Post by jonesdaines on Jan 21, 2011 4:12:25 GMT -6
Hello. My name is Georgina and I am 31 years old. My husband is 45 years old and has 4 children from a previous marriage. My husband and I have been looking into a vasectomy reversal and he was actually booked in to have the operation on the 16th June 2009. On the 1st june 2009 he had a heart attack. He was very lucky to survive as he had 4 cardiac arrests straight after the heart attack and during one of the cardiac arrests I lost him for 4 minutes. We of course had to cancel the reversal operation due to his health and rehabilitation programme at the hospital.
To cut a long story short he is now as healthy as he can be and we are now really wanting to try for a baby. The problem we are having is that because my husband has diabetes and suffered a heart attack, he is deemed as a moderate risk patient with regards to general anasthetic, due to there being some permanent damage to his heart. We have been turned down by our local private hospital so have been looking further a field. We have read online that a reversal can be performed by local anasthetic and sedation and now we are trying to find a doctor that does it this way. So far, we have been unable to find one that does it with a local rather than a general anasthetic. We have been told the risk of death is high for my husband if he has a general anasthetic.
Our other option is IVF using ICSI techniques but we can't afford it. I have also considered egg donation as this reduces the price of your IVF treatment considerably but my husband really wants to have a reversal so we are trying everything we can and doing as much research as possible on this, before we rule it out completely.
To cut a long story short he is now as healthy as he can be and we are now really wanting to try for a baby. The problem we are having is that because my husband has diabetes and suffered a heart attack, he is deemed as a moderate risk patient with regards to general anasthetic, due to there being some permanent damage to his heart. We have been turned down by our local private hospital so have been looking further a field. We have read online that a reversal can be performed by local anasthetic and sedation and now we are trying to find a doctor that does it this way. So far, we have been unable to find one that does it with a local rather than a general anasthetic. We have been told the risk of death is high for my husband if he has a general anasthetic.
Our other option is IVF using ICSI techniques but we can't afford it. I have also considered egg donation as this reduces the price of your IVF treatment considerably but my husband really wants to have a reversal so we are trying everything we can and doing as much research as possible on this, before we rule it out completely.
