| Millions of women have undergone a tubal ligation | | | | the data collected from over 5000 women over a |
| procedure as their form of permanent birth control. | | | | period of about 8 years. Within the results presented |
| Around the world that number is in the hundreds of | | | | in this study we can learn what your chances of |
| millions. What happens when a woman who has had | | | | getting pregnant are based upon your age, tubal |
| her tubes tied changes her mind? What do the | | | | length after the surgery, and upon the tubal ligation |
| pregnancy statistics of tubal reversal tell us? | | | | procedure. You can even see how your age and |
| While we have covered the topic of why a woman | | | | tubal ligation method together affect your chances. |
| may change her mind, if you are that woman you | | | | However, for our quick look in this article we will only |
| know that life changes. Those changes in your life | | | | look at the tubal ligation procedure and how that |
| and circumstances leads to a change in your previous | | | | affects the pregnancy statistics. In these statistics, |
| decision to undergo a tubal ligation procedure. No | | | | the results are broken down by clip, ring, coagulation |
| statistics to back this up, but from the posts I read | | | | (burning or cauterizing), ligation/resection, and other |
| on a tubal reversal message board and other places | | | | or unknown methods. |
| where women congregate on line, this change in your | | | | Sometimes it was unknown how the original surgery |
| life and your previous decision is most often due to a | | | | was done due to a lack of medical records. Other |
| change in partners. Usually there has been a divorce | | | | methods that fall into the latter category are tubal |
| and remarriage, or simply new partner, and the desire | | | | blockage procedures such as the relatively new |
| comes for a child as a sign of love of the new | | | | Essure and Adiana of which there has been only one |
| spouses. | | | | reversal so far though others are pursuing the |
| Whatever the reason, a woman does change her | | | | information about doing so. That woman was in the |
| mind. In fact, using the Centers for Disease Control | | | | FDA trials, had her reversal in February 2009, and is |
| and Prevention's own CREST study, we find "Nearly | | | | already pregnant at the time of this writing. |
| 25 percent of women with an unreversed tubal | | | | Here is how the pregnancy statistics boil down. For |
| ligation in 1995 expressed a desire for reversal of the | | | | those who had a clip applied to their fallopian tubes, |
| operation..." If you think of the millions of women | | | | 75% got pregnant. Reversal of rings found 72% of |
| who have had their tubes tied and realize that nearly | | | | women being successful. Coagulation reversal in this |
| a quarter of them and their partners want them to | | | | study showed 66% got pregnant and 63% of those |
| have a tubal reversal, you can realize that is a whole | | | | with ligation/resection procedures became so. Lastly, |
| lot of women. | | | | the other methods group had a 54% chance. So you |
| So let us take a quick look at what pregnancy | | | | can see how the tubal ligation procedure does play |
| statistics study says about the possibilities following a | | | | into the success of a tubal reversal. |
| reversal surgery. The study we are using is based on | | | | |