Once the decision is made and circumstances and conditions change to make a man want to reverse his vasectomy, your doctor will need to go through the various things that can affect the chances of reversal.  Even though vasectomies can be done as outpatient surgery any surgery is still a serious proposition.  The quality of the original surgery will determine whether the reversal will be successful.  If it is determined that the original vasectomy surgery was not very good you may want to consider vasectomy reversal alternatives.

If you desire to have more children after a vasectomy, but do not want to go through the reversal procedure, there are several good vasectomy reversal alternatives.  Here are a few.  Sperm banking is the process by which sperm is stored frozen after being removed from the vas deferens or testicles.  This will allow you the vasectomy reversal alternative of in vitro fertilization when you decide you want another child.

Other vasectomy reversal alternatives include Therapeutic Donor Insemination and Sperm Aspiration.  Therapeutic Donor Insemination is the use of an outside sperm donor to help you and your spouse conceive.  The donated sperm will be implanted into your spouse’s uterus during ovulation.  Success rates for this process range between five and twenty five percent.

Sperm aspiration can be done in two manners.  One involves the removal of sperm from the epydidmis above the vas deferens.  A fine needle is inserted and a small amount of fluid is removed.  Testicular Sperm Extraction involves the use of a biopsy needle to remove a small amount of tissue from the testicles.  The tissue will have some sperm cells that can be used for in vitro fertilization.

Non surgical sperm aspiration results in few side effects.  The most common are minor infections at the biopsy sites and can be treated with topical and oral antibiotics.  If your spouse is open to in vitro fertilization or other methods of artificial insemination then you have found a few vasectomy reversal alternatives that will work for you.