February 11, 2015 · No Comments
I am commonly contacted by potential patients asking can tubal tubal ligation cause side effects? In my experience, I do see patients who suffer symptoms after having their tubes tied. Although it often seems like a controversial topic, I do evaluate and treat a unique subset of patients who have tubal ligation side effects. This section of the website was […]
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As a practicing generalist, I frequently evaluated patients with acute and chronic pain because of endometriosis. Often this endometriosis was located in the anterior cul de sac (in front of the uterus) and posterior cul de sac (behind the uterus) and the ovary. I cannot recall diagnosing endometriosis involving the fallopian tube muscularis. Subsequently, I began to exclusively perform tubal […]
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Can women have their tubes tied and experience tubal ligation symptoms? Pain after tubal ligation has been very well documented within the medical literature as a cause of tubal ligation symptoms. Below are abstracts I have found to be relevant in supporting observations of pain being associated with tubal ligation. Articles were found by searching PubMed […]
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There are many articles on Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome within PubMed. Unfortunately most of these are poorly conducted medical studies. A full review of these articles will not be performed here. These studies suffer from poor design, small numbers, inadequate control groups, and inherent research bias. Moreover, Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome is reported to involve such […]
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Endometriosis in multiparous women The incidence of endometriosis in the general population has been reported to range from 4% to 32%. A more realistic figure is probably 7.5%. An incidence of 7.4% was found in 42 of 566 multiparous women undergoing tubal sterilization at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. Twelve of the 42 (29%) were […]
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These are intra-operative photos I have collected during a 12-month interval of performing out-patient tubal ligation reversal surgery. In all cases, no patient gave a history of endometriosis before tubal ligation and endometriosis was not diagnosed during the patient’s tubal ligation procedure. In all cases, the diagnosis of endometriosis was made by visual identification of typical endometriosis lesions […]
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Tubal ligation problems are perceived by many women who have a tubal ligation procedure. For many women, tubal ligation may be associated with side effects but may not be the direct cause of side effects. Tubal ligation will often unfairly be blamed for symptoms after tubal ligation. Tubal ligation is often guilty by association only. Tubal ligation problems: […]
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Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome (PTLS) has a long and controversial history. Understanding the PTLS controversy will help women understand why many health care providers and health insurance companies are not supportive of a PTLS diagnosis. Tubal ligation and symptoms In the early 20th century there were medical case reports of patients who had tubal ligation surgery […]
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Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome is a syndrome of symptoms reported by some women after having a tubal ligation procedure. Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome is also referred to as PTLS. Tubal ligation is often listed as the cause of this syndrome reported by some after getting their tubes tied. A list of Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome […]
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