Austin – March is one of the most crowded seasons in Vazitomis, usually in the middle of the NCAA basketball championship. Men who are looking for the procedure are not a fan of university basketball.
“A few clinics realize that if she promotes -” he is skilled, you will get a few days low, and there is a sport throughout the day, “said Dr. Sarah Fig, a professor of surgery and urologist at the University of Texas, and there is a sport throughout the day,” and I think everyone follows him. “
The story behind the national boom of Vasectomies comes to marketing.
“In my experience, when men come in March, I will say somewhat,” are you here because you want to see March Madness? Many of them say, “No,” said the urology specialist. “I think marketing only men mention that this is something they were to do. I think many patients tend to get them in their list of tasks and continue to kick the box. So it makes it in front of the mind and gets them.”
KXAN called Dr. Fig to answer some questions to the circles, including the reason for increasing the number of younger men, who should not obtain the excision of the evening, and the effectiveness of the implications.
Read copies edited of the conversation below.
What are the risks?
Fig: The risk of wondering is often a bit of short -term risk. So things such as bleeding, skin infection and epididy inflammation, which is a little infection, or sometimes just inflammation. There is a small risk, perhaps 1 %, from prolonged testicle pain, so it is clear that this is something we are trying to avoid, and we have treatments for it. When this happens, fortunately, it is rare.
Does the procedure affect a man’s sexual motivation?
Fig: There is no increasing risk of sexual imbalance. Many patients ask that, will they affect their erection or anything? The answer is no, there is no increasing risk of prostate cancer.
How do you compare the trumpet connection in women?
Fig: Due to the presence of the fallopian tubes in a woman, in the pelvis, the procedure requires entering the abdomen, general anesthesia, so it is a higher risk that can be done at the time of the C.
The wing of the evening is to make an office with a local anesthetic. It is very fast, in general, a few minutes for each side, and general recovery is just a few days of low position. You can wander, but nothing strong and spend time in ice well.
What is the harsh estimate of the period that the process can take?
Fig: The patient arrives. Log in. They enter the model when you see the doctor. You can insert the patient into a dress, on the table, get it, and wrap it.
The same procedure is less than 10 minutes, after which they will check the vital signs, make sure they feel satisfied after the procedure, and wearing them wearing clothes, so they may end up in the office for 45 minutes to an hour, but the same procedure is a kind of small percentage at that time.
Then they can lead themselves to and to and, unless they choose to take anxiety to help calm their nerves. A small percentage of my patients will only do it to help them reach it. In this case, you need a driver. But for most patients, they lead themselves inside and outside. There is not a lot of disturbance in the tables.
There has been a rise in attention in the past in the past few years. What is the reason for this?
Fig: After turning Roe V. Wade, we saw a significant increase. Just anecdotal, we all felt that we see more counseling –Younger patients, more patients without children. Several academic centers have looked around the country. We have published our experience when I was at the Cleveland clinicAnd it was a very significant rise in consultation.
Can you talk to me about men who play more than one role in reproductive care?
Fig: When we talk about reproductive rights and reproductive care, everyone tends to think about women, and it is clear that men play an important role in the same extent. The removal of the evening is really the main way a man can completely control pregnancy, right? I mean, there is a condom, but most contraceptives really fall on females.
I think the fact that more and more men come to this procedure, once again, whether it is political associated or not, I think he talks about the fact that there is greater awareness that men play a role, and that men can control some control if they do not want unintended pregnancy. Fifty years ago, it was really believed to be a woman’s burden. I think this changes.
How effective is the repercussions? And if a man decides to have one, can he get it six months after the removal of the gas?
Fig: The blood vessels are permanent sterilization. We frame it to patients in this way. It can be reversed. It is just that the repercussions tend to be covered with insurance, so they are very expensive.
If a man comes to me and said: “Hey, I do not want children now, but perhaps within five years, I will not advise the removal of the evening, but the conditions of life change and change their opinion.
Reflexions have a high success rate, especially when doing it within 15 years of wondering, which is the vast majority of upcoming men. I mentioned six months. Yes, we can do the repercussions six months after the removal of gas, and the success rate is 95 %. Again, insurance coverage, not large.
It is a general anesthetic, and it is a more involved procedure than the excision of the same vice, but we have nice success rates with repercussions, if the patient changes their opinion.
Does the insurance cover Vasectomies?
Fig: The wondering of the violating is generally covered with insurance. The only exceptions he realized for that will be a religious employer who offers a religious objection, so some Catholic employers will not be covered, but otherwise, you will only pay to pay for the advice, and then you may have a price for the procedure, and this depends on your securing and your characteristics.
How long should a man wait before sex after having the procedure?
Fig: We recommend contraceptives after the procedure, and the reason for this is that we are cut in the scrotum, or the bag, and there are still sperm, a kind of dumping in the tubes. We definitely recommend birth control to get post -SEMEN tests, which can be done after eight weeks.
Each urologist is slightly different. I usually recommend three months, only to try to reduce the chance that the patient must repeat it. So anywhere in this range for two to four months, they will get a semen test and even to hear the doctor’s office that everything looks good, it is safe to stop using contraceptives.
This is something else to tell the patients. Their partner may go out of the IUD. You want to make sure that you do not have a period in which there is no option to prevent pregnancy.
Many of the “excessive pregnancy cases” that you hear about after the columns are in patients who did not follow these instructions or did not get a post -Semen test, so they did not get this confirmation. “Hey, yes, this was successful.” This is a truly basic piece.