Mail-In Semen Testing After Vasectomy: What Patients Need to Know

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]The sample can be submitted eight to 12 weeks after the procedure and men have more options for that now, not just dropping off at the lab, but also um they can do mail order samples, which increases that convenience level and possibly adherence to that post-vasectomy sample need.

[00:00:17]>> [snorts] >> Um >> [clears throat] >> excuse me.

[00:00:20]Um I'm always available for questions.

[00:00:23]Um that is my email address there and um happy to take any questions that have come up during the course of this.

[00:00:31]Yeah, that was a great review. Um I'm going to ask you right off the beat, what was kind of the difference with the new guidelines versus the old ones? Some of the things I picked up on was more consultation, it sounds like.

[00:00:44]They they um they clarified some of the consultation points.

[00:00:48]Um the big um there there's a big section that actually talked about these future directions. They hadn't really addressed that much in the previous ones.

[00:00:56]And um the there's also a big section about the mail order kits. Since guidelines about uh like roughly five years ago, um the mail order kits have really there's been more and more companies um and I don't know how many exactly how they're how many, but more and more companies offering this at home um mail order kit option. And so they needed um that was one of the big drivers of the revision was just really um talking about that this is an option.

[00:01:24]They don't they don't fully um endorse it.

[00:01:30]Um the language is very very careful to say this is an option for patients.

[00:01:34]Again, all the data is in there if for anyone who's interested in it. They don't fully endorse it as being um equivalent, but it is an option that increases adherence. So, that that was one of the big things that got