Is A Vasectomy Reversal The Solution For You?

If you have previously had a vasectomy but now have a desire to father a child, then the encouraging news for you is that the process may well be reversible. We take a look at the vasectomy reversal process and see how likely you are to regain your fertility.

You’ll find that a vasectomy reversal is more likely to be successful the sooner that it is undertaken. It is believed the ideal time period to have a reverse vasectomy is the initial three years from the time that you first underwent your vasectomy. Your chances for a successful vasectomy reversal will slowly begin to deteriorate the more time passes by after these opening three years.

When you undergo a vasectomy reversal, the surgeon will perform either a vasovasostomy or a vasoepididymostomy. With a vasovasostomy, the surgeon will attempt to sew your vas deferens back together. This is the most likely procedure that your surgeon will perform. A vasoepididymostomy is a bit more complicated and this is normally carried out if there happens to be a blockage in the epididymis. When performing a vasoepididymostomy, your surgeon will look to join your vas deferens to your epididymis.

Anyone who is considering a vasectomy reversal will want to know what the chances are for success. Well, recent studies have indicated that those men who underwent a vasovasostomy, sperm was found to be present in approximately 90 percent of cases and that 50 percent of those had later gone on and fathered a child. As for those who had undergone a vasoepididymostomy, sperm was found to be present in approximately 65 percent of cases and just 25 percent of those men had later gone on and fathered a child.

If you do intend to go on and have a vasectomy reversal, then you can help improve your chances for a successful operation by finding a surgeon who is experienced in this line of work and particularly with microsurgical procedures.

No one is guaranteed to have their fertility restored unto them. But by selecting a surgeon who as a solid background in microsurgical procedures and by having your vasectomy reversal performed as soon as you can; you can really help to increase your chances of being a father to a newborn child.

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New Study Documents Success of Tubal Ligation Reversal

Many people, including doctors, mistakenly believe that tubal ligation surgery is permanent. A one hour outpatient operation, however, can rejoin the separated segments of fallopian tube so that pregnancy can occur again. Results of a 6 year study of 3,139 women who had tubal reversal surgery show that 69% of the women became pregnant during the study interval (2001-2006). This is the largest and most definitive study in existence providing information on the outcome of tubal ligation reversal.

The recently published Tubal Reversal Pregnancy Study Report 2007 shows that pregnancy rates after surgery ranged from 82% for women under 30 to 41% for women 40 years of age and older. The highest pregnancy rate (87%) was reported by women age 29 or less who underwent reversal of a previous ring or clip method of sterilization.

Tubal segment length measurements were taken during the reversal operations. Women with tubal lengths of 7.5 cm or longer had a pregnancy rate of 80%. The pregnancy rate declined as tubal length decreased, but even women with the shortest tubes (less than 2.5 cm) became pregnant (38%). Although previously unreported in the medical literature, it was discovered during this study that a repaired fallopian tube of any length can result in pregnancy.

One conclusion from this study was that for women who have undergone a tubal ligation procedure and decide later they would like to have more children, tubal reversal surgery is a better option than the alternative treatment of in vitro fertilization (IVF). “The results are clear – across all ages of women included, tubal reversal surgery led to higher numbers of pregnancies and live births than standard IVF procedures. Besides having higher success rates, the one-hour outpatient procedure is less than half the cost of an IVF cycle.” said the study’s author, Dr. Gary Berger.

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About the Author: Dr. Berger is a reproductive surgeon who developed the outpatient tubal reversal procedure at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, a medical facility exclusively for tubal reversal surgery.

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by: Roy Thomsitt

This article is a very personal one, but one I wanted to share with you, as there are always tens of thousands of men considering whether to have a vasectomy reversal.

The desire for a vasectomy reversal can come from two main causes: divorce or relationship break up, and a change in financial circumstances that makes having a baby affordable whereas before, at the time of the vasectomy, it may not have been.

Most commonly, men have a vasectomy in marriage, when they or their partner, or both, have decided they do not want any more babies. The reason does not matter, really, the fact is they have the vasectomy because of that particular relationship.

Should a couple make a decision to have no further children then a male vasectomy is the best option. It is a simple outpatient operation. I always compared it to going to the dentist, except you open your legs instead of your mouth. It is also quite painless, although in my case I did not appreciate the painkiller wearing off while I was driving home, after I was assured it was going to be ok. Using the clutch was not a bundle of fun for the last few miles. But the vasectomy was done, as it is commonly every day for thousands of men around the world. At the time, I never gave a thought for vasectomy reversal in the future.

Many years later I was divorced, and it was not long before I was thinking about having the vasectomy reversed. I was in England then, but later in 1998 I decided I would probably move abroad. I eventually decided on the Philippines as the most suitable country that I would settle in the quickest.

In 1999 I started researching vasectomy reversals, but there were not many places in the UK that I could find on the internet at the time. Eventually, I did find one in my own county, Dorset, so I quickly earmarked that for my eventual vasectomy reversal. By that time, I was firmly of the idea I wanted more children.

