Search Results for: "essure"
February 23, 2009 · No Comments
IVF is widely accepted as a treatment for infertility for many causes including blocked or tied fallopian tubes. To maximize the pregnancy rate, it is a common practice to implant multiple embryos. This leads to the risk of multiple gestation, which occurs in 1 of 3 IVF pregnancies. The recent birth of octuplets in the US is a dramatic example of the risks of IVF.
Read More
February 20, 2009 · No Comments
Tanya (aka Georgia Peach) will soon be a future patient of A Personal Choice. She will be detailing her journey for more children and improving her worsening menstrual symptoms through tubal ligation reversal. In this article, she introduces herself and her husband, provides her background, and her reasons for choosing to have a tubal ligation reversal.
Read More
January 29, 2009 · No Comments
This article on the Tubal Reversal Blog from A Personal Choice discusses the impact of age upon pregnancy or infertility. Dr. Charles Monteith discusses his experiences practicing high risk obstetrics and the concept of advanced maternal age.
Read More
December 31, 2008 · No Comments
The tubal reversal doctors at A Personal Choice perform tubal surgery as an alternative to in vitro fertilization (IVF) for treating infertility as well as for reversing sterilization. The advantages of tubal surgery compared with IVF are its higher pregnancy rate, lower cost, and the ability to become pregnant naturally and more than one time if so desired.
Read More
December 05, 2008 · No Comments
Patricia is a 46 year-old entrepreneurial mother of three who traveled to A Personal Choice for her tubal ligation reversal. Patricia describes her reasons for tubal ligation, her remarriage, and her desire to have more children after tubal ligation. She explains the hesitancy she felt about becoming an ‘older’ parent and her decision to have reversal surgery. She also inspires readers by having had an original idea to improve the lives of others, resulting in the development and marketing of a new sports product called the Yackle Ball.
Read More
June 17, 2008 · No Comments
At A Personal Choice, we use general anesthesia for our tubal reversal surgeries. You will be completely asleep thorough your operation. When under general anesthesia you will be totally unconscious and will not be able to feel any pain. In addition to the general anesthetic, your tubal reversal surgeon will place local anesthetic into the skin and deeper structures that are operated upon to help you be as comfortable as possible when you wake up.
Read More
April 26, 2008 · No Comments
Women who want kids after tubal ligation often ask about how to get tubes untied. This report describes how tubal sterilization, often referred to simply as tying the tubes, is performed.
Read More
January 15, 2008 · No Comments
I received an email message today from a patient that prompted me to write about informed consent for tubal ligation. (See my previous blog about informed consent for tubal reversal.) Here is the message that was sent to me. Hello, Dr. Berger, You performed tubal reversal surgery on me on 10/29/07, and I just found […]
Read More
December 31, 2007 · No Comments
Patient’s History Ana G. was one of the 4 patients I operated on today at A Personal Choice. She is a 28 year old woman from Angola, the mother of 3 children – ages 9, 8, and 6. She married when she was 15 and was in an abusive marriage. To keep from becoming pregnant […]
Read More