Why Doctors Won’t Help Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome Women

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.

Using an article from medicinenet.com (please do a search at that site on post tubal ligation syndrome) as the source of information about what some doctors believe, we find out what Dr. Stephen Corson thinks about it. He has done a study about hormone levels in PTLS women versus those who did not have their tubes tied. He has decided that all these women who report symptoms are really just suffering from a combination of aging and discontinuing the usage of birth control pills.

The problem with this type of conclusion is that it does not take into account all the women who don’t fit but who still suffer. Maybe the doctors are correct that indeed, for some women, this is the cause - getting old or stopping birth control pills. But what about those for whom neither situation fits? What about the women in their 20s and 30s who had their tubes tied and suffer these problems? Well, maybe going off birth control pills would fit for them except…what about the ones who were pregnant and had their tubes tied right after delivering a baby?

Amber was 22 when she had her tubes tied. She had her baby about 0300 a.m. and was wheeled to her tubal ligation about 0800 the same morning. Looks like neither aging nor birth control pills are factors here for the suffering Amber went through. So her menopause type symptoms, among others, were not due to menopause, not at 22.

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.

Let’s take a look at Dannygirl as she is called on the tubal-reversal.net message board. Although she did not have her tubes tied right after the birth of her daughters, she did have it done only a month and a half later. Even if she was on birth control pills, I doubt that was long enough to really cause a major upset with her system going off them and certainly not the awful symptoms she suffers after her tubal. Match that up with the fact that she was only 19 when she had the surgery and you can see age doesn’t play a part here either.

These are just a few of the stories I was allowed to share here of the women who have to live with this awful condition. That is, they have to live with it unless they take steps to overcome the effects. These, surprisingly enough, include being put onto birth control. Interesting, considering that they had the surgery to provide birth control. In the article from medicinenet.com mentioned above, a Dr. Grimes even states that “…many women are put back on the pill after the surgery to control these very symptoms.” Hmm, aren’t there supposed to be problems being on birth control long term?

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.