked the same thing because you were under the assumption your boys weren't suppose to be swimming.

Yeah, that MacroSlap was unwarranted; legitimate question when you think you're no longer packing heat.

fixed

umm... i probably shouldn't be in here

I think you are on to something.

You get a refund?

They offered to go double or nothing...

Hey-oh!!!!

Thanks! :D

Did you get the follow-up done? I guess you are supposed to have two follow-ups, I had my first with no fish swimming. Never bothered with the second one. Your story has me worried now....:eek:

Actually the Doc paid for the entire child birth above and beyond everything that truly needed to be taken care of, and yes I did have to go through it again to ensure they are no longer swimming....

yeah I had the first one done, they weren't swimming never went to the second...I don't think the second would have caught what happened....For me, I truly feel he was meant to be, my body healed itself to be able to produce him and he is truly my little guy.

Thats some Jurassic Park shit.

Life finds a way.

Oh wow. That's cool he took care of the tab. I tell you what, your reaction would be the same as mine if I found out that my wife was pregnant after the procedure. :D