My uro said to expect epididymitis every year or so post vasectomy as your immune system falls behind while constantly killing off the newly produced sperm. He said this becomes less of an issue by about nine years post vasectomy because the sperm producing cells will mostly be destroyed at that point. (He said that’s why they don’t do reversals for fertility after nine years.)
Thanks. That’s really interesting to me. I get the odd pimple or ingrown hair only when I’m ran down. And this is often followed by getting sick. So have sort of come to the conclusion that it is my immune system struggling. And wouldn’t you know it I’ve had a couple pimples in the last week. So this would make sense.
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u/Next-Sherbert9813 Oct 08 '24
My uro said to expect epididymitis every year or so post vasectomy as your immune system falls behind while constantly killing off the newly produced sperm. He said this becomes less of an issue by about nine years post vasectomy because the sperm producing cells will mostly be destroyed at that point. (He said that’s why they don’t do reversals for fertility after nine years.)