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post #31 of 47
7/9/06 at 7:26am
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Please read more before you snip.
The problem is, the more you (I) read, the less I want to have someone poking around in my nads.

"Andropause"? Wasn't he a "Transformer"? I don't want to deal with health complications. I figured that the least I could do, to make up for the girl's having used The Pill for so long, which has all sorts of complications of its own, is do my own part and snip the problem right off. If there were a male "Pill," I'd take that. (Is there?)

Overwhelmingly, I find that this is a safe and effective surgery. But there are risks with anything, right? I tend to be affected by those risk stories, and I'd opt out of anything medical that involves risk. You know that "one in ten thousand" that has problems? I am that "one." (I mean, I just know I'll be that "one." My luck.)

So, I am still leaning toward having this procedure done, and I appreciate everyone's continuing input here, certainly. I will continue to monitor this thread, and I will start really doing some serious research. And I'll talk to my doctor, too.

Andropause? Sheesh...

MC
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post #32 of 47
7/9/06 at 7:47am

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If you worry about risks,stay in bed.
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post #33 of 47
7/9/06 at 8:44am

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Based on this thread I'd say one of the side-effects is that your spacebar stops working.

Joe
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post #34 of 47
7/10/06 at 11:44am

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I was on the couch with ice the rest of the day after the procedure, but was fine the next day. There was low grade soreness for a few days afterwards, no big deal.

I was really disappointed with the follow-up sample though. Nurse just hands you a cup and says "Bring this back in a couple of days". There was no porn room like they always show on sitcoms. I wanted to visit the porn room!
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post #35 of 47
7/10/06 at 1:20pm
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There was no porn room...
I had elaborate fantasies of bringing along my beautiful laboratory assistant (the ultimate benefactor of this procedure) and having her assist me in rendering the sample post-haste.

"Here you go, just bring this back in a couple of days."
"Just give us a minute or two in this room here and you can have a fresh sample, whaddaya say?"



MC
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post #36 of 47
7/10/06 at 2:30pm

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"Just give us a minute or two in this room here and you can have a fresh sample, whaddaya say?"

"Anybody can give you a sample. But a GEICO quote? Made fresh."



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There was no porn room like they always show on sitcoms.

That's for sperm banks where speed is important as they want to get the little swimmers on ice while they're still healthy. If all they need to do is look under a microscope to see if there are any little swimmers, old and dead works as well as new and active. (Actually after a couple of days the swimming tails would have broken down and only the heads would remain, but that's all you need to count swimmers.)

Regards,

Joe
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post #37 of 47
7/12/06 at 10:38am

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Wouldn't it be cheaper if your wife gave you oral sex instead?

- Colton
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post #38 of 47
7/12/06 at 1:28pm

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Originally Posted by Colton
Wouldn't it be cheaper if your wife gave you oral sex instead?

- Colton

1) Perhaps, but it would be a lot less fun for her if that's all you did.

2) Not necessarily, given what jewerly costs these days.

Regards,

Joe
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post #39 of 47
7/12/06 at 8:25pm

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If Tim the Tool Man Taylor can have one, we all can!

I wish you luck - and a save venture.

ry
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post #40 of 47
7/13/06 at 6:45am

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I still want to know what the heck THIS meant:
I shoot a cloud of dust out and smoke up the whole room.
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post #41 of 47
7/13/06 at 10:12am

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Originally Posted by MichaelBA
I still want to know what the heck THIS meant:
I shoot a cloud of dust out and smoke up the whole room.

I assume it was an attempt at humor: Dust collecting on long-unused items, popping out of air ducts or old vacuum cleaners and the like.

Regards,

Joe
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post #42 of 47
7/13/06 at 12:59pm

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This is not an area to joke about, Joe! AH!
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post #43 of 47
7/19/06 at 11:19am

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I had mine Sept 13th, 2003. I remember because it was the day after Johnny Cash died and the doctor had the radio on in the operating room and it was a JC marathon.

It was completely painless and I drove home after the operation.

I did take full advantage of my doctor's advice, however, and sat on the couch watching TV for the entire weekend. It was torture.

"but honey, the Dr. said I should stay on the couch!"
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post #44 of 47
7/20/06 at 8:32am

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Originally Posted by Joseph DeMartino
I assume it was an attempt at humor: Dust collecting on long-unused items, popping out of air ducts or old vacuum cleaners and the like.

Regards,

Joe

Ha Ha you guys are killing me. I haven't checked out this thread in a while and just stopped by today to check it out. Sorry if you did not find my dust line funny but the look people give me when I tell that story makes it worth it. I, like every man in the world, freaked the funk out when I was going to have my tubes cut and worried that maybe I would be shooting blanks. Really I worried that nothing might come out and was really grateful to find out I was wrong.
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post #45 of 47
7/20/06 at 1:15pm

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Simple and mostly painless. I didn't shave enough and the doctor (male) finished up the job while the (pretty female) nurse looked on. One thing that sticks in my mind is that the doctor did NOT wear gloves.

One caution. Recently, a proctologist told me that after about 5-10 years, or in men in their 40s, the success rate for reversals plummets, dropping lower every year. I tell you this as a cautionary tale; in 2003, my 15-year-old oldest son was hit by a car and killed. After 18 months or so, my wife and I decided that we wanted another child, not to replace Tim, but because we had envisioned our lives as the parents of two kids for so long that my younger son being an only child seemed so wrong. Anyway, the proctologist told me that after so long since my snip, the odds for a successful reversal were very slim. Now we are engaged in the bureaucracy and expense of an adoption. My advice to you, is to have a couple of samples frozen, just in case the unthinkable happens. I pray that you will never need them and will be able to donate them to some nice man some day.

Sorry to rain on the (mostly) bawdy and fun nature of this thread.
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post #46 of 47
7/21/06 at 12:06pm

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I had mine done about a year ago. My wife did the shaving part. The doctor gave me a three pill cocktail an hour before I went in on that Friday afternoon. One of those pills were a valium and that was very nice. My doctor did not make incisions but rather punctures with something that hooked the Vas deferins and he burned and clamped. Not a bad surgery. There were about two or three nurses that came in to look at my stuff. Kind of uncomfortable. After the surgery it was a bottle of Hydros , a bottle of Crown Royal , lots of ice and sitting on my arse for three straight days. Was not the worse thing in my life I have experienced. I would say do it!!!

"One thing that sticks in my mind is that the doctor did NOT wear gloves." YUCK!!! Sorry to hear that Hugh.
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post #47 of 47
7/21/06 at 1:36pm

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Chad, you don't look old enough to have a vasectomy ... or a wife shaving your balls. In fact, I doubt your balls have dropped. I'm finding your story very difficult to believe. You're not foolin' me, kiddo! I'm smarter than that.

- Colton
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