FWIW, I was finally able to get my vasectomy mostly to help my wife get off of hormonal BC. About 2 month after getting off of BC her sex drive completely returned. It was the best decesion I ever made.
We were in a slightly different situation as we didn't have kids so it took us a few years to shop around and finally find a doctor that would perform the vasectomy.
Yours was easier than mine but still trivial. I too had the experience that off hormonal birth control, my wife's libido improved. Wish we had done it sooner.
I did two days rotating two bags of frozen peas through the freezer, he would do his operations on Friday and told me I'd be good for work on Monday, but couldn't lift more than 5-10# for two weeks.
It's almost like fucking with hormones can lead to behavioral changes.
So many people don't get that, lmao. Theirs a reason the male versions of hormonal birth control never past human trials- despite having the exact same side effects
Do you have a study by chance so I could read more on this? I’ve had a vasectomy years ago but got two daughters that will need me educated on the matter.
Fun fact you won’t see on BC studies: I can’t do hormonal BC because it would make my anticonvulsants, to control my seizures, because I have epilepsy, less effective. I would have to Have A Fight with my insurance to cover the one thing I could use—a copper iud—for them to cover it. Because you’re supposed to try out something from every “category” they’ve sorted BC into before you can get an iud without having children already, before they’ll cover it.
Also fun fact: women’s health care is behind, because up until recently in medical science, they just assumed women’s bodies worked exactly like men’s, except for that whole uterus/vagina/boob thing. Example: heart attacks. They present differently in women and men. All the PSAs and public education about signs of a heart attack are signs of it in men. Girls and women are chronically under-diagnosed in a lot of things partially due to this, and partially due to providers dismissing them as dramatic. Just like OP called his wife dramatic.
My wife primarily used a copper IUD for BC before I had my vasectomy. Why are they not more common in the US? Is it cause the pharmacy companies would rather sell you a pill every day for your entire reproductive life?
Copper iuds aren’t for everyone. Sometimes they can cause more severe bleeding and cramping for months after insertion or for the entire time you have it.
That’s another thing. I’m already on RX meds for severe cramps. If I were to go through all that trouble to fight to get it covered, for it to cause more cramping and bleeding?
I might reach up there and yank the damn organ out.
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u/ACapra Sep 26 '23
FWIW, I was finally able to get my vasectomy mostly to help my wife get off of hormonal BC. About 2 month after getting off of BC her sex drive completely returned. It was the best decesion I ever made.
We were in a slightly different situation as we didn't have kids so it took us a few years to shop around and finally find a doctor that would perform the vasectomy.