In July of 2000, I visited the Philippines for 3 weeks to check out a few possible locations to settle in, and to confirm to myself that it would be the best place for me to live. As it turned out, it was way beyond expectations. The beauty, the friendliness, the warmth, the character of the place and the people, all told me that I was going to the best possible place to escape the cold miserable climate of England.

After the visit, I gave myself just 6 weeks to get myself organised, personally, financially, and business wise, to leave England for good. I knew that getting a vasectomy reversal was not likely to be possible in the Philippines, so if ever I was going to have one, it had to be there and then, while still in England.

I fixed the vasectomy reversal operation for just 3 weeks before I left the country. It was a short outpatient visit to a private hospital some 25 miles away. The operation was done under full anaesthetic, and I recall it being a very relaxed sort of day. By then I had sold my car, and had to rely on a taxi to get me to the hospital and collect me. The lady driver was very sympathetic, and actually very supportive, helping to make it more of a day out than a trip to hospital.

The surgeon was making no promises about the success of the vasectomy reversal, and my chances of fathering any more babies. He told me beforehand that he could usually tell, as soon as opening up a man, whether or not he was likely to have sufficient sperm to produce a child. I wondered what chances he thought I had, but I never saw him afterwards to ask.

My next contact with the surgeon was in 2003. I had been in the Philippines 3 years when I met Mary Ann, my wife. Within 6 weeks of our living together, she was pregnant. I was absolutely over the moon, and one of the first people I told was the surgeon. I also passed on my profound thanks for our little miracle, a baby daughter who now brings delight not just to us, but everyone who meets her.

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Roy Thomsitt is the owner and author of http://www.bouncing-new-baby.com.

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A Unique Medical Facility For Tubal Ligation Reversal
By Gary S Berger MD

Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is a medical facility exclusively for tubal ligation reversal. Focusing on this single procedure is good for tubal reversal patients since they are cared for by staff well versed in every aspect of the operation, as well as in preoperative counseling, postoperative care, and long term follow-up. The Center is the creation of Dr. Gary Berger, a reproductive surgeon who specializes in and limits his practice to tubal reversal procedures.

The reversal procedure takes less than an hour as outpatient surgery. Patients recover within an hour or two. The cost of tubal reversal in the outpatient setting is less than half the cost when this operation is performed in a hospital. A free video or DVD is offered on the website showing the procedure that has been broadcast on Discovery and The Learning Channel.

The Center maintains a long term, follow-up patient database that tracks the pregnancies and pregnancy outcomes of all patients. With results from over 5000 patients, this is the largest follow-up study of pregnancy outcomes after tubal reversal surgery that is available.

Information about pregnancies can reviewed on the Weekly Pregnancy Report Forum of the Tubal Reversal Message Board. Additional details about these pregnancies are provided in New Pregnancy Announcements, and statistical analyses of pregnancy outcomes are also shown in the Pregnancy Statistics pages of the Center’s website. Many patients also send testimonials about their pregnancies and babies.

Further information is available at www.tubal-reversal.net or by contacting one of the Tubal Reversal Nurses who are available 7 days a week to answer questions at (919) 968-4656 and (919) 656-8204.

Gary S Berger, MD Medical Director Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center 109 Conner Drive Suite 2200 Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Tel: (919) 968-4656 Fax: (919) 967-8637 http://www.tubal-reversal.net/
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By Jason Montag

These days science is booming. Scientists are developing and honing procedures that were once difficult and risky and highly unreliable. Previously if a man had a vasectomy and then remarried or just changed his mind and wanted to have children he was basically out of luck. No longer is the idea of reversing a vasectomy a pipe dream. A man that wants to turn back the hands of time to before he had his vasectomy can undergo a vasectomy reversal.

When the procedure of vasectomy reversal was first developed the procedure was a lot more hit and miss, with a whole lot of misses. Nowadays the vasectomy reversal is a relatively successful procedure for a man to undergo. There are a few factors that contribute to the success rate of a vasectomy reversal so the more of these factors that are in line the higher the rate of success. No matter how high the success rate can climb there is never a 100% success rate and there are no guarantees that the vasectomy reversal will actually lead to the birth of a new child.

One pretty large factor of whether or not a vasectomy reversal will produce a child is the length of time since the man had his vasectomy. The shorter the window between the vasectomy and vasectomy reversal the more likely it is that the procedure will be effective. Though it is a good indicator the length of time is not a definite determining factor since there are men that have successful vasectomy reversals after decades of time has elapsed since their original vasectomy. Some other factors can be the length of vas deferens on the testicle side left over from the vasectomy and a small vas deferens gap are two of the many good indicators.

Consult with your doctor and allow them to run the necessary tests and conduct the necessary exams to determine the odds of your vasectomy reversal joining the ranks of successful child producing vasectomy reversals.

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