I guess it's a tool (personal)

Mark W.

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Please do not answer if you don't feel comfortable but I feel this is the best place for me to turn. The wife has been strongly encouraging me to get a vasectomy. What, if any, problems have some of you encountered? If this gets poofed, I understand, just need some advice.
 
Got mine 43 years ago, no problems at all. The only problem would have been if wife had of turned up pregnant, sure would've been looking hard at the mail man. LOL
 
Mine went very smoothly and healed quickly. Get a bag of frozen peas to lay under your bag. Managing the swelling is the key to pain management. I hate needles so I asked for a sedative; he gave me a scrip for one pill to take before I came in, then it was an injection of local anesthetic. Good choice for me and my family.
 
39 years ago. No problems and it took the worry out of being close. A friend on the other hand had it done and while the pain killer was still effective decided to drive a cab over around to the shop. He did his usual drop out of the cab then realized his mistake. He went home for a couple of days.
 
(quoted from post at 19:26:58 10/07/15) Please do not answer if you don't feel comfortable but I feel this is the best place for me to turn. The wife has been strongly encouraging me to get a vasectomy. What, if any, problems have some of you encountered? If this gets poofed, I understand, just need some advice.

I was a little to active after the deal they got BIG, I came to learn how a bull feels and yes a frozen bag of corn was of great help...

Take the next 2/3 days EZ I should have stayed home in lock down... If you wife goes with you they will probably let her handle the shave part mine did... It was just the doc, her and me in the room...
 
The procedure is fast and painless. After words just do what the doc. tells you. But in my opinion I would really weight things out. How old are you? How's the relationship with your wife? Etc. I though all was good but two years later, I'm divorced. I was still young enough to have more kids. I start dating gals that all want kids. To this day, I wish I would not have had it done.
 
Well ask my Dad as he had one 9 months or more before I was born ! Eventually the truth always comes out.
No DNA test needed to see who is my Dad either.

I don't trust doctors for anything ! And I sure don't want them to "fix" one of my only decent working parts left.
 
knew a fella that had that done. Later he woke up with the flu so decided to stay in bed while his wife went to work. He started searching the house for something for flu relief and came across his wife's birth control pills. That was the end of that marriage.
 
Read JL Ray's comment two or three times. I've been married twice. Both times I thought it was forever and ever. First wife wanted me to get clipped, but I didn't. Had I done so I wouldn't have my second daughter who is now so important to me.
 
Problems? Neighbor up the road had the cut, and being this is a small community, everyone in the neighborhood knew about it and razzed him good-naturedly. About six months later, his wife showed up pregnant, and the razzing started again. Turned out - he hadn't gone back to the doctor for the follow-up, and he thought he was shooting blanks when they were live loads. Mama was innocent. The moral - go in for the follow-up to make sure the procedure worked.

Footnote - the baby girl that the neighbor's wife had is a beautiful young lady today, and the parents are very glad the vas didn't work.
 
An actual tweet from Chicago:

"I thought my vasectomy would keep my wife from getting pregnant but
apparently it just changes the color of the baby."

Seriously, no way would I have it done. You never know when your first family might be destroyed and you want to start a second one.
 
Birth control pills are not exclusively for birth control, but if it resulted in a divorce, there must have been some fence jumping going on.
 
(quoted from post at 14:26:58 10/07/15) Please do not answer if you don't feel comfortable but I feel this is the best place for me to turn. The wife has been strongly encouraging me to get a vasectomy. What, if any, problems have some of you encountered? If this gets poofed, I understand, just need some advice.
er being the driver in this deal, tell her she can have her tubes tied. That can be un-done if later circumstances dictate.
 
When they tell you to take it easy, understand that means do nothing for 2-3 days. I don't think my takin it easy is the same as most peoples. I had major swelling for a couple weeks, and the stiches came undone on one side. Nothing like being out in a hayfield with your drawers down and a pair of pliers trying to tie things up again.

No problems once everything healed, no more kids either. I love my two kids dearly, but I'm done.
 
Had one in my 20's. No problems. I worked with a guy a lot older than me who had one when they were almost unheard of. They keep the ORs kind of cool. The doc walked up to get started, took a look, called the nurse over and said "We're going to have to start doing this in warmer weather." True story.
 
What about the guy who wound up getting everything cut off. The doctor was screaming at the nurse 'I said remove his specticles!!!'.
 
Got it done. Had to go back in for pain,scar tissue, I guess. 6-8 months later dug around take something out. 26 years later still bothers when do way to much physical work. I marked it as the stupids thing ever done. Of course I was beratted into it by then wife. Said how much better everything would be.
 
"The wife has been strongly encouraging me to get a vasectomy."

Have you discussed with her the sterilization options available to her?

