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05-11-2010, 02:41 AM | #41 |
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05-11-2010, 03:37 AM | #42 |
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05-11-2010, 03:46 AM | #43 |
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05-11-2010, 02:11 PM | #44 |
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It took me about 5 months to fully heal. I just had a nagging pain down there that lingered for a while. I was calling the dr on a weekly basis to complain that they effed up somehow. The just kept giving me lortabs and telling me to give it another week. I was nervous to do it in the first place, then to have a longer recovery time than most was quite annoying.
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05-11-2010, 02:25 PM | #45 |
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05-11-2010, 02:28 PM | #46 |
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I had this done about 7 years ago ,funny enough on my lunch break,lol. I have two boys and with the second child we almost lost my wife. The doc said it would be for the best if we didnt try anymore because my wife prob wouldn't survive it. So I went on my lunch break and had it done. Except for a little sting at first ,I really felt nothing.Now ,my boys were swollen like melons for a few days but no other effects plus the sex life is GREAT! I will say that a part of me was wanting another child but I also understand that thier are alot of children out thier with no one and they need a good home and loving parents. So , wife and I are talking adoption, so just think about all aspects before you make a choice.
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05-11-2010, 02:49 PM | #47 |
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First of all-HUGE thanks to all the Tankers who posted. We're 5 pages in and not one "pictures or it didn't happen!"
We made this choice about 4 years ago, after our second was born. There were medical issues with the wife that made the decision the most responsible. This is not to say I didn't agonize over it and wonder. It's a question of age, too. I was 37 and not likely to change my mind later regarding the deal. If I was younger then I REALLY would have agonized! The process is straightforward, not painful at all physically (a little uncomfortable) but there was a psychological discomfort. Honestly, being that nervous in front of a hot nurses assistant did nothing for my pride during the prep phase. The second was realizing the folly of joking with the doctor holding a blade in one hand and your happiness in the other (seriously-if he's remotely emotional don't joke about any Braveheart scenes). Outpatient, I had listened to guys at the station that had the process done and took it easy for the whole duration, so I needed the cold packs for little over half a day but nothing else (firefighters aren't the best listeners and there were some horror stories about guys who didn't take it easy after the procedure). Honestly though-this isn't about the procedure, the recovery, and the idealized manhood people seem to fear losing. This is about the two of you, and doing what's right for your relationship and the future. Listen to your heart, there's nothing wrong with having anxiety about this choice, just don't let any of that anxiety control your decisions. |
05-11-2010, 03:17 PM | #48 |
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First of all-HUGE thanks to all the Tankers who posted. We're 5 pages in and not one "pictures or it didn't happen!"
We made this choice about 4 years ago, after our second was born. There were medical issues with the wife that made the decision the most responsible. This is not to say I didn't agonize over it and wonder. It's a question of age, too. I was 37 and not likely to change my mind later regarding the deal. If I was younger then I REALLY would have agonized! The process is straightforward, not painful at all physically (a little uncomfortable) but there was a psychological discomfort. Honestly, being that nervous in front of a hot nurses assistant did nothing for my pride during the prep phase. The second was realizing the folly of joking with the doctor holding a blade in one hand and your happiness in the other (seriously-if he's remotely emotional don't joke about any Braveheart scenes). Outpatient, I had listened to guys at the station that had the process done and took it easy for the whole duration, so I needed the cold packs for little over half a day but nothing else (firefighters aren't the best listeners and there were some horror stories about guys who didn't take it easy after the procedure). Honestly though-this isn't about the procedure, the recovery, and the idealized manhood people seem to fear losing. This is about the two of you, and doing what's right for your relationship and the future. Listen to your heart, there's nothing wrong with having anxiety about this choice, just don't let any of that anxiety control your decisions. |
05-11-2010, 11:42 PM | #49 |
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thanks to all of you guys i feel at ease making a decision about this procedure
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05-11-2010, 11:54 PM | #50 |
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Let me stab at this at a different angle. My wife got her tubes tied long before we met. Essentally now I want kids of my own but she cannot get a reversal (long story but trust me on this).
Anyway this put a HUGE strain on our relationship and she regrets ever having it done. She has three wonderfull girls from a preveious marrage (long story short the dad is a deadbeat). Pretty much they are my children in everything but name only, but still that one minor fact has been the toughest single thing we have faced together. Not to say our marrage is bad or going down the tubes but really I would spare anyone the problems we have faced. I have no children of my own (biologically) cause I was carefull not to get any women pregnant before I met my wife, now sometimes I feel like I am being punished for it and being deprived a joy that I know how it feels (from my stepdaughters) but can never truely have due to "biology" Tons of pain I wouldn't wish on another soul. So my point being, you never know what is going to happen. You and your wife might be happy now but later, who knows, and then maybe you meet someone else who never had kids of her own and, opps you got snipped. Imagine what that would put her through, trust me its horrible. Just on the 1% chance that would happen I would advise you NOT to get it. Just my POV A friend of mine had a vasectomy before he got divorced. He remarried, and his knew wife was still young enough to have kids. He has grown kids from his first marriage, but I guess he was still young enough that he didn't mind having more kids later with his new wife. He ended up getting a reversal. But, there was not a guarantee that it would work. Come to think of it, I don't think the reversal worked. He never really talked about it, but I don't recall any new babies later. |
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