Talking to Your Doctor About a Tubal
Ligation Reversal
By:
Sandra Wilson
Many, many women in the US decide every year
that they are finished having children or do
not want children in the first place. Most
often they will decide to have their tubes
tied through a tubal ligation surgery.
However, within five years about six percent
of those women who have undergone the
surgery will decide they do want a child
after all for whatever reason, but most
often due to a partner change. These women
then look at having a tubal ligation
reversal done so they will have that child
or children they now want.
But a new desire for a child or change of
heart is not always the reason for wanting
to undo what has been done. Some women who
have had the tubal ligation may be
experiencing post tubal ligation syndrome
effects. Any number of health concerns could
be traced back to the original surgery.
For some women they find that they start to
suffer from the symptoms associated with the
menopause much earlier than expected. Also
for quite a few, they find that their libido
and sex drive is almost non existent and
they find that the symptoms associated with
premenstrual syndrome become what worse.
There are even cases where the woman will
suffer from hot or cold flashes along with
trouble sleeping and their moods can be
somewhat erratic.
Unfortunately there are certain factors
which would need to be taken into
consideration and which will determine
whether tubal ligation reversal will be
successful for a woman or not. First, the
surgeon will need to know what kind of tubal
ligation procedure was originally performed
on the woman in order to determine if the
reversal procedure is actually going to be
successful or not.
Secondly a woman's age will need to be taken
into consideration when she is thinking
about having her tubal ligation procedure
reversed. In fact for women over the age of
40, they should actually spend some time
discussing the matter with their doctor in
order to see what their chances of the
procedure succeeding are. Certainly the
actual amount of damage that has been caused
to a woman's fallopian tubes during the
tubal ligation surgery can have a serious
effect on whether the reversal procedure
will be a success or not.
What the surgeon will look for, to see how
high your chances are for success, is an
original procedure that only removed a very
small piece of your fallopian tubes.
Likewise, if the original surgery used clips
or rings to facilitate having your tubes
tied, that is easier to have undone and more
likely to be successful when doing the tubal
ligation reversal surgery.
You can realize from what we have written so
far that your potential doctor for the tubal
ligation reversal will need to review your
medical record for the original procedure.
Armed with this information, it is time for
your doctor to discuss the probabilities of
success in your case and how you should
proceed.
Generally a doctor or surgeon will spend
time with their patient discussing the pros
and cons and weighing up their particular
options before the surgery is carried out.
Many women may find that they have reached a
certain age or there is too much damage been
caused to their fallopian tubes by the
initial surgery that the tubal ligation
reversal not a viable option for them.
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