How many of yall have actually gotten sterilized?
I’m curious to see how many people have actually gone and gotten these procedures done, as well as maybe some demographics like age and gender and what procedure you got done be it vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophrectomy, or any others I don’t know of yet. Also maybe talk about how hard it was to get and the cost of doing so.
I’m a cis man living in Oregon. I got a vasectomy done when I was 20 years old. My insurance wouldn’t cover it so I paid cash, which surprisingly was only $850 or so.
The surgery itself was super chill and took less than a half hour from getting in the chair to getting up. I chose not to get the nitrous cause it would’ve been $100 more and the only reason I was tempted was cause nitrous is very fun. But I could get a lot more for $100 down at the smoke shop and get to enjoy it more lol. Which at the time I did do pretty often. Anyway the surgery was fun and I held my head up to watch the entire thing. I was also chatting to the doctor and nurse the entire time.
Overall I was super lucky I was able to get it done right in the town I love in for a price I could afford pretty easily (at the time I sure as hell couldn’t anymore) and that the surgeon I found was cool about it even through I’m so young. He told me that up until the last couple of years he probably wouldn’t have done it for someone under around 30 that doesn’t have kids. Which of course is so fucked up. Like if you don’t think I’m mature enough to know I don’t want to produce offspring then why THE FUCK WOULD I BE MATURE ENOUGH TO CREATE A FUCKING CHILD. Glad he had matured himself and realized that getting a vasectomy ought to be up to the patient and not gatekept because of the selfish desire so many people do have to reproduce.