| Tubal ligation side effects affect an unknown number | | | | as many women do. This means that going off the |
| of women. Several hundred thousand women | | | | pill is not the cause of her tubal ligation syndrome. |
| undergo having their tubes tied each year with the | | | | In fact on one message board provided by the staff |
| plan of having no more children. What they don't | | | | of the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, you will read |
| plan on is suffering from any number of symptoms | | | | story 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 really | | | | had at the birth of their last child. You will also read |
| suffer from the side effects of tubal ligation, there | | | | posts made by women who are so happy as to |
| are some reports/studies that indicate it could be up | | | | have found others in their situation, suffering as they |
| to 37% have long term complications. These do not | | | | are, and to realize it's not all in their head and that |
| include the women who have surgical complications | | | | there really is a tubal ligation syndrome. |
| that include infection, injury to the surrounding organs | | | | You see, that is another thing many women are told |
| such as the bladder or to blood vessels causing major | | | | when consulting with their doctors about their |
| bleeding, or burning of other organs such as the | | | | symptoms. They are advised to seek counseling as |
| bowel when coagulation is used. These surgical | | | | if bleeding so bad that you soak through a super |
| complications happen in up to 2% of cases and | | | | tampon, 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 ligation | | | | they cannot even get out of bed and any number of |
| side effects, or at least the problems you are | | | | other symptoms is just totally in their minds. The |
| having that you think might be related to having your | | | | above woman who questioned her problems being |
| tubes tied, are actually the result of going off birth | | | | tied to tubal ligation above was also told to seek |
| control pills when you had your tubal. On another | | | | counseling in the answer by the doctor who did not |
| website I read such an answer to a woman asking if | | | | even 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 that | | | | tubal ligation is having a ligation reversal. In one small |
| what she is suffering is simply because she is no | | | | study 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 on | | | | syndrome, by performing a ligation reversal, the |
| the pill. It's possible she was but it is just as possible | | | | doctors were able to achieve relief of the symptoms |
| that she had a tubal after the birth of her last child | | | | in 90% of their patients. |