Vasectomy reversal FAQs

Our fixed price package costs £2,775 and includes pre-assessment, all hospital fees and your follow-up appointment and testing. There are full details of the package here.

We can generally arrange your procedure within 4-6 weeks

Our vasectomy reversals are all day cases, so no overnight stay is required

It is fairly common to see some blood in the ejaculate in the first few ejaculations after surgery, and there will be some discomfort during the healing period, requiring standard pain-killers such as Paracemol.

A minor degree of swelling is common after any scrotal surgery, including vasectomy reversal. In less than 10% of people there may some more significant swelling due to a collection of blood (haematoma) which usually dissolves by itself, but may prolong the recovery period. Even less commonly a wound infection may occur, requiring antibiotic treatment.

As mentioned, although rare it is sometimes not possible to join both tubes back together (4%). Also on occasions, despite a successful re-connection, the body may produce antibodies to the sperm, which reduces the odds of successful fertilisation. This, along with female fertility factors account for the difference between the patency rate and the pregnancy rate.

The operation itself lasts 1.5 hours.

Microsurgery involves the use of a high power surgical microscope to magnify the surgical field, allowing the accurate positioning of extremely fine sutures (finer than a human hair), allowing precise re-joining  of the vas tubes. Using microsurgery increases the success rates of vasectomy reversal.

Mr Rees has been carrying out vasectomy reversals for more than 12 years, and is one of the higher-volume vasectomy reversal surgeons in the UK.