Plus vasectomy sounds scary painful and potentially dangerous. I'm done having kids but I don't wanna get snipped. Granulomas? In MY testicles? It's more likely than I think.
I had a vasectomy done in my early thirties. Can't complain, really.
It was a short operation and I'd much rather re-do that than go to the dentist and have my cavities drilled. The side-effects mentioned in the article aren't really a problem, at least in my part of the world. Hadn't even heard of them myself, actually.
After the operation, my balls were a bit swollen for a few days but it didn't hurt and I was back in bed on maybe 3rd of 4th day. Everything has been like before except that I score an exact 0% in the fertility test. And have lots of fun with my wife without anybody having to remember to take pills or enjoy some extra hormones (which I wouldn't like).
I probably would have traded messing with condoms or my wife's contraceptives to this new solution. But now that a vasectomy became an option anyway, I wouldn't have had much incentive to even try it out.
Vasectomy isn't that bad. The procedure is moderately unpleasant but short (20-30 minutes), and the recovery is a few days of groin ache, easily treated by the topical application of a bag of frozen peas.
