Anyone TTC after vasectomy reversal op?

[spamanderson]

Hi! Newbie to the forums :) we have 2 children, 7 and 5 and hubby had a vasectomy almost 5 years ago.... Almost as soon as our youngest was born. He realised quickly after that it was a big mistake. We're speaking with our chosen surgeon in a week and booking the reversal, then it's all aboard the TTC train as soon as he's all healed up :) would love to have some buddies along the way :) it's going to be a fairly long journey I feel, our eldest took a year to conceive our youngest took 9 months with a early mc in between.
Sam x

Well.... Bad news :( they took him down and about 40 minutes later the surgeon came through and said they couldn't proceed. My poor heart started racing and I felt all my colour disappear. They'd got him sedated, tubed him and were about to start and he projectile vomited.... A lot. He got everyone apparently! They think he has a hiatus hernia which causes the fluid to stay there and obviously came up when he laid down. It explains why he gets acid reflux etc a lot. Thank goodness he is ok, I was so upset thinking he was unwell. He's been booked in again for 3 weeks time and will likely have to be awake and do an epidural next time! He's at home now feeling rather frustrated and pissed off to be fair. 3 more weeks to wait now and 5 weeks until we try. My birthday shall be spent caring for my invalid husband ha ha!

Oh no, thank god he's ok . I can't imagine how frustrated he feels bless him, and you of course, the wait is bad enough but I think you mentally prepare yourself for it to happen at a certain time. Very brave of him to be awake next time. Hopefully you can spend the weekend looking after each other x

Poor thing still isn't quite right this morning but he's had to go back to work. He's extra miserable as obviously he thought he was getting this week off work. I've been exhausted now for a couple of weeks, like beyond tired, so bad I've been going to bed by 8 at night, last night I was in bed by 20 past 6, been feeling nauseas in the mornings too so in the back of my mind my head has been nagging at me telling me maybe it's fate telling me that his vasectomy has fixed itself.... I know it's stupid but my hormones are playing with me at the moment. I did do a cheapy test this morning and a faint line came up in the first 2 minutes but disappeared. I think it's just a dodgy test as it's certainly not a positive but that hasn't helped my emotional state :/ oh well, 2 weeks and 4 days and he'll hopefully be out of surgery and the 2 week rest begins :/ I'm panicking now that maybe they'll still charge us for last Friday even though they didn't do anything to him other that anaesthetise him?

I couldn't wait, so I called the hospital and they confirmed they've carried the payment over. The receptionists remembered him the poor thing. Hubby did thoroughly enjoy being waited on hand and foot Friday and Saturday and most of yesterday. I have the worst beside manner so that served as practice for me at least ha ha! He's thinking about asking the hospital if they can book him in any earlier but I think he needs the rest. That whole fiasco has taken it out of both of us :(

Hi how are you and the hubby doing? Have you decided to try for an earlier appointment? If not looks like we can join the January bus together lol! Our bodies really are cruel I've taken a prgnancy test before, after AF was really late and I'm a 28 day every cycle kind of girl, no chance of it being positive but I still was dissapointed when it was negative.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Blooming thing was playing tricks on me :( I've got my regular spot explosion on my chin, joy, wonderful periods, I always get them about day 10 and they hang around for a good week or 2 :( it's not fair I tell ya! Yeah I shall be on the January bus with you. My period is apparently due 4th/5th January. Hubby will be hopefully healed up by my fertile time in December. Just hit to blooming well hope the operation goes smoothly this time and it all works afterwards. Oh god, what if it's not successful?! We certainly can't afford to pay this out then fork out for ivf etc!
We're good thanks :) hubby is feeling more like himself again, still a bit tired but better :) we now have the stress of fixing the windscreen before the MOT is due on the car in a week or so. Seriously, this seems to happen every year! A chip we didnt know about, always in that dark edge on the glass, turns into a proper windscreen ruining crack, just before the MOT! Hubby reminded me he has next Wednesday off work, it's our anniversary on Tuesday but he couldn't get that off! 9 years! That's almost a 3rd of my life! Shocking! In 10 years I'll be saying 'omg we've been together half my life' that will be really weird!
How are you and hubby getting on? Is he looking forward to getting his op done?
It'd be so cool if both the ops go perfectly and we get bfps at the same time :)

We were really excited but now its getting closer I think he has started to think about what if it doesn't work and then he thinks he will be letting me down, I'm more of a don't think about it until it happens kind of person. We'll just do the best job of making sure those tubes heal, hubby has hinted we could DTD before the 2 weeks are up and I know someone mentioned that they have done that but I don't want to risk putting extra pressure on them when they arent fully healed. I've lost my phone so I have no idea whats happening with my cycle, I'm gutted I've lost all that information its ridiculous my phone knows me better than I know myself

