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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.

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.

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.

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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