Thinking About Vasectomy?
January 11, 2010
Vasectomy is a surgical procedure which ensures sterility in men. Since it has a failure rate of just one out of 4500 men it is well trusted.
Vasectomy can be performed within 15 minutes once all the preparations are made. Surgeons hesitate to perform it on younger men even though the procedure is reversible.
The surgery can be done using local or general anesthetic. Use of local anesthetic is a cheaper option because if general anesthetic is used then additional cost of anaesthetist and his services will be added. Most of the private surgeons try to convince the person for general anesthetic.
Procedure
The procedure may scare a few men but it causes little pain. Vas is the tube in prostate gland which carries the sperms to the semen. A piece of vas is cut during vasectomy. Different surgeons do the surgery differently.
Some may just do one incision and others may do two. Most of the private surgeons perform “puncture” to the scrotum and insert a thin instrument through the space to cut the vas.
But the overall procedure remains somewhat the same. An IV anesthetic is given to the scrotum to start the procedure. Incision or “puncture” is done on the scrotum and vas is searched.
A piece of vas is cut and sealed. The second tube is also cut and sealed in the same way.
Modern technology offers immediate healing of the incision/puncture. If stitches are made they would be dissolved soon.
Things to Know
Chronic pain is rarely experienced after vasectomy. The sperms that are produced after the surgery remain in the epididymis. It is a 16 foot long tube present behind the testicles. It is a possibility than men may experience pain due to the pressure built up in epididymis. But it is rare.
Vasectomy fails rarely and is reversible. It is a safer and quicker procedure than hysterectomy.
One can not immediately stop using contraception right after vasectomy. You need to be sure that the sperms are no longer in the tube.
One myth associated with vasectomy is that it decreases libido in men. This is not true. Once recovered from the surgery men can perform sexual activities with same vigor as before.
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