Comments on: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/04/quarter-of-men-skip-post-vasectomy.html medical blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:35:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Domenico Savatta, M.D. http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/04/quarter-of-men-skip-post-vasectomy.html/comment-page-1#comment-61986 Domenico Savatta, M.D. Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:16:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/04/20421.html#comment-61986 I think part of this has to do with education.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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. 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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