Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome - Are You Just Old?
Since there have been reports about post tubal ligation syndrome going back to the 1950s, you could wonder why it seems like no one is interested in helping. If you have been looking line for some help in figuring out what is causing your symptoms, you have probably learned this. It makes you wonder just what is happening.
So, again, why is nothing being done for the most part. Let’s use an article from medicinenet.com as a source of information on why. The article says a Dr. Stephen Corson and other doctors simply think the cause is due to aging and not using birth control pills any more. In fact the article says Dr. Corson counsels women to go off birth control pills for several months before having their tubes tied.
However, this explanation has just too many women falling through the cracks. Simply put, what about the women who were in the 20s, 30s or even early 40s who had a tubal ligation right after delivering a baby? They just don’t seem to fit into this neat little answer most doctors seem to accept, if they even think about it at all.
Just check out Miranda. She is 27 now and had her tubes tied in 2003 after the birth via C-section of her daughter. That means she was 22 when she had her tubal. With all the pain she was suffering, among other symptoms, from post tubal ligation syndrome, I doubt you could put it down to aging or to birth control pills. Fortunately, she has a doctor who took good notes and who supported her in having a tubal reversal. He’s even looking more into ptls.
Then there is Linda who had her tubal ligation at 21 right after the birth of her child. For the next 14 years, Linda suffered headaches, mood swings, heavy heavy periods, and other symptoms. She spent most of her 20s, nine years, living with the after effects of her operation to ensure she had no more children. No warnings from her doctor either on possible side effects. This is certainly a case where neither aging nor birth control was the factor in PTLS.
Christie was in her very early 30s when she had her tubal ligation surgery after the birth of her son. It was the morning after he was born. Looks again like we can rule out birth control pills, or any kind of birth control, as being the cause of her post tubal ligation syndrome. Her doctor, after four and a half years of her suffering and trying to get his help, tried to tell her she was just getting older…at 36! But with her tubal reversal in 2006, her life has returned. She considers her recovery to be a 100% success story.
If we go back to the article from medicinenet.com, you can read that many women are put onto birth control after the tubal ligation surgery to control the symptoms they experience. Seems rather a strange way to do things. Isn’t tubal ligation supposed to be birth control? But the women still have to take pills to control symptoms that are side effects of the surgery? Well, certainly that proves that birth control pills, or more precisely going off them after the surgery, are the cause of all the symptoms.
But living on birth control pills to control the symptoms or just living with the symptoms are not the only choices available to post tubal ligation syndrome sufferers. One other option is having a hysterectomy. You should research this option and find out the side effects of it. The other option is to have things put back the way they were or as best as can be done. This is done via a tubal reversal. Do your research to find the best tubal reversal doctor you can.
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