Oh no! Stupid question but do you have any idea where you lost it? I left mine in the car when we were in Birmingham and had such a panic, convinced I'd lost it :( How did we manage without phones, tablets and the Internet?! I am addicted to my gadgets!
Yep same here, 2 weeks for us, unless he's still sore in any way of course! He will be resting on the sofa for the week and if he's not right after that week, I will be making him get to the drs and get signed off another week! £2.5k is just too much money to risk wasting if a week at work is the difference between things healing right and not.
I keep trying not to get my hopes up but as I've wanted another for so long, I have names lined up, boys and girls middle names are set in stone then there a couple of each first names that we love. I know we might not be lucky enough to get pregnant again but I can't stop myself from hoping :(

I've just started a January bus in case there's any others like us who can't start TTC-ing until December :)

I cant find it, I'll just have to wait and see when AF arrives, urgh! Its so hard not to get your hopes up, I spent most of my adult life thinking getting pregnant would be the worst thing that could happen and now its all I want. I will have a visit to to the January bus, I am a obsessive lurker of the November bus, it cheers me up when some one gets a BFP!

Did you find your phone? Hubby had his pre op blood test AGAIN today ha ha. Fingers crossed that goes ok and this time in 9 days, there'll be a fixed hubby relaxing on the sofa! Not long now is it! I've been doing my temp and using a fertility app and now having a panic that I'm not ovulating. Day 18 so far and nothing :( it'll be just our luck that hubby gets fixed, then it turns out I'm infertile now or something :/

Not found it but AF found me this week so at least I know where I am again. Its so close now, I've realised I am not a patient person at all. Maybe your cycles just havent returned to normal yet after BC? xx

:( I'd seriously lose my mind without my phone! I got my positive opk yesterday yippee! Day bloomin 19! Not had any of the other ovulation signs though so I'm hoping I have actually ovulated! It's not long now but it feels like forever doesn't it! How's your hubby holding up? Getting nervous?

Not long now!! 3 days! Are you getting excited or nervous? Hubby us getting a bit nervous now as we're not sure how they're going to deal with him. They're ither going to tube him and knock him out or give him a spinal. I'm being selfish but I hope he goes for the spinal but he's worried about side effects etc. I have 2 cakes to bake and decorate by Friday but I just can't concentrate! I just want it to be Friday already :(
I've started using a new app and it shows my fertile period this month is over Christmas :) a Christmas conception would be awesome :)

Hubby is more nervous it won't work than the actual op I think. I hope everything goes perfect for you this time. You're so lucky it'll be my fertile time while hubby is recovering so then it won't be until January for me boo. Christmas conception would be a nice present for you. Am already nervous for the spearmint test in three months lol xx

Yes same here, hubby is worried more about the op, I'm more worried about it not working :( don't know what we'll do if it doesn't work. Not like you just have £2.5k lying around to have another try is it :( I'm so so desperate for baby number 3 :( I figure as long as something is getting through, even if numbers are terribly low, at least we can work with it :)

Good luck to you both for the op tomorrow :D

Thank you, all very real now! I was looking at a surgeon that does micro surgery specialising in vasectomy reversals that have failed the first time but like you say it's not like we can afford it anyway lol. I've just turned down a new job in the hope that this will work and in the near future I'll get pregnant fingers crossed. You all ready? X

Hi, I just want to wish you luck, my dp had a vasectomy reversal last November, I concieved in january but sadly miscarried then concieved again in june and am now 24 weeks pregnant.

Eek it's so exciting isn't it! Do you have to leave bright and early in the morning? Does DH have to stay overnight?
Sorry to hear of your loss smiling. Our surgeon told us about increased risk of early MC which did get me a bit worried :( so pleased to hear you're doing well and expecting a little one! May I ask how long your DP/DH had had his vasectomy done before he had the reversal?

It had been 4 years.

My miscarriage was most likely due to my bicornuate uterus and was a second trimester loss so nothing to do with the reversal.

Oh I'm sorry :(

Thank you spam but the point of my post was to wish you all luck and give you a positive story.

it was a horrible experience but im now pregnant and everything is looking good so reversals are successful

Thank you, so sorry to hear about your loss. Congratulations it's so good to hear, I feel like I've read that many negative stories I've got all worried x

Thank you smiling. So pleased your DPs op was successful :) I definitely have hope all goes well with ours (I say ours like its me having it done ha ha) on Friday and Mr mrsstickll 's tomorrow :D