The tube that allows the sperm to be ejaculated is severed in a vasectomy, right?
So does the body continue to produce sperm, and if so, where does all the sperm go to?
Not a doctor, but a vasectomized person here. As I understand it, the sperm cells are still produced, but are absorbed by the bloodstream somehow. The semen, of course, is still ejaculated. I didn’t notice any change at all in the ejaculate, but then I never examined it under a microscope. (Someone else did a couple of times, however.)
I think the sperm retrogrades into the bladder, but it may be absorbed by the blood, as MrO said.
In a vasectomy, the vas deferens is ligated well below the urethra, so the little buggers aren’t going to get anywhere near the bladder. I think you’re somehow getting retrograde ejaculation mixed in there.
The sperm are resorbed by white blood cells. This process occurs mainly in the epididymi, tubular structures right on top of the testicles. In about 5% of vasectomy cases, enough inflammation is caused by this process to cause some discomfort but generally resolves in a few months.
QtM, MD
“There’s a vas deferens between men and women!”
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