Sperms live in your body 78 days from the beginning of their development until they are ejaculated. It therefore takes a minimum of four months after surgery, to see significant improvement in semen analysis. Improvement can be seen for up to two years.

Total joint replacement surgery typically lasts 1-2 hours. If your case may require longer, your doctor will have discussed this with you. If for some reason your surgery takes longer than anticipated, the operating room staff will be in contact with your family.

If the surgeon is experienced in doing vasectomy reversals, they should be able to find the blockage, which is likely to be in the epididymis, and perform the bypass above that point. However, if the surgeon is not able to perform this bypass, then the best thing to do is reattach to two ends of the vas and hope for the best.

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Washed sperm is supposed to only live for 6-12 hours, but sometimes as long as 24 -- not nearly as long as sperm can live in fertile cervical mucus (sperm can live up to 5 days in fertile mucus, 2-3 days being pretty common). This is why timing is so important.

The children are placed in short leg casts at the time of surgery; these casts will be on for up to six weeks. The children should keep their feet elevated for the first 48 hours and/or up to one week after surgery to decrease swelling and pain. They may walk on these casts and most children feel well enough to be up on their feet in three of four days.

Every patient and every eye is different, but patients commonly see well enough to drive the day after surgery. Ask your doctor how quickly he or she expects you to recover.

After you have decided to schedule you will usually be able to get a surgical date within 4 to 8 weeks.

Depending on the procedure you underwent and how well you are recovering, you will need therapy anywhere from 4 to 12 weeks postoperatively.

Dr. Stanley decides how long you will be off of work based on the type of surgery, your recovery process, and the type of job you are employed in. In most cases, patients return to work in about 4 to 6 weeks.(non surgical patient) Dr. Stanley does prefer that you return to the office after you have completed a course of physical therapy, in order to monitor your progress and provide you the best care.

In general most of the discomfort from surgery resolves after the first 2 weeks. People usually require 4 to 6 weeks to gain their full strength back.

Breast augmentation surgery usually takes 1 to 2 hours. This, of course varies from person to person. And sometimes even varies based on the breast incision location (areola, axilla - armpit, inframammary fold, TUBA, umbilicus), breast implant type, resting location of the breast implant, and bleeding that may occur in the breast tissues or chest wall. You will be asleep during your breast augmentation surgery; it is done under a general anesthetic.