With modern laproscopic surgical techniques she ain't gonna suffer much than you if she gets spayed vs. you getting neutered. Worth a DISCUSSION, at least, IMHO.

(Being "strongly encouraged" by SWMBO sets off LOTS of alarm bells, IMHO.)
 
I did this not too long ago, after getting over the fact of letting a doctor expose your junk and cut holes in it, the procedure is fast and not that bad. I was in/out of his office in around an hour. I left on my own and stopped at the drug store and grocery store before I drove home. The pain never bothered me and I only took two pain pills on the first day. I was doing yard work and driving the tractor the next day and went back to work on Monday.

Vasectomies are permanent birth control but the procedure is reversible if your plans change later on.
 
Reading 4play's comment......the procedure is reversible!!!!
Not totally true. Every year after the procedures your chance of reversing become less likely to work out. At about year ten your out of luck. Please be sure to cover this conversation with your Doc before going forward. I tried this path with no luck.
 
All in all don't be pressured into something. It is your body after all. It is something you have to feel comfortable with as well. How many kids do you have? Your age?
 
got mine 6 months after my son was born
got out of bed that afternoon went downstairs out the front door got the newspaper walked back inside to the refrigerator to get fresh ice for the ice pack. standing in front of the fridge something grabbed hold of them and pulled them down to the floor. I crawled up stairs with tears in my eyes and was sore for weeks afterwards. they sure got black and blue and BIG.
divorced my wife little over a year later and never regretted not being able to have any more kids
on wife #3 now and spoiling grandkids that came with her.
my two kids never had any kids, my son turned 30 last June
 
I can't add much but I can share my experience.

After my second wife and I had our son, we decided together that was all we were going to have. I was 32 years old, she is six years younger and was having some "female" problems, so the easy thing was for me to be "fixed". We had my daughter from my first marriage and to me and my wife, that was a complete family.

I had it done on a Friday afternoon, took the weekend off from doing anything other than holding an ice pack. Went to work on Monday and never looked back. Did the testing to make sure it worked about a month later.

Funny thing about it (not funny at the time) is that my wife had to end up having the total hysterectomy about a year later. So we are pretty safe. Since then it has been a good decision, never questioned it. That was 34 years ago.

My only hiccup was while doing the procedure the doctor was telling me how he was having surgery the next week on his thumb to stop it from having an involuntary flinch from time to time. I looked at him and then the nurse. She told me he tells all the guys that story...
 
If you are done wanting kids , then by all means do it. Nothing tee,s me off more than a guy putting his wife through tube tying for fear his little "willie" will never be the same. I'm 65, had done at 34 and never regretted. Simple as getting teeth cleaned. Small slit 1/2" long,no stitches, no pain (if you wear the jocky support shorts like they told ya). But just listen to all the horror stories your buddies tell ya ! Heck, my voice raised up to where I now sing professionally and make millions1 Just grow a pair and get it done. Bedtime with a wife that doesn't have to carry that burden will be a lot better,trust me.
 
(quoted from post at 22:46:28 10/12/15) If you are done wanting kids , then by all means do it. Nothing tee,s me off more than a guy putting his wife through tube tying for fear his little "willie" will never be the same. I'm 65, had done at 34 and never regretted. Simple as getting teeth cleaned. Small slit 1/2" long,no stitches, no pain (if you wear the jocky support shorts like they told ya). But just listen to all the horror stories your buddies tell ya ! Heck, my voice raised up to where I now sing professionally and make millions1 Just grow a pair and get it done. Bedtime with a wife that doesn't have to carry that burden will be a lot better,trust me.

You sir are a wise man. I fully agree with everything you said.

There is a lot of misimformation being slung around in this thread.....but that is not unusual here.
 
(quoted from post at 01:59:11 10/13/15)
(quoted from post at 22:46:28 10/12/15) If you are done wanting kids , then by all means do it. Nothing tee,s me off more than a guy putting his wife through tube tying for fear his little "willie" will never be the same. I'm 65, had done at 34 and never regretted. Simple as getting teeth cleaned. Small slit 1/2" long,no stitches, no pain (if you wear the jocky support shorts like they told ya). But just listen to all the horror stories your buddies tell ya ! Heck, my voice raised up to where I now sing professionally and make millions1 Just grow a pair and get it done. Bedtime with a wife that doesn't have to carry that burden will be a lot better,trust me.

You sir are a wise man. I fully agree with everything you said.

There is a lot of misimformation being slung around in this thread.....but that is not unusual here.
n my case (& sounds like original poster's case) it was the wife that thought she didn't want more children. I was OK with more, so she didn't lean on me to mess with my 'stuff', she just got here 'stuff' fixed. Seemed right to me & still does!
 

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