Vasectomy reversal success??

[terrier141]

Does anyone have experience of this? Hubby has just had it done and we are nervously awaiting the outcome!

Has anybody had acupuncture ? I currently have a basket at Zita West's site full of vitamins, a relaxation CD and i'm considering their telephone counselling service, needless to say DH thinks I've gone mad.

I suppose it is about time i wrote a message on here as i have been reading the thread for about 3 months now.
My boyfriend has his reversal on 10 october this year and like yourselves hoping for a miracle. a very impressive miracle in my case as i had one of my falopean tubes removed in may.

welshlinz- congrats and you give us all hope that these things do actually work.

I remember the first time i told my mum what we were planning and she just said "you know it doesnt work" which wasnt all that supportive but i think she just doesnt want me to get my hopes up too much. I am 28 so still young but not sure exactly what state my one tube is in and boyfriends initial vasectomy was done over 10 years so I really am praying against all the odds.

Purple I shall add you to my prayer list and keep everything crossed for you !

It's so hard not to get your hopes up isn't it, but I have heard of one man who went on to have three more after a vasectomy 10 years + so miracles can happen

Hi everyone,
just checking in to see how you all are!

Hope all goes well with the scan Thurs linz.

And girls Im in the "ancient" 33 year old gang too so lets hope its a lucky number!

Its getting busy on this thread now - its hard to keep up with where everyones at (or maybe its just my age!!)

Take care xx

Purpledazzle- welcome to the thread no one wants to be a member of! I will have evrything crossed for you.

KatieDD - you sound as bad as me. I have spent a small fortune of vitmains, supplments and organic food trying to up our odds ( none of its done fuck all but at least you feel like you are actually doing something while waiting

I dont know about you lot but I for one am sacking off the healthy eating and no booze and getting really pissed this xams excuse my swearing but I have just been to visit a colleague today with her 6 week old beautiful baby girl and I could sob for hours wishing it was me, so am an a elf destruct this xmas...cheers ladies

ha ha! an xmas typo "elf destruct" LOL! Obv I meant self destruct

Love it, at least we can still laugh

Hi all, I've had to have a slight name change as I was getting paranoid that RL persons might have figured out who I am through the name x

Hope everyone is well. Got nothing to report but wanted to check in. Pink, get the booze down you over xmas and enjoy yourself

Will drop in tomorrow with an update on my scan. Aaaarrrghhhh!!! Very scared today x

Hello
Everyone I need to pick your brains about this please.
I went to see the consultant today about my treatment - £150, now when I get there the first thing he asks for is my bloody tests which I could have done yet because I hadn't had a period, actually am having them done tomorrow.
So he goes through a few things and I'm literally in there 10 mins and then he says I need to book a follow up appointment, another £100 to discuss the blood tests results.
Does this sound a bit unfair as I couldn't have had the results as they take 6 weeks from collection anyway and if he needed them first surely he shouldn't have booked the appointment so quickly DH and I were only there last week.
I kind of get the impression we're going to get milked here, is that other peoples experience.
And the receptionist was a bit sharp when I said I was only in there 10 mins and said that was more than the NHS patients got, well they aren't paying £6k are they.
Honestly I'll be very glad when this is all over.
Looking forward to hearing about the scan Linz, good night all
x

Hi Katie, that does not sound fair at all about the consultant. If they knew it would take a certain number of weeks for the results to come through it was up to them to make the appointment at a date to correspond surely. It does sound like an extra way of fleecing money out of you

Well, went for scan and the baby is doing great
Heart beat nice and srong and was doing somersaults on the screen kicking its arms and legs about. Feel a lot more settled now about things.

Still praying for you all to get your BFPs real soon so we can all go through this together x

Congratulations WL that's the best news !

Take care everyone and have a lovely Christmas

Thats fab news "Christmas"! AF due today for me but Im very doubtful of getting a BFP cos dh was very poorly with man flu this month so very little BD'ing got done! xx

hi all. Terrier, any news on AF ??

yes terrier any news?

I have worked out that almost to the day - this time 7.9 years ago I conceived my DS

God how I wish it would happen again.

Hi Ladies....just to give you all hope. My dh had a vasectomy reversal (it has been renamed in our house as a resurectomy). It was done on the NHS. (I got an early appointment by calling up every week and inquiring about cancellations and finally they got so sick of me that they gave him a much earlier appointment). Afterward the surgery, at the first sperm check, he was told that he had a few non-motile sperm. And then on the second check he was told that there were no sperm at all and that the reversal had been a failure. We were all set to try another reversal privately while doing IVF at the same time. BUT, before we had a chance I got pregnant (on our honeymoon) and a year later got pregnant again. After getting pregnant, I went back to the surgeon and asked why he had told us it was a failure when it wasn't and he said that sometimes the vas swells after surgery and closes up and then over time opens up again (don't know why he didn't share that possibility with us in the first place). Anyway....best of luck to all of you....hope our story gives you hope.

