If you are thinking that tubal surgery is used only to reverse tied tubes, you might be surprised to know that tubal ligation is not the only cause of tubal blockage. Indeed, tubal surgery can be the solution to restoring fertility to women with tubal blockage caused by other means.
While tubal ligation may be the reason for blocked tubes among many women each year, pelvic inflammatory disease, PID, is the major cause behind involuntary sterilization. It might cause the sides of your tubes to stick to each other. It might create abscesses filled with some type of fluid. It might leave behind scarring. Whatever the reason for the particular form, this is a major cause of tubal blockage.
If you find you can’t get pregnant, you will have to talk to your doctor to be tested. If the cause is that you do have PID, your doctor should give you antibiotics to fight the disease.
However, while the antibiotics should clear up your case of PID, they will not affect any damage that has been done to your tubes and the resultant tubal blockage. This means you will be left with two choices of how to proceed if you want to have a child.
These two choices are IVF or tubal surgery. IVF is an expensive procedure that takes on average three cycles to become pregnant. After that child is born, if you want another, you will have to go through the expensive, disrupting procedure again.
With tubal surgery, it’s different. Once you have recovered from the surgery, usually within a very few weeks, you get to try as often as you want to conceive. Have the first child and then try again. All with no additional surgical cost.
Now, your chances of getting pregnant after tubal surgery depend upon several factors. Your health being set aside, you can see the results on a group of women going through tubal surgery to reverse tubal ligation in 2007 at this webpage: http://news.tubal-reversal.net/pregnancy-study-2007-pregnancy_rates.htm You’ll see that age is the biggest factor and since most women who are likely to develop pelvic inflammatory disease and, therefore, suffer infertility, are under 25, you can see your chances are pretty good.
So, if tubal blockage has been the determined cause of your infertility, be aware that tubal surgery may be a very good option for you. Just be sure to find a reproductive endocrinology surgeon who has been properly trained to conduct tubal surgery.
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