# One in ten thousand vasectomy- Me **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475 "2002-06-28T23:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lectricity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Lectricity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lectricity)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475/1 "2002-06-28T23:09:51Z")
Sure, correct me if I’m wrong about the numbers, but none the less, It’s me. Yep it looks like them little tubes spontainiously rejoined. I’m still fertile. One month after the operation, I gave a sample and the doctor found several inactive sperm. He asked me to come back in a month. That was today. Now he found lots of the little guys swimming around. “Very active” he said. On the plus side, I got to use “I have to go make a seamen sample” as an excuse to miss work TWO TIMES! That’s all for the plus side. I could hardly walk for over a month and for what? Looks like for nothing. Just thought I’d share that.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475/2 "2002-06-28T23:13:32Z")
Sucks, dude. Big time. 'Course, I already knew, 'cuz your wife IM’ed me about it earlier. I was gonna e-mail ya… Still, on the bright side, ya gotta be proud of those little guys. Never give up, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Lectricity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Lectricity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lectricity)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475/3 "2002-06-28T23:23:22Z")
Yeah, guess I’m not getting out of the gene pool that easy. After I found out, I thought maybe I was good at going against great odds and maybe I should buy a lottery ticket. Instead I just bought a soda that promised that I might win a new Dodge truck. The cap said “SORRY TRY AGAIN” Story of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Calliope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Calliope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calliope)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475/4 "2002-06-28T23:23:51Z")
I have a friend who’s hubby had to go through the procedure _three_, count them, _three_ times. He considers himself quite the stud. Of course, his wife felt it was a fair exchange for the three children she gave birth to. ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475/5 "2002-06-28T23:26:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lectricity \* > \*\*The cap said “SORRY TRY AGAIN” > Story of my life. \*\* 😃 Apparently so! So are you going to? Try the snippage again, that is? ---
**Author:** ![Lectricity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Lectricity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lectricity)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475/6 "2002-06-28T23:35:54Z")
Got me an appointment for July 8th at 1:30 (EST (or EDST or whatever)) to drop my shorts and let Doc have at it and then discuss options. I don’t know WTF I’m going to do. A few beers for now though.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475/7 "2002-06-28T23:37:08Z")
Sounds good. I’m about to take off, so I’ll hoist a few for ya, as well. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475/8 "2002-06-28T23:40:19Z")
God, I’m so glad I’ll never have to go through that, being gay and all. Anyway, I have it on good evidence that my boys don’t swim anyway (long story). I’m just glad I won’t ever have to have my legs up in stirrups while some doc snips away at my balls. Besides, there’s a good chance I’ll be asked to be a sperm donor for a close lesbian couple of mine. I haven’t decided how I feel about that - having a child that’s mine, but not being raised by me. It would be kind of weird… If it comes to pass, I hope I’d be able to see the child, and make sure he or she knows that even though he or she has two mothers, that he or she still has a father. Probably the closest thing I’ll have to biological children… ☹ - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![Lectricity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Lectricity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lectricity)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475/9 "2002-06-28T23:50:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scott evil \* > \*\*I’m just glad I won’t ever have to have my legs up in stirrups while some doc snips away at my balls. \*\* They put me out. I don’t rember a thing. However, I never did pay my copay and I wonder if maybe that dosn’t have anything to do with the final result. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475/10 "2002-06-29T00:18:05Z")
ME TOO! My Dr. did the second one for free. Oh Joy. Its interesting to tell your boss that you will be late to work in the morning because… um well… I got to give another sample. Again. You do have to be checked. I have a friend that has a third child because he didn’t. Maybe it’s not as sure of a thing as they say If you are thinking about it, don’t be afraid. It realy isn’t that bad. It you are sensitive ask for more pain killer. Demand it. Thats what its for. Lectricity said. — I could hardly walk for over a month and for what? Really? I watched T.V. the day it was done. Drove myself to and from the Dr. No pain afterwords. Very little swelling. Couldn’t even find the cuts after about 2days. Couldn’t find them now. On the other hand, my brother in-law had a tough time with his. If you feel pain get more drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Lectricity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Lectricity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lectricity)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475/11 "2002-06-29T01:13:40Z")
More drugs just made it worse. I walk and walk and walk at work. Sometimes I think I’m paid by the mile. I took pain killers when I should have been laying down w/ my legs elevated. About two weeks after I felt mostly better, I helped to lift a very heavy thing and I felt a “_PING_” and it was OUCH for two more weeks. I still am not quite right down there and have had to give up boxer shorts all together. It’s all boxer-briefs now. I need all the support I can get. Why all this trouble should amount to a failed vasectomy however, I have no Idea. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-in-ten-thousand-vasectomy-me/116475/12 "2002-06-29T01:27:14Z")
This time have them put in a zipper instead of stitches. Just in case.