If you suffer from post tubal ligation syndrome, you may wonder why more doctors don't seem very interested in helping you find relief from your symptoms. You read so many stories online about all the suffering many women go through and you just wonder what is going on. It's even more surprising when you learn that reports of PTLS have been around since the 1950s.
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.
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?
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.
Shannon had her tubes tied back in 2001 when her daughter was born. For the last seven years, she has been suffering from a multitude of symptoms including periods that were so bad she could not leave the house for the first two days of it every month. Let's see. She had a baby right before her tubal so birth control pills couldn't be the cause of all the symptoms after it. And she is still having periods seven years later, so doesn't look like aging, menopause, could be the answer there either.
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.
What if you don't want to live the rest of your life, or until real menopause, on birth control. There are two other alternatives from which you can choose instead of just suffering from post tubal ligation syndrome. But both involve more surgery. The first is a hysterectomy with its own possible side effects. Please research this further if you choose to pursue it. The other is having a tubal ligation reversal done. Find the best surgeon to do this and chances are you find your life coming back to you.
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