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Did you know there that problems reported following having your tubes tied all the way back 50+ years ago? Yes. What we call post tubal ligation syndrome has been reported for decades. You can read story after story online, especially if you go to the http://www.tubal-reversal.net message board, about the suffering women are having post tubal. Why are all these women being ignored? Why is this 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?

For instance we have the case of Tracy who had a “baby oops” after her planned two children. Figuring they had three healthy children and because her husband wanted a sure thing for birth control, she had her tubes tied when she delivered her third child by C-section. Tracy is older, having the last child at 40, so maybe the aging could have some effect, but certainly not to the extent she has suffered. And birth control pills play no part as you can readily see.

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.

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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