Pregnancy after vasectomy?
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I've got a strange predicament on my hands here. My period is 2.5 weeks late and I could not figure out why. My husband got a vasectomy 3.5 years ago after the birth of our daughter and so I've never had to worry about pregnancy scares since then. I told my friends and as a joke, one of them brought a pregnancy test to a get together we had yesterday. I took it in the bathroom at my friend's house, we all joked it was like Brenda on Beverly Hills 90210- hahaha. Then, a few minutes later, wine glass in hand, I went to check it (thinking surely it would say not pregnant and we'd all laugh and my period would come today) and... it said pregnant.
This is an anonymous board so I have nothing to hide; believe me when I tell you there is NO possibility of anyone being the father but my husband. (Luckily, he also knows this, and has been great about this whole thing.) My friends and I were shocked. I had a bit of a freak out, and then we started looking through the pamphlet of the pregnancy test and saw that ovarian cysts can sometimes cause false positives. One type of cyst in particular secretes small amounts of hcg- small enough that a good at home test can detect the levels (<10 usually) but low enough that a doctor will be able to tell me in a blood test that this is not a pregnancy, if it's truly not. I have had an ovarian cyst before and have noticed a sharp pain in my left pelvic region for the past few weeks, but brushed it off as something I pulled while working out, or while we were moving last month. But the combination of prolonged sharp pain in pelvic region + missed period + my husband having a vasectomy is leading me to believe I may have this cyst that is giving me a false positive, rather than I am actually pregnant. I just found this all out last night so I am trying to get into the doctor today as soon as I can. In the meantime, I'm just looking for any experience here from others. There IS a chance, however small, that my husband's vasectomy failed due to a nodule forming, or scar tissue rupturing, or one of the tubes simply reconnecting itself. I do accept that's a possibility, though I have to think a cyst is just so much more likely. SO- has anyone here ever had a false positive due to an ovarian cyst, OR has someone else ever gotten pregnant 3.5 years after their husband went through a vasectomy? My head is just sort of swimming here! |
Anonymous
| The odds of either are incredibly small. |
Anonymous
Yes, I know! I just can't figure which of the unlikely scenarios is LESS likely. |
Anonymous
| I am prone to cysts but was told it is more likely to give false positives on ovulation tests not pregnancy... |
Anonymous
| Maybe your DH is the one in 50 billion whose vacsectomy reversed. Maybe, but highly unlikely. |
Anonymous
| All of the options seem unlikely: false positive test (whether a fluke or due to a cyst) or a failed vasectomy after 3.5 years. Dr appt is Monday AM and I am very curious to see what happens. None of it makes sense! |
Anonymous
| My step sister got pregnant two years after her husbands vasectomy and it is most definitely his child. |
Anonymous
What did the urologist say? I am reading that nodules can form which create weaknesses through which the sperm can travel, or that the tubes can just reconnect. It never occurred to me to worry about this, I thought vasectomies were as close to failsafe as you could get! |
Anonymous
| OP - Clearly you're a smart person, and you ARE 2.5 weeks late, but I still have to ask. Did you take more than one pregnancy test to rule out that it was just a bad test? |
Anonymous
Vey helpful response. It's rare but pregnancy after vasectomy can happen. Do take one more test as PP suggested. |
Anonymous
| Has your husband been getting annual semen analysis to make sure sperm is not present? That's what my husband's urologist recommended. |
Anonymous
Huh, my husband's urologist never mentioned that. Once he got the initial all clear after the procedure was done, he said we were set. This is the first scare of any type since then. And of course at the pre-op consult they stressed to us to make 100% sure we were done having kids since the vasectomy almost guaranteed there would be no more. Should it turn out I am not pregnant, I will still make my husband an appointment to get a semen analysis just in case. I will take another test. Last one was yesterday and I was busy this morning calling every OBGYN in the area to see if anyone could get me in today. (My previous OBGYN stopped taking my insurance at the end of 2012 and I hadn't found a new doctor yet... so on top of all this weirdness I am someone's new patient now!) I will take another today and tomorrow just to see if I get any different results. For what it's worth, the test I took yesterday was the EPT digital that says pregnant or not pregnant... so I didn't just imagine a line or anything. |
Anonymous
| Hugs and good luck OP |
Anonymous
Thanks... I think we will be okay either way. If I had my way I do think I'd just keep our lives as is and not be pregnant, but if I am, we will just make it work! We have a great marriage and great families. It wouldn't be the end of the world, just very, VERY unplanned and unexpected. I hate when people start threads and you never know the outcome, so I will update after the doctor appointment on Monday. (Not that I'm the most interesting person in the world or anything, but you know, for curiosity's sake.) |
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