Your Birth Control Caused Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome?
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.
Well, if the quotes and information provided from an article on post tubal ligation syndrome on medicinenet.com is to be believed, all these women are being ignored by the medical establishment as a whole simply because doctors (but not all) don’t believe ptls is real. Having done a study comparing hormone levels in women who have ptls symptoms and those who have not had a tubal ligation, Dr. Stephen Corson couldn’t find any difference. Because of this, or so the article implies, he thinks that post tubal syndrome is nothing more than women simply getting old or because they have stopped using birth control pills.
What is really strange about this conclusion is that so many women simply don’t fit into this category. However, no mention of this is made in the article so one is left wondering how the doctor explains symptoms in women who were in their 20s when they had a tubal ligation and started suffering from Post Tubal Syndrome, as it is also called, during the same decade of life. Nor does it explain the many women who had tubals done right after delivering a child. That means they weren’t on birth control of any kind.
Amber was 22 when she had her tubes tied. She had her baby about 0300 a.m. and was wheeled to her tubal ligation about 0800 the same morning. Looks like neither aging nor birth control pills are factors here for the suffering Amber went through. So her menopause type symptoms, among others, were not due to menopause, not at 22.
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.
Now let’s look at Rebecca who had her surgery at the birth of her child as well. She even signed the papers for the surgery while in hard labor after having an epidural. Not exactly the best timing, I’m thinking, for clear cool reasoning nor being told about any side effects. But then most doctors don’t believe ptls to be real. As Rebecca was only 33, I don’t believe putting the post tubal ligation syndrome effects down to aging is a realistic answer either. Poor Rebecca thought she was going into early menopause at 33 due to some of the symptoms she suffered.
These are just a few of the stories I was allowed to share here of the women who have to live with this awful condition. That is, they have to live with it unless they take steps to overcome the effects. These, surprisingly enough, include being put onto birth control. Interesting, considering that they had the surgery to provide birth control. In the article from medicinenet.com mentioned above, a Dr. Grimes even states that “…many women are put back on the pill after the surgery to control these very symptoms.” Hmm, aren’t there supposed to be problems being on birth control long term?
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.
