I don’t want to discount others’ stories, I’m sure at least many of them are true. Every body is different and every doctor is different. It still seems to be an all-around safer approach to birth control with less frequent side effects than the methods there are for women, at least to my understanding.

My partner is on enough meds for other things that figuring out a hormone balancing routine on top of that seemed burdensome. When I got my gallbladder removed, I told them to just add on the vasectomy while I was out already.

I was a bit concerned when I woke up, as I thought it was supposed to be relatively painless and my crotch was killing me worse than the pain from the gallbladder stuff. Once I could stand up though, I figured out the supporter they put on my had been bunched up and was cutting off circulation or pinching a nerve or something like that, so once I fixed that, it was just mild discomfort.

It’s nice not having to worry about the effectiveness of other birth control methods now. I found the whole concept very liberating. I’d whole-heartedly recommend it, but like any other operation, there is going to be a non-zero chance of risk. For most people, it’s a mundane thing you will rapidly forget you even did it, but like anything else, the people who take the time to post about it are going to be the ones with negative experiences, so diy research can end up being a bit disproportionate.