Vasectomies aren't as reversible as the internet make it out to be.

Since this is common rhetoric again, can we please encourage men to talk to their doctors about vasectomies rather than pushing people into it through half-baked information online?

I respect that you read the first paragraph on the Mayo Clinic's website on vasectomy reversal that said that most vasectomies are completely reversible. Still, there's more than one paragraph.

First of all, depending on how much a person spent on the vasectomy, the cost of reversing it can be more than a hundred times greater. This isn't a situation where you spend a hundred bucks to get snipped and then just drop another hundred to get unsnipped. A reversal is a much more complicated procedure which costs a lot more money and can come with a lot of complications.

What's more, as with a lot of medical procedures, the clock is ticking. If a man has a vasectomy and has it reversed a year or two later, regaining fertility is almost a certainty. Most men don't do that. If I had a vasectomy in my mid-twenties and wanted to have kids now, the odds of the reversal allowing me to regain fertility would be the equivalent of a $10,000 lottery ticket.

I trust my doctor more than I trust a tweet from Evan Rachel Wood. You should too.