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Thinking of getting the “snip-snip”? Please, please, consider the risks involved. It’s amazing to me how much these procedures are promoted and touted as easy, harmless, and even “life-enhancing”. Especially after I took some extra time to research some of the common issues, conditions and side-effects caused and linked with these procedures.
Immediate side effects right after the surgery include:
1.Bleeding or a blood clot (hematoma) inside the scrotum
2.Blood in your semen
3.Bruising of your scrotum
4.Infection of the surgery site
5.Mild pain of discomfort
6.Swelling
Delayed complications can include:
1. Chronic pain
2. Fluid build-up in the testicle, which can cause a dull ache that gets worse with ejaculation.
3.Inflammation caused by leaking sperm, (granuloma).
4. An abnormal cyst (spermatocele) that develops in the small coiled tube located on the upper testicle that collects and transports sperm,(epididymis).
When you look up information on vasectomy and it’s side effects you hear from Dr.s and medical professionals. They make it seem so…easy…so…harmless. You just get this feeling that it’s no big deal.
But…
If you hear from one of the men that do have the complications and their are quite a few out there. It seems horrific. My heart just goes out to them and their families because we are made to think this is the “right thing to do”, the “moral” thing even. Here are a few of the websites that I found that are very in depth, detailed where the writers have first hand experience with vasectomy themselves.
http://www.dontfixit.org
https://www.pop.org/content/problems-quick-fix
These are written by men who had vasectomies and wrote very candidly about them. I hope this information helps others to dig deeper into researching these common and popular procedures so they are better able to make more informed decisions.
Disclaimer:
It should be noted that I am not a doctor or a medical specialist of any kind. Any and all advice in this post is informational purposes only and used at your own risk. It is assumed that you will be doing your own research on this topic and conferring with medical professionals as needed. This is not to replace medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
