Can an Inguinal hernia cause erectile disfunction and infertility?
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at
2:14 pm
my boyfriend has had an inguinal hernia for couple of years now but never has constant pain or anything he only feels discomfort ever now and then, it really doesnt bother him , but what worries him is that if he has surgery he could become infertal or have an erctile disfunction …is that possible…can anyone help i would really appreciate it.
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Well, I had one repaired on the right side and it didn’t affect me at all sexually and I have fathered three children since I had it done in my late teens.
There are two inguinal canals, one for each testicle, and a hernia in one would be very unlikely to have any affect on the other. There is no correlation between a hernia and the ability to get an erection, unless unbearable pain is involved. Also, a guy doesn’t need two testicles to produce enough sperm to become a father, and semen is produced inside the body, in the seminal vesicles and prostate gland, and an inguinal hernia would have no effect on them.
Fertility is usually not affected by an inguinal hernia or hernia surgery. But in males there is a chance that surgery or an incarcerated hernia can cause injury to the vas deferens, the tube that carries sperm from the testicles to the urethra. It is not yet known how often or to what degree this affects a man’s ability to father a child. In rare cases, surgery or an incarcerated hernia may injure the blood vessels that supply one or both testicles with blood, which may cause the affected testicle to shrink.