Naaah! Can’t afford it.
I’m broke.
I assure you, the oozing has stopped. But that was a long time ago, 1978, Dutch East Indies, baby, yeah…
Tell you what, spontenaity increases when Mama’s sure impregnation will not be an issue. That has no negative effect on manhood. I think if you equate manliness to reproductive potential then you’ll have a problem. but if you equate it more strongly with, say, the ability to get laid whenever, wherever, and however vigorously you want, well then this is just the ticket.
Word of warning: although you’re no longer loading the gun you still need to fire a few dozen times to clear the weapon of unused ammo. Or wait a few months and pray for the little guys to give up the ghost before deployment. You’re supposed to go back after a while and get counted, it’s the only way to be sure they haven’t made tunnels and aren’t still sending out womb-raiders. I never got counted cuz I’m too shy to tote a vial of hand-made jizz into the Dr. office and hand it over to the hot receptionist working the counter. 
But my wife was more explosively fertile than the Nile Delta, if there was even a single empty husk getting through she’d have turned it into a baby.
Yep. I had to have a mini-lap, though; I couldn’t have it done laparoscopically. My periods seem heavier, have a shorter interval (every 25 days or so) and don’t last as long (four days) than before. I can’t attribute it to the tubal ligation, though, because my last son was delivered via traditional Cesarean Section (nifty scar), so it could be due to that.
I had mine done a little over 2 weeks ago. I only had pain in the surgery area, the same day, but it wasn’t bad. My shoulder pain however, lasted almost a week. But I have an old shoulder injury.
They told me to wait 2 weeks to “get back in the saddle”. 
Wow, Lynn Bodoni, I’m sorry that was so rough on you.
I just had my hysterectomy two weeks ago. I was fortunate enough to be able to keep one ovary, so I am not in menopause, nor will I be until the natural time has come. For that I am grateful.
I am also glad that I had the hysterectomy done vaginally, thus no abdominal incision. I am incredibly vain and I don’t know that I would have ever done it if I knew I was going to have a big scar.
I had the surgery, went up to my room for an hour, and started bleeding out. So they had to rush me back into the O.R. to patch up the problem. That was scary. I spent two nights in the hospital, then felt kinda crappy for a few days at home. After five days I felt great. My appetite has been pretty bad, so I’ve lost seven pounds. I consider that a bonus.
It should be told that I had a disease in my uterus (adenomyosis) and that’s why I did it. My fiance has a vasectomy, so it wasn’t for birth control. We are very much looking forward to four weeks from yesterday so we can take care of my horny hormones that have been going wild ever since I became pain free.
Uteruses are for suckers.
My hubby is fixed. He had a history of nasty infections, epididymitis, bladder infections, prostate infections, etc. He has issues with many antibiotics. Treatment was difficult and he had two to four infections every year. They were talking about removing his prostate. One doctor said that he thought that the infections might be hiding out in the vas deferens and that is why they kept coming back. He had a count and it was pathetic. Nearly all were dead, the rest were sluggish and deformed. We had gone at it like rabbits for a few years without birth control and without a pregnancy and so we decided it was worth it. He had a vasectomy. It went well, he healed as fast as can be expected. He certainly lost no function, firmness or desire.
Before the operation his ejaculate was the consistency and color of honey; it seemed odd. Six months or so after the operation, it became a bit thicker and cloudy and had a more normal appearance. His prostate went from being the size of a large apple to the normal size. He did not get infections as often. I think he has had 3 in the nearly 15 years since. Two of those were associated with passing stones.
:rolleyes:
Did you eat the peas afterward? 
and
Can you eat peas afterward? ;j
You certainly can if you like. They never left the packaging. Unlike certain parts of me.
Oh man that is exactly what ex hubby’s doc said. So the ex freaked out. It went like this:
Ex:“you mean ya gotta do it again?”
Doc:“Well…last time you looked, didn’t you have two of them??”
It was very easy for me. Both times. The first time didn’t take. Second one was free
Very little swelling. Never bothered with ice. Drove myself home after the operation (about a 45 minute drive). No big deal. Watched a movie or two and just took it easy the next day.
Total non-event. The twins were a little sore for the next day or two but back to normal the day after that. Aspirin was all the pain meds I needed. Wife reported no change in performance from her perspective.
Definitely continue playing it safe for the 6 weeks until they can take a count to make 100% sure you’re firing blanks. Apparently most surprise pregnancies happen when the happy couple, glad to be free of condoms, foam, etc., decides to shorten the six week wait to only three. Surprise! Instant baby-on-the-way. All that pain & expense for nothing. Damn!
Ack :eek: ! These things scare the heck out of me! I’m not too afraid of what LSLGuy said about not waiting the full 6 weeks, because believe me, after all that I’d be absolutely sure there were no stragglers. But enipla’s ‘didn’t take’…??? What exactly does that mean? Was it a screwup on the doctor’s part (er, on your parts?) I know that at least for old-fashioned tube-tying some tissue regrowth could occur, but I thought if they were cauterized that was pretty much that.
I had my tubes tied in 82. As I recall, I went home that afternoon after perhaps an hour’s surgery, and stayed up until 11. Never had the slightest problem with it. But I DO remember having been warned that I should wait at least a month before having unprotected sex (almost the only time in my life that I’ve had sex with a condom, since I’d always been on the Pill prior to that). I was also warned that there was something like a 1 in a thousand chance of spontaneous regeneration - amazing, given they cauterize each tube in three separate places! The human body can be an amazing thing…
In 2003 I had a hysterectomy. Menopause wasn’t an issue, because I’d already been through it back in 95 (the unintended but welcome result of treatment for breast cancer - if I’d been able to sign on the line to get the deal, I would have! The cancer and treatment were nothing, but not having periods anymore was great!
The hysterectomy was hideous for the first night and next day. By the second morning, I wasn’t too bad, although I was easily tired for some weeks thereafter - it is, after all moderately major surgery. BTW, I did not have the vaginal - there’s an incision. But even though my (sorry here, TMI maybe), er, lower hair is quite light and sparse, the scar is really not very visible unless you were actually looking for it. But that may be me, anyway - you have to REALLY be looking for the lumpectomy scar on the breast! (The one under the arm, where they went in for lymph nodes, is much larger and a bit more visible, but it’s under the arm so who cares?)
My best friend had her tubes tied after her fourth child. 10 years later she is in the emergency room with horrible pain and bleeding - and was told she was suffering a miscarriage. She almost suffered a heart attack!
My dad got fixed right after my brother and I came along - my mom is his second wife. When we came around, my dad already had an eleven-year-old daughter with ridiculous kidney problems (I think she’s got two donor kidneys now, one from her mother and one from a motorcycle man) and a seven-year-old boy suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome that manifests in my non-expert opinion like high-functioning autism. Then, they got whacked with twins.
I came out first, and prefer to think that they decided they’d hit the apex and once my brother followed me out they realized it was all downhill from there. 
It apparently wasn’t a traumatic experience, since he’s been relatively open about it, though I’ve never asked. Traumatic doctor experiences tend to be beaten to death in my family - I’ve heard more times than I can count about my mother’s anaesthesia awareness during the C-section.
My mom, for an entirely unrelated reason, had a hyster about ten years ago when she was just around the bend from 50 and described it as ‘the best experience of her life.’ She has heard horror stories about them, though, and so it’s not like she’s recommending it per se.
As for me, I’m not planning on it. I still need to spread my demon seed.