Women, if you don't want kids...?!


Question: ...could you have a vasectomy under 25, or have the operation with having no kids prior to this? Is having a vasectomy real painful for you afterwards?


Answers: ...could you have a vasectomy under 25, or have the operation with having no kids prior to this? Is having a vasectomy real painful for you afterwards?

I think you can pay for it privately (tubes tied) but they don't like to give it to womem under 25 and withoutt children.

I've talked to a fewr people, some say it was hardly painful at all, others say it was painful and took a few weeks to recover.

But you may be interested in something I discovered on the internet! There is a new procedure called Essure which can sterilize but withouth an operation. They insert a tiny implant through the cervix with one of those camera things and they insert it in the tubes - the tissue natrually grows over the implants and creates a block. It takes about 15 mins, doesn't involve any surgery and is hardly painful at all. Women may suffer bleeding afterwards and period like pain but who I've talked to were back to work the next day!

FYI - for women it is called a tubal ligation.

Yes, physically you can do it. However, you're going to have a hard time finding a Dr. willing to do it on a woman that young. They usually want to wait until you are at least 30, in case you change your mind.

And no, it's not particularly painful. Just like any other surgery.

Women can't get a vasectomy. A vasectomy is when the vas Deferens tubes are shut, preventing sperm from leaving the testes. Seeing as how women don't have sperm or testes or anything else related to a vasectomy, it just can't be tone. You're probably thinking of a tubal ligation, in which the fallopian tubes are tied shut, preventing the egg from reaching the uterus. I'm sure you can have this done at any age, but why would you want to undergo major surgery when there are non-surgical options available? There's the pill, IUDs, Depo, etc.

While a tubal ligation (BTL) CAN be performed on a woman of any age, it is usually severely frowned upon by the medical community if it's being done on a woman under the age of 35 and who has not had at least one baby.

This is because roughly 60% of all women who have it done earlier than 35 end up changing their minds within 5 years.
The reveral technology is expensive, NEVER covered by insurance and is NOT guaranteed (only about 40% effective in producing a baby...or roughly equivalant to in vitro fertilization).

The procedure is done under general anesthesia in a hospital, and is still highly invasive (requiring cutting into the abdominal cavity). Recovery is usually 4-10 days, depending upon the person, with full activities resumed in about 2-3 weeks. Infection and other complications occurs about 15% of the time.
The alternative (Essure) is done trans-vaginally, but has a 14-20% failure/complication rate and it does not have efficacy case studies past 5 years in the US.

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Male sterilization (vasectomy) on the other hand is a VERY simply out-patient procedure done in a doctor's office. It is not invasive (one or two small cuts that are sutured closed). Recovery time is about 3 days, with all normal activities resumed in about a week. Complication rates are VERY low (under 5%).

Again however, most doctors will NOT perform a vas on men under the age of 30-35 for the same reasons listed above.
Reversal success over 10 years is less than 40%; sperm-extraction via the testical CAN be done, but it is exceedingly painful, VERY expensive and has a pregnancy success rate of about 40%.

Go Ms. Brutally Honest!! That's a great way to answer this question.

It is outpatient minor surgery to a man having a vesectomy but major surgery for a woman to have a tubal ligation. Many women don't need to worry about this due to the plethora of birth control at our disposal, but I would imagine it is our body so we should be able to choose whether or not we want kids. Not everyone wants to pass their genetic baggage on (think mental illnesses)





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