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Failed vasectomy

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JMorrison
JMorrison

Hello all

I had a vasectomy earlier this year in February. The recovery was rough, my left side healed up fine but I had a lot of pain on the right. The right side didn’t heal up well. It swelled up pretty bad and was very painful. 

8 weeks later I dropped off a sperm sample to be tested and it came back positive for sperm still. 4 weeks later dropped off another sample... and there were still sperm active. 4 weeks later and again still sperm. 

I had to delay my in office follow up due to work and vacations. I went in last week and they tested again, still showing sperm 6 months after my procedure. 

He offered me a few choices. Do another standard vasectomy or be sedated and have surgery. His recommendation was to be sedated. 

I’m commited to following through with another vasectomy and think surgery is the way to go. I don’t like the idea of my sack getting cut open but I also don’t want to go through a other regular V and have it fail.  

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