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To ask my partner for a vasectomy

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Foreveranxious22 · 17/10/2022 06:28

Ok so this is something that keeps coming up with me and my partner and I would like some impartial advice if you have any please.
My and DP have been together 10+ years, 2DC. Not an easy time getting here as I have had multiple miscarriages so I know I’m done having children.
I am super sensitive to contraceptives, I’ve already been on two after having my DD 6 months ago. I get very moody, have whiplash mood swings and sometimes I’m bordering on depressed. I was like this after my first daughter too so I know it’s related to the pill.

Last month we had a pregnancy scare as I had come of my previous pill as I wasn’t myself. This scared us so I agreed I’d try another pill and after advice from my GP I’m currently on rigevidon but same old story as previous contraception. I have mentioned a vasectomy to my DP before but he’s said no as he’s very very squeamish. I made a deal with him when I went on rigevidon that I’d continue taking it so long as he got booked in with the GP for a vasectomy as it can take 52 weeks in our area on the NHS. He’s not even rang the docs and has now changed his tune saying he won’t get one. Am I in the wrong to be upset about this? He knows how bad the pill affects me and I’ve sent him loads of research on the snip from mens POV and they’re a no horror stories. AIBU? Any advice for either of us?

OP posts:
AloysiusBear · 17/10/2022 06:44

What about a copper coil OP?

No hormones, no babies :) doctors are quiet about it (they were paid to push hormonal versions) but its a great solution and it costs the NHS pence.

InsertPunHere · 17/10/2022 06:44

Yanbu! After what your body has been through he can get over his damned squeamishness - or not have sec.

BananaSplitX · 17/10/2022 06:42

Why not use condoms??? I am in my late 40s and I have never been on the pill. My husband is happy using condoms. If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t be my husband. I have never been in favour of putting unnecessary hormones in my body. I know it works for some, but not for me. My body, my choice.

TuxedoJunction · 17/10/2022 06:41

Can I ask how old you both are Op?

AriettyHomily · 17/10/2022 06:40

'D'h is the same. We haven't had sex for well over a year now.

ChaosMoon · 17/10/2022 06:39

He needs to get it done. I've got 3 friends who've had it done in the last year and they've all been fine.

Squeamish. Ffs.

ChiefPearlClutcher · 17/10/2022 06:37

YANBU
I would refuse sex completely till it’s done. And I believe it can take up to a year to be ‘in the clear’ so he had best get his skates on!

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