Is It All In Your Head? - Tubal Ligation Side Effects

Tubal ligation side effects affect an unknown numberas many women do.  This means that going off the
of women.  Several hundred thousand womenpill is not the cause of her tubal ligation syndrome.
undergo having their tubes tied each year with theIn fact on one message board provided by the staff
plan of having no more children.  What they don'tof the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, you will read
plan on is suffering from any number of symptomsstory after story of women suffering from various
that can make their lives a total mess.problems that they believe are tied to the tubal they
While it may be unknown how many women reallyhad at the birth of their last child.  You will also read
suffer from the side effects of tubal ligation, thereposts made by women who are so happy as to
are some reports/studies that indicate it could be uphave found others in their situation, suffering as they
to 37% have long term complications.  These do notare, and to realize it's not all in their head and that
include the women who have surgical complicationsthere really is a tubal ligation syndrome.
that include infection, injury to the surrounding organsYou see, that is another thing many women are told
such as the bladder or to blood vessels causing majorwhen consulting with their doctors about their
bleeding, or burning of other organs such as thesymptoms.  They are advised to seek counseling as
bowel when coagulation is used.  These surgicalif bleeding so bad that you soak through a super
complications happen in up to 2% of cases andtampon, overnight pad and your clothes a few times
surgical complications can happen in any surgery.a day is normal.  Or that the severe cramps so bad
Now some doctors will tell you that your tubal ligationthey cannot even get out of bed and any number of
side effects, or at least the  problems you areother symptoms is just totally in their minds.  The
having that you think might be related to having yourabove woman who questioned her problems being
tubes tied, are actually the result of going off birthtied to tubal ligation above was also told to seek
control pills when you had your tubal.  On anothercounseling in the answer by the doctor who did not
website I read such an answer to a woman asking ifeven know her.
her symptoms could be related to her tubal.Now, one option to handle these side effects of
She was told such complications are rare and thattubal ligation is having a ligation reversal.  In one small
what she is suffering is simply because she is nostudy conducted by the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal
longer on the pill.  Strangely enough, in the question,Center for women suffering from post tubal ligation
there is no mention of the woman having been onsyndrome, by performing a ligation reversal, the
the pill.  It's possible she was but it is just as possibledoctors were able to achieve relief of the symptoms
that she had a tubal after the birth of her last childin 90% of their patients.