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Monday, February 15, 2010

Tubal surgery for blocked fallopian tubes

With the invention of in vitro fertilization many years ago, some doctors are no longer performing tubal surgery on a regular basis. In fact, doctors are being trained and taught to do IVF but not getting information on how to do to tubal surgery. For women who have blocked fallopian tubes, this type of surgery can often be the only way that they can get pregnant. Because IVF is an expensive procedure that has a lower success rate than tubal surgery, women have a limit as to how many times they can attempt pregnancy with it.

However, tubal surgery provides a permanent fix for the problem of blocked fallopian tubes. This means that women can pay to have the surgery one time and continue to try to get pregnant each and every month. The cost of tubal surgery is considerably less than IVF also on average. Unless there are problems with scarring or adhesions after tubal surgery, women should continue to have open tubes and the ability to get pregnant.

This, of course, assumes that the woman and her doctor find the cause of her blockage and treat it so it will cause no further blockage. Since most often it is caused by a disease, and a sexually transmitted disease at that, taking care of the cause is usually done with a full antibiotic treatment.

Then, too, a woman needs to find a doctor who is experienced and knows what he is doing with regards to the surgical alternative. As training in this field is not a top priority these days, it is important to be selective in your choice.

If both of the fallopian tubes are blocked, the only way that a woman will get pregnant is either with IVF or tubal surgery. Finding a good doctor who understands and does tubal surgery on a regular basis is important because they can assess your particular situation to see if you would be a good candidate for the surgery.

For women who have blocked fallopian tubes, tubal surgery is a great option due to its relatively inexpensive price and its long-term potential to allow the woman to get pregnant. Blocked fallopian tubes do not always get symptoms, so if a woman is experiencing infertility for no known reason then she should see her doctor to have the situation assessed. The cause needs to be determined so that it can be treated appropriately and so there are no further episodes.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Tubal Ligation Side Effects

Are you suffering from tubal ligation side effects? Of course, first off you would have to have had your tubes tied for this to be the cause of what is happening to you. As we can assume you wouldn't be questioning these things being side effects of tubal ligation if you hadn't had your tubes tied, then we can proceed with the knowledge that you did indeed have a tubal.
So what are these side effects you may be suffering from? While many women complain of much heavier bleeding, severe cramping, fatigue, loss of libido and hot flashes, these are not the only symptoms you may suffer. So just because yours doesn't fall in that list doesn't mean it's not one of the side effects of tubal ligation.

If you have gone to your doctor complaining and questioning your symptoms and that they may be related to having your tubes tied, you might have been met with skepticism. You might be told that your body is just getting older or these problems are a result of the stress in your busy life. Many women have been told flat out that there are no side effects to tubal ligation and that they need to seek counseling or take medications for depression.

However, there are the doctors who believe that the side effects of tubal ligation are really nothing more than what happens because a woman has gone off the birth control pill. Maybe that's the case for some of the women. The pill has been regulating their hormones, they get their tubes tied, and go off birth control pills only to no longer have it regulating their hormones which causes some changes to their bodies.

The problem with that assumption is the many, many women who suffer from tubal ligation side effects and had a tubal at or right after the birth of their last child. On the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center message board, you can find case after case of this. This means going off birth control pills is not the cause of their tubal ligation syndrome.

Birth control pills can be the answer to these symptoms for some women. One woman's doctor finally prescribed the pill for her and told her that most women end up on birth control after their tubal in order to regulate their hormones. But that's not the only alternative.
The other alternative is having a hysterectomy. One source says that women who have had a tubal are over 3 times as likely to end up with a hysterectomy later on. Even then, you will suffer some other effects taking this course such as going through menopausal symptoms.

A last alternative is a ligation reversal. If you should choose this course, you will want to find a doctor or facility where ligation reversal is all that is done. After all, if you have cancer you want a cancer specialist taking care of you, not one who splits his time and knowledge into other fields.
The Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center even did a small population study on the results for women undergoing ligation reversal to counteract their tubal ligation side effects. In that study, there was a 90% success rate for relieving the symptoms of post tubal ligation syndrome. If you want to relieve yours, you should highly consider seeking out these doctors and having them do your ligation reversal.

Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center has a free online forum to discuss PTLS, join the conversation today on the Tubal Reversal Message Board