The coming age of the vasectomy

Dr. Stein does not matter when. No needle. No scalpel. No suture. I pressure washed my outdoor living area the next day. That said…it was not recommended to do something like that.

 

Congratulations, homer! Today is our 40th. It's supposed to be the "ruby," anniversary. More like the "Chinese take-out," anniversary.

 

Happy anniversary to both you and @homer!

 

He just rips your balls off with his bare hands…. Total badass.

 

Not quite that intense. Close though…

 

Handing out free milk shakes in Nashville with proof of vasectomy. Soon it will be for lobotomies.

 

Cmon man. There was someone in my office when I read that. Now I have to explain what I'm laughing at.

 

Got snipped after our last one. Wife looked at me and said, "You have 2 choices, either we stop having sex from now on OR you get snipped". The reason was obvious. Sex off the table in our 30s? No way. Why not have her get snipped right after the baby is born? A hysterectomy is major surgery, on par with open heart surgery. The recovery is months and that was true with my wife. A guy getting snipped is on par to a tooth filling, although a wee bit more painful in the crotch, but it's a 15 minute procedure that can be done on Friday with you back at work on Monday.

 

Belated congratulations, Dyno! Got our 54th coming up in a couple of months.

 

Congratulations!

 

I’ll stick to ED….

 

A hysterectomy is not required for a woman who wishes to have no more children. A OB or a surgeon can easily perform a tubal ligation through an incision through the belly button. I had it done after our 3rd was born.

We had 'working names' for out gestating babies. First conceived and born was called Freddie the Fetus. Second, who we also expected to be a boy, though I hoped for a girl, had a female working name - Freida the Fetus. I was so sure we would be having a boy that when the doctor announced we had a little girl I asked in shocked but happy surprise, "Are you sure?"

As we had planned to have only 2, we were greatly surprised to learn number 3 was on his way. After the initial shock wore off Trucker assigned him a working name - Oliver Orenthal Peter Sam shortened to "Oops". Nonetheless he arrived a child as much loved and cherished as his older brother and sister.

I opted for a ligation after number 3 was born for the simplicity of it, I was already hospitalized and insurance took care of it.

Secondly, Vasectomies should be undertaken only after due diligence as there are associations with unpleasant effects that should be considered.
Increased risk of autoimmune disorders in infertile men: analysis of US claims data 1 W. D. Brubaker , 1 S. Li, 2 L. C. Baker and 3 M. L. Eisenberg 1 Department of Urology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2 Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA, and 3 Department of Urology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Increased risk of autoimmune disorders in infertile men: analysis of US claims data

SUMMARY Aberrations in reproductive fitness may be a harbinger of medical diseases in men. Existing data suggest that female infertility is associated with autoimmune disorders; however, this has not been examined in men. As immune surveillance and hormonal factors can impact male fertility and autoimmunity, we sought to determine the association between male infertility and incident autoimmune disorders. We analyzed subjects from the Truven Health MarketScan claims database from 2001 to 2008. Infertile men were identified through diagnosis and treatment codes. We examined the most common immune disorders, which were identified by ICD9 diagnosis codes. Men diagnosed with an immune disorder at baseline or within 1 year of follow-up were excluded. Infertile men were compared to vasectomized men (i.e., men who are likely fertile) and to age-matched control (10 : 1) group using Cox regression analysis. A total of 33,077 infertile men (mean age of 33 years), 77,693 vasectomized men (mean age 35), and 330,770 age matched control men (mean age 33) were assembled with a total follow-up of 1.49 M person-years. Overall, immune disorders were rare in the group with the individual conditions occurring in <0.1% of men. However, infertile men displayed the highest risk of many conditions. Infertile men had a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis compared to both vasectomized men (HR 1.56, 95% CI 1.19–2.05) and age-matched controls (HR 1.29, 95% CI 1.02–1.62). Additionally, this higher risk was seen in general immune disorders (under which systemic lupus erythematosus is categorized) compared to vasectomized men (HR 3.11, 95% CI 2.00–4.86) and agematched men (HR 2.12, 95% CI 1.52–2.96). This same risk trend was seen in psoriasis, when compared to vasectomized men (HR 1.28, 95% CI 1.09–1.50) and age-matched controls (HR 1.20, 95% CI 1.04–1.37). A similar trend was seen in the analysis comparing infertile men and vasectomized men in developing multiple sclerosis (HR 1.91, 95% CI 1.10–3.31) and Grave’s disease (HR 1.46, 95% CI 1.10–1.92), as well as the higher risk of infertile men compared to the age-matched group at developing thyroiditis (HR 1.60, 95% CI 1.02–2.52). The current analysis shows that infertile men have a higher risk of developing certain autoimmune disorders in the years following an infertility evaluation. Specifically, infertile men had higher rates of developing rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, thyroiditis, and Grave’s disease. Given these findings, further research should focus on confirmation of these associations and elucidation of the pathways between fertility and immunity.

I'm not going to supply a link - when I do my own first and last names appear in the link.

You can findt he PDF by goggling -
/Increased-risk-of-autoimmune-disorders-in-infertile-men-analysis-of-US-claims-data.pdf

 

There's a lot of drive-by Daddy's out there that could use that program.

 

God also gave us the ability to figure out how our bodies work and with that the ability to prevent a pregnancy.
If you stance is that surgical sterilization is against God's will how do you support contraception?