Thanks Sofia (what a beautiful name BTW) I love a good hope story

Sorry girls - no xmas announcment from me - spiteful AF arrived yesterday - nasty witch .
Was really hoping for an extra special xmas pressie but I guess it wasnt to be - never mind i ought to be used to it by now.

Pink - dont give up hope, and I agree what a lovely hope story - just what we need to keep our spirits up over Xmas - talking of spirits - as we have no reason to abstain - would you care to join me in a virtual xmas drink?? Mines a large one!

Welsh - just read your post on another thread about your early ov!! I think my dh is gonna be worn out next month!! xx

Welsh - just read the post terrier referred to about early OV (any more advice like that please please post on here as I dont read TTC threads - find it too depressing being the only one left on there with no BFP every month! and wouldnt have seen this valuable info without terrier pointing it out )

Can I ask you a Q about that. I often get EWCM at the same time as you mention (days 8 and 9 this cycle) but am assuming I still on ov later on as my temp doesn't go up til day 16 or so. Did your temp only go up at day 15 (based on FF prediciting ov day 14) or did it go up at day 9??????

please please notice this and answer Am really really intrigued and worried about this Hope you doing OK btw

Pink - I only noticed welsh's post cos im really nosy and read a thread I know one of my best friends is on (she does know this btw!), and happened to spot Welsh's post there. I dont read those ttc threads anymore either - I did join a few in the begining but god it gets so depressing!
Am very interested in what welsh said though, because despite all the charting etc we may actually be completely missing our chances (there is also a thread on here where someone conceived really late in cycle too!). This month dh and I have agreed to just cover all bases, Im gonna try for every other day and hope for the best.
Can I be really cheeky and ask how much the IVF will cost please? I'd really like to look into it but dh is dead against because he says its too traumatic, the more info im armed with the better I can sell the idea to him - saying that I cant imagine where the money would come from!!

Hi girls, really sorry for posting on there and not on here aswell . I knew you did the temp charting etc.. so thought it wouldn't be of any help x

Pink, I never charted my temps so can't tell you if they went back up later in my cycle, sorry. I just went off what FF was telling me basically based on the length of my cycle and when I thought I was having CM.

I just happened to notice that straight after AF finished I had EWCM ( more than when I technically should have been having around CD14 ) and ahem... I was always slightly more frisky around this time too .

It was only at the dating scan that I worked the dates backwards and figured out it matched exactly with the EWCM around CD 8 so we were well missing the fertile slot every month. That must have been why I got a BFP a week before AF was even due !!

Hope this helps xx You know I definately would have posted on here if I thought it would have been any use to you girls but if I think of anything else I will always post on this one x

My DH's worked within 26 days!! He had had vasectomy 10 years previously. I was 36 he was 44 we were told that with our ages and the long time between vasectomy and reversal that we only had someting like 30% chance of successs. Weren't we pleased when 26 days later I was preggers??. We have two boys now ...and he has had another vasectomy. He's a brave boy!!

Thanks Marge thats a lovely story to keep our spirits up! I know its still classed as early days for us (8mths since op) but cant help feeling it would have happened by now if it had worked

welsh - you know we'll try anything on this thread - clutch at any straws!! Just keep updating us on how your getting on, and pass on any snippets of advice from others on the "pregnancy" board!

Have a lovely xmas everyone XX

Dont worry welsh - I know you wouldnt not put it here on purpose I guess I am clutching at straws as Terrier says!

I also feel much friskier earlier in my cycle but my temp only goes up after about day 15/16/17 so I guess I must be ovulating later on - its so confuing I am not sure me or DH could manage every other day throughout the cycle as DH is working 10 hour days sotimes 7 days a week as his new job is so poorly paid we have to.

Terrier - the IVF will cost approx £5000 becuase if you have sperm issues you have to have ICSI as well as IVF. Although we may see if we can try a couple of goes at IUI first which is about £500-900 a go.

PLease keep posting here linz, we may be jealous (well i am )but you are our beacon of hope

have just had some really bad news today is three months since my boyfriends reversal and the sperm test came back negative. am completely disheartened and have no idea what to do. ivf is so expensive and would take forever to save up for meanwhile is it possible to have a negative then a positive? i hope so.