Sunday 10 June 2012

All About Vasectomies

There is a good chance that if you are a female, you won’t need to visit a urologist if you’ve been keeping up a good hygiene routine, barring an unforeseeable health issue development. But if you are a male, there is quite a good chance that at some point in your life, most likely during your middle-age years, that you will have to go see a urologist- not because you are ill or haven’t been taking good hygienic care of yourself, but because you will most likely need or want a vasectomy.
            A vasectomy is a procedure in which the vasa deferential of the male are severed and then tied or sealed such that sperm is prevented from entering into the seminal stream and therefore preventing ejaculation. Being a minimally invasive procedure taking only about ten to thirty minutes to complete, patients remain in minimal discomfort for a few days, with complete recovery occurring about a week after the procedure.

            Although a modern urologist is competent at performing a wide variety of procedures, such as treating benign prostatic hyperplasia (enlarged prostates) or performing Labiaplasty Los Angeles surgeries, more often than not, the majority of his dealings will be with vasectomy-related matters; each year, between 175,000 to 354,000 vasectomies are performed. The vasectomy procedure itself involves making a small incision in the scrotum after the application of local anesthetic and cauterizing each end of a cut vas deferens. After getting stitched up, antibiotic ointment and a gauze pad are applied to the area with the incision.

            You may have heard some horror stories about the pain that comes with vasectomies; these horror stories have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, there will be some swelling and discomfort after the procedure, but the discomfort and swelling will be relatively mild, and if you are too uncomfortable and in pain, the doctor may prescribe some pain relievers. For about a week or so after the surgery, you will need to wear a scrotal support garment or jockey shorts to encourage a rapid and successful recovery.

The most prominent reason men decide to get a Vasectomy Los Angeles is its effectiveness as birth control. According to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, however, there is a 1 in 2000 chance that a vasectomy will fail (a failed vasectomy is one in which a pregnancy occurs despite the vasectomy procedure), but those are much better statistics than those of tubal ligations (getting your tubes tied) by females: in every 200 to 300 cases of tubal ligations, there is at least one failure. Also, vasectomies as a form of birth control, when compared to tubal ligation, are more advantageous in that they are less invasive, less risky, and more cost effective. A post-op return visit to the urologist is necessary in order to ensure that a successful vasectomy has taken place.

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