[Closed] On my way to get the snip!

How long before you can service the machine again?

How do you know 100% that you wont need it again one day?
Im happy and a family guy but nothing is certain in life is it?

Because I'm happy with the kids I have and don't want any more. I'm 40 this year and don't see it being a realistic need in the future. Also if we do want anymore, we will apply to adopt.

rmgdsc76 - Member
How long before you can service the machine again?
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The way they look at the minute it's going to be a while. 😯

You sure they did not take something extra away leaving you with one ... 😯

Cost me £25 30 yrs ago; private with a local anaesthetic. I remember lying there with my nuts in a steel kidney dish watching smoke wafting up to the ceiling. The clinic was on the same street that staff (predominantly female)from a packaging factory walked along at the end of their shift. I came out the clinic at 5.15pm which had a long footpath to a gate onto the street. There were hordes of them walking past. I remember thinking "****, they know what this place is"!! So I did my best nonchalant walk down the path to the gate and got in my car. There was a bunch of them pissin' themselves laughing and taking the mick. As I got in the car, I looked down and the cotton wool padding they had dressed my nuts with was hanging out of my zip; which I'd forgotten to do up in my hurry to get out.
Anywhoo; my mates got me a tee shirt printed with IOFB on the front, and I wore it every Friday for months afterwards.
Best £25 I ever spent and absolutely no problems or issues; except it doesn't it doesn't get tested as much these days.

Safe to say it's a lot more than £25 to go private these days!

How do you know 100% that you wont need it again one day?

I love my two kids more than anything, the most precious and amazing things I have been involved with.

But I was mid-30s when we started, I was 40 when I had the snip. I [u]never[/u] want to have any more for a whole heap of reasons - health, financial, age are just some.

If I end up back on the market for a woman with child bearing aspirations, she just can't have kids with me. It will be part of the package. She will have to be with me in order to be with [u]me[/u], and not with a view to us having our own family.

I realise I may well die a lonely and bitter old man on the back of this. Or I might get divorced first..... 😉

Done under a general 8 yrs ago, along with some cysts removed, not long after youngest was born. Bit achy for 3 months or so afterwards, otherwise fine. If I'd known I was gonna get prostate cancer requiring surgery 7 yrs later might not have bothered 🙄

Yep, I agree. At the time, I was 28, we had two sons. All we wished for (despite problems with both at birth). We decided that was enough so I went for the snip, not wishing my wife to have to take responsibility and the health risks of contraception. My attitude was that even if I failed as a husband; I'd still be a Dad. Thankfully all is good 30 yrs down the line. So, for me, best £25 ever spent.

How do you know 100% that you wont need it again one day?

Oh, I know. Fool me once...

Genuine question ... do people (particularly STW folks) practice backdoor to avoid some of the unwanted responsibilities?

😛

Also if we do want anymore, we will apply to adopt.

Might be easier and quicker to get a reversal.

Mrs toppers is an adoption social worker.

I love your genuine questions chewwy. And there's so many of them.

Off back to the docs this morning. Still very swollen and very painful. Can't walk very far and standing up is very uncomfortable. Which is annoying because I need to stand up all day for work. Hopefully he's got some ideas. 😯

oh dear - hope it's nothing serious.

One of my colleagues ended up with a scrotal abcess (do not google this) and was incapacitated for some time whilst the pus drained out. Did I say not to google it? Don't. Just don't.

I've a nasty feeling that's what this is. I have no intention of googling it.

Former colleague of mine got an infection and was off work 2 months, unable to wear anything but extra long t-shirts. Much to the concern of his 15 year old daughter!

two words of advice for the bruising - tight underpants

I really wish I hadn't googled that. Its put me off my lunch.

Op sorry to hear that, but genuinely rather you than me 😀

BTW are you receiving sympathy from Mrs Topper or the "try having a baby" response to any complaints ?

Hmm thread has me considering cancelling my appointment 😕

[i]I really wish I hadn't googled that.[/i]

did I mention that you shouldn't google it? Don't google it. Really.

There was a nice female trainee nurse sitting in on mine. About halfway though she had to sit down because SHE was feeling a bit queezy, FFS.

How do you know 100% that you wont need it again one day?
Im happy and a family guy but nothing is certain in life is it?

I'm 44. The idea of a 16 year old at 60 fills me with terror.

Mrblobby - you'll always get the scare stories on these threads. For most people it's not a big deal, just read the info and actually follow it, not thinking 'Pah, I'm fine. I'll go for a 30 mile CX ride in boxer shorts'. Week tucked away in tighty whiteys (Mr Beckhams finest from H&M are very comfy, I'd not worn 'briefs' since I was old enoguh to buy my own) and you're pretty much back to normal.

I know wwaswas, but I couldn't help myself. Its a bit like when my mate said, "Don't try to bike across that drainage pipe. Its slippery". I sometimes wonder how I ever made it to my age.

tallmart10 - definitely don't put a £100 in my paypal account 😉

Ah, I see what you did there.. 🙂