The No-Needle Vasectomy Procedure at Vasectomy North Clinics

Dr. Eriki and our surgical team offer world-class training and support, and we are proud to operate at the highest standard of surgical excellence.

The free No-needle vasectomies at our clinic provide a safe and virtually painless vasectomy. Our vasectomies have a complication rate eight times lower than conventional approaches and involve less discomfort – especially when coupled with no-needle freezing, as we do.

Vasectomy North Clinics provides services in the BC and Alberta Health Services

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No-Needle Anesthesia – Spray Application

Vasectomy North offers a different method of anesthesia called “No-Needle Freezing,” which eliminates the need for a needle to enter the scrotum.

This is accomplished using an air pressure device, which is quicker, safer, and more comfortable for patients.

The image here shows both standard anaesthetic injection with a syringe and the no-needle option with an air injector. You can compare the two techniques and see how the air injector pushes the anaesthetic through the pores in the scrotal skin with a burst of air.

British Columbia & Alberta vasectomy basics - How does vasectomy prevent pregnancy?

Sperm is made in a man’s testes. During sexual climax, the sperm travels through two tubes (the right vas and left vas) in the scrotum, mixes with semen (from the prostate and seminal vesicles), and comes out of the penis. In a vasectomy, these tubes are blocked so the sperm cannot reach the semen. As a result, you will ejaculate semen without sperm.

A man cannot make his partner pregnant without sperm.

Also, keep in mind that the sperm makes up a minute portion of the ejaculate, approximately 1% of the volume. Therefore, you will not notice any change in the ejaculation post-vasectomy. Your sexual experience, erections, performance, and ejaculations are essentially unchanged. The only change is no more sperm, no more pregnancy!

To understand what happens during a no-needle Vasectomy procedure, review this diagram to see how the male anatomy normally functions. The testicles produce sperm that travel through a pair of tubes called the Vas Deferens. You can easily feel them through the scrotal skin, like firm spaghetti-sized tubes on either side of the penis. These tubes carry sperm from the testicles out through the penis.

The vasectomy procedure simply interrupts the flow of sperm by cutting the sperm tubes and blocking their ends. Before deciding to have your vasectomy, please review the preparations, procedure, and recovery to see what you can expect from start to finish.

Vasectomy North doctors are specialized in no-needle vasectomy

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Possible Risks and Complications with a Vasectomy Procedure

There are no life-threatening complications associated with no-needle vasectomies. The minor complications that can arise are generally short-lived and resolve with ice, rest, anti-inflammatories, and time.

Long-term safety with vasectomies is considered excellent, although all of the following are possible:

Mild discomfort: Some men report a mild aching sensation in the scrotum for a few hours to a few days after the procedure.
Mild bleeding into the scrotum (1/400): May form a slight tender swelling for a few days.
Scrotal hematoma (1/1000): A major bleed into the scrotum, causing a grapefruit-sized tender scrotum which may take months to heal.
Infection (1/500): May present as redness and tenderness at the healing site opening or non-specific tenderness within the scrotum, which may require oral antibiotics. (More severe infection is possible, i.e. abscess formation that may require intravenous antibiotics 1/1000).
Epididymitis (1/100): Tender swelling of the epididymis, the tube connecting the vas deferens and the testes.
Sperm granuloma (1/500): A small, potentially uncomfortable, bead-like structure of leaked sperm that may develop at the site where the tube was cut and blocked.
Post Vasectomy Pain Syndrome (1/1000): A rare complication of a persisting dull ache in the testicle where the inflammation does not settle. It may resolve on its own or may need another surgical procedure.
Failure (less than 1/1000): Because a doctor has inadequately blocked one or both tubes or because one or both tubes have rejoined.

Does a Vasectomy at our Dawson City and Grande Prairie Clinics Hurt?

Does a vasectomy at our Dawson City and Grande Prairie clinics hurt?

With the effectiveness of our local anaesthesia technique, the pain is minimized. You will likely have some aching or other minor discomfort in the day or two after your surgery. Still, you can be sure that our vasectomy procedure ensures the optimal result with the least amount of pain.

It will only hurt a little bit – and not during the procedure.

Benefits of a no-needle vasectomy

With this new approach, there is no more needle and men who have undergone express amazement at the minimal physical discomfort they experienced during the procedure and recovery.

Men who were previously not considering vasectomy because they feared the needle can now feel comfortable, relaxed and confident with this simple procedure.