A quarter of men skip post-vasectomy checks. Not smart, since the procedure has a failure rate that can reach 1 percent.
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I think part of this has to do with education.
I tell my patients they aren’t sterile and shouldn’t consider themselves sterile until they have 2 specimens without sperm. I tell them the first should be at 4 weeks and the second at 8 weeks. If either has any sperm, they need another 4 weeks after.
I try to make it easy for them. Rather come in and leave a sample I look at on our microscope or go to a lab and drop it off.
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