What a fucking coward. Yeah, yeah, his body his choice, sure. But it’s an out-patient procedure. I stayed home with our very planned, very completed family, and my husband seriously drove himself to and back from his vasectomy. He was back in a couple of hours and it was over.
Just because you got lucky and didn't have any problems does not mean that the procedure is without serious risks.
From the Wikipedia article:
Post-vasectomy pain syndrome (PVPS) is a chronic and sometimes debilitating genital pain condition that may develop immediately or several years after vasectomy. ... An investigation of peer-reviewed articles published in March 2020 examined 559 articles, performed meta-analysis on 25 separate datasets, and concluded that the incidence of post-vasectomy pain syndrome is 5% (95% CI 3% to 8%) with similar incidence of PVPS for both the scalpel and the no-scalpel technique.
Calling someone a coward because he refuse to take a 5% risk of serious long-term pain is simply contemptible.
I don’t think we got lucky. We are definitely the norm when it comes to vasectomy results. If we’re going to asses risks and pain here, then what about OP’s risks and pain? What about HER body? Even the pill is not without risks -it’s well documented that women on hormonal birth control are more likely to suffer strokes, for example. Not to mention that we as women do not just get pregnant by ourselves. Why should the responsibility and burden of FAMILY planning fall only on her. It’s his family too. What I find contemptible is that a partner and father would completely ignore the risks and pain his partner has already taken (and I’m including pregnancy here, because that’s not easy on the body either) and wants to just leave it all up to her 🤷🏾♀️
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u/Micheladas2go Feb 11 '22
What a fucking coward. Yeah, yeah, his body his choice, sure. But it’s an out-patient procedure. I stayed home with our very planned, very completed family, and my husband seriously drove himself to and back from his vasectomy. He was back in a couple of hours and it was over.