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Tinkering with your body will always have consequences!!

by Wendy

I just recently did a search for male sterilization and was appalled to read about how much trouble they have after being "snipped." Obviously, I love my husband too much to ask him to undergo something that will cause him health problems.
http://dontfixit.org/files/What_Happens_to_a_Man.pdf
http://dontfixit.org/ and http://dontfixit.org/quotes.asp
http://www.vasectomy.md/Risk.htm
http://www.totse.com/en/technology/science_technology/vasect.html
(I put a few snipets below.)

I then decided to see what the risks for female sterilization were and that is how I found this site. I figured if a simple procedure like a vasectomy would have a long list of complications, a tubal would also. I wasn't disappointed. Thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Drs either don't know, don't believe the findings or do not care, so it is up to us to help inform each other. I applaude your efforts, have compassion for your suffering and admire your work. Thank you for educating me where a Dr would not.

Any time we alter our bodies and make them work in a way they are not suppose to work, there will be complications. I no longer see sterilization as "getting fixed" but instead as "being broken." Why would I want to endanger my health? Honestly, I'd rather have several more children who will bring us joy and keep us young than try to prevent them with a procedure that makes me ill for the rest of my life.


***********snipets**********

Family physicians should be aware of the potential effects and complications of vasectomy so they can appropriately counsel patients seeking sterilization. Vasectomy produces anatomic, hormonal and immunological changes and... has been reputed to be associated with atherosclerosis, prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and urolithiasis [kidney stones]. Complications of vasectomy include overt failure, occasional sperm in the ejaculate, hematoma, bleeding, infection, sperm granuloma, congestive epididymitis [post-vasectomy pain syndrome], antisperm antibody formation and psychogenic impotence.

Complication of Vasectomy, by Dr. R. F. Raspa, the Journal of the American Family Physician, 1993.

Do You Care To Be A Lab Rat?

Hundreds of medical research articles and several books by numerous doctors over the last three decades have examined the issues of vasectomy and the effects the procedure can have on the body. A partial list of these articles can be found in the reference section of the www.dontfixit.org web site. Unfortunately, much of that information has been well concealed from the public eye. Studies and cases have described findings of increased incidences of many disorders, including:

· Adrenal gland dysfunction
· Atheosclerosis (hardening of the arteries leading to heart disease)
· Autoimmune orchitis (degeneration of testicular tissues due to antibody action)
· Chronic inflammation including the formation of sperm granulomas
· Chronic testicular pain (Post-Vasectomy Pain Syndrome)
· Circulatory problems including phlebitis
· Congestive and infectious epididymitis
· Decreased testicular function including changes in testosterone production
· Diabetes
· Erectile dysfunction/impotence
· Gangrene of the scrotum and other serious infections
· Generalized lymph node enlargement
· Hypoglycemia
· Life-long autoimmune (allergic) responses
· Liver dysfunction
· Loss of libido
· Lung cancer
· Lupus
· Migraine and other related headaches
· Multiple myeloma
· Multiple sclerosis
· Narcolepsy
· Neuropathy (nerve pain and damage)
· Non-Hodgkins lymphoma
· Personality disturbances
· Prostate cancer
· Prostatitis
· Pulmonary embolism
· Rheumatoid arthritis
· Scrotal and epididymal cyst formation including Spermatocele and Hydrocele cysts
· Staph infections including infections of the heart valves
· Testicular atrophy (shrinking of the testicles)
· Testicular cancer
· Urolithiasis (kidney stones).
· Vasitis nodosa (chronic inflammation of the vas deferens)

According to Dr. Talma Samuel and Dr. Noel Rose in the 1980 Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Immunology, “Having been induced by the individual’s own untreated [sperm] antigen… the response [to vasectomy] justifies the most rigorous definition of autoimmunity. The wide scale use of vasectomy, therefore, provides the clinical immunologist with a unique opportunity to study a longstanding, induced autoimmune response in otherwise normal human subjects.”



Posted on Jun 22, 2004, 7:16 AM

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