I think the 1/50 complications is mostly just the minor, short term complications like swelling etc. I had a complication during my vasectomy in June in that when the doctor administered the local anaesthesia that it caused a small hematoma to form in my scrotum that made the procedure itself very painful, so instead of feeling nothing it felt like he was crushing my right testicle during the entire 8 minute procedure.
However, it was definitely worth it afterwards.
However, those lifelong serious complications are like 1/1000 I’m pretty sure, otherwise the procedure would not be that popular if there were hundreds of thousands of men running around suffering impotency due to their vasectomy.
My son was born due to pre-cum. My wife had been on the pill for 8 years then went off it for various medical reasons so we started using again condoms for the first time since our first year dating. We didn’t like it so we tried the pull out method and she got pregnant from a pre-cum baby in like a month.
After that we went back to condoms for the next six years except when we wanted a second kid, and I knocked her up with our daughter on the first shot, so we’re very fertile too.
Once my son turned 5 and my daughter turned 3 we decided to go ahead with the vasectomy and it’s been glorious.