• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It is not six months. I was told by my doctor it was roughly one month, 30 days, and that was the time frame in which I was tested for before and after.

    It can, in some situations, take up to three months at the outside. But definitely not six.

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      7 months ago

      I am glad it was short for you, but it varies in general. For some people it doesn’t take long. For others, it takes longer. For some, reconnection occurs so it is important to check again 1 year after the vasectomy.

      15-20 ejaculations typically clear any remaining sperm, but again none of this is universal and it needs to be tested.

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        7 months ago

        You absolutely do need to follow your doctor’s recommendations and get a sperm count done at the prescribed times. But just blithely saying “it takes six months” to people is going to set them up with the wrong idea.