Vasectomy Reversal Option

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If your main reason for having a Vasectomy Reversal is to have more children, you may want to at least consider what other non vasectomy reversal options there are.

IVF is an option that you may want to consider. The procedure involves incubating human eggs and sperm outside the body. Once fertilization has occurred, and the fertilized egg becomes an embryo, it is then transferred into the female.

In order to obtain sperm from the father-to-be that has had the vasectomy, a minor surgical procedure is performed where the sperm is removed directly from the epididymis or the testicle.

This procedure is much less complicated than a vasectomy reversal, but does need to be done under a local anaesthetic with sperm being extracted via a needle inserted through the scrotum into either the epididymis or the testes.

Unfortunately when looking at this particular vasectomy reversal option and the success rate, it doesn’t stack up too well against a standard vasectomy reversal.

Most experts agree that IVF should be looked at as the last resort rather than first option. This being due to the relatively poor success rate of the procedure and the significant financial cost involved.

A single cycle of IVF treatment can cost up to $15,000.00. The success rate of IVF at present is less than 30%. Often times in order to achieve that success rate, several cycles are needed.

Most experts agree that the vasectomy reversal option and in some cases repeating the vasectomy reversal surgery, has a much better chance of success and pregnancy occurring.

Even if you have a had a vasectomy reversal, your chances of success are still far greater with repeat surgery, if the initial reversal was unsuccessful, rather than using IVF.

In comparison studies between first time vasectomy reversal patients and repeat reversal patients, sperm was found in the semen of 75% of men who have had the reversal procedure repeated (compared to 86% having a first time vasectomy reversal), with the number of pregnancies achieved being 43% (compared to 52% of men having the first time surgery).

While the figures above do show a decline in success rate when the vasectomy reversal is repeated, the success rate is still significantly higher than the 30% attributed to IVF.

If you have had a vasectomy and are looking at your options to have children, when you weigh up your chances of success and what it is likely to cost you to achieve that success, vasectomy reversal surgery, even if it needs to be repeated, still gives you the greatest chance of successfully having children again.