Re: [epilepsy] Re: Infertility problems due to Eplepsy and Depakote

 

On 9/30/2012 4:20 PM, Matthew Ford wrote:
>
> My infertility (or what ever you call it for Men) is because I was
> sexually
> fixed at age 14. Since I was a Teenager, they didn't need my consent.
> Instead, my parents would be out in the hall, talking to the doctor about
> what he feels would be best, and signing the papers.
>
> I know that in today's procedures, when a man gets "fixed", the tubes get
> lifted up and kinked (like a kink in a garden hose), then they get tied up
> to keep them in that position. Easy to reverse when the guy grows up and
> seriously wants to have kids.
>
> When I had it done though, it was evidently more intense, as my Urologist
> told me I can't be reconnected as the entire tube is missing. It got
> amputated in other words. Yet I've been told by a few doctors...that's how
> it was done back in the 70's and 80's, particularly on people with Brain
> Disorders.
>
> So no chance of me ever having kids, either!
>
> Matthew
>
Matthew, Indirectly, I feel for you. My (ex)wife n' I separated in
1997, at 4.75yrs. of marriage(I divorced her at 8.5yrs. of marriage).
We had two kids who are now teenagers(16 n' 18). After my daughter was
born, my parents' n' my (ex)wife's parents' tried to convince me to have
a vasectomy. But I adamantly refused, so my (ex)wife had her tubes
tied. Then in 2003, I thought about again, after my (ex)fiance gave
birth to our son. This time, I questioned my fiance's emotional support
that I would need following the procedure, so I again did not do it.
Then in 2007, when we separated, I move back into a parent's house.
They tried again to get me to get it. But I refused. Because I did
research on the procedure, and since I had been through brain surgery
six times by 9yrs.-old(1976) for a brain aneurysm that caused
hydrocephalus and the surgeries caused epilepsy. I would rather go
through that again, than a mistake by a general surgeon on a vasectomy.

I don't want anymore kids anyway.

Christopher

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