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| Hey guys,
I just had the Essure done yesterday.
The insert only hurt on one side (the left). the right side was painless.
The gave me anaprox and vicodin to take for the pain.
They manage to ebb most of the pain, but it still really hurts on my left side.
The doc told me to call him asap if there was any excessive bleeding or if I had a fever of 100 or more.
The bleeding isn't heavy, and I have no fever.
I just feel really nauseous and the pain is dull but intense on one side. I've been taking the anaprox and vicodin, but the pain only goes away temporarily.
I called my doc, but he's in surgery right now and will call me back.
Should I be worried?
Is this normal? | |
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| Hello, I am new to this community. I'm 29 & currently pregnant with my 2nd child due in July.
This pregnancy has not went well at all & I will be having a C-section possibly facing Placenta Accreta (50% of women end up with a hysterectomy) My Dr said you should never get pregnant again & gave me a form to sign so I can get my tubes tied during my C-Section.
I was not planning on having any more children but I am afraid of what it could do to my sex drive & hormones.
So my question is "Do any of you find that you have a lower sex drive after the procedure?"
I’m not sure if you no longer ovulate after the procedure? I
did read that having the procedure done slows blood flow to the ovaries & eventually causes them to stop producing eggs due to lack of blood supply. I would think that could cause sexual problems?
I am trying to decide if this is something that I should do or try another form of birth control.
I did ask my Dr about getting an IUD & his reply was but that’s not permanent. - Mood:curious
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| After a few minor hitches, I was able to find a doctor who would consider performing a tubal on me.
I am 22 years old.
I have a consult with him this coming Monday.
What are some things that I should be prepared for?
Will I have to go into detail about my motivations?
Will he quiz me on how much I know?
Will he do a mental evaluation of me?
I'm really hoping everything works out and he'll agree to snip me.
BTW Thanks for creating this community?
I've been researching about TL and the side effects. The side effects I found were like something out of a horror movie, or from FOX news. It made TL sound like they were terribly dangerous...So I scurried on over here to read some of hyour guys' experiences. I am quite relieved. :)
Gotta love propaganda though. /sarcasm | |
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| Has anyone ever heard of Post tubal ligation Syndrome? Anyone have experience with it? I have so many of the symptoms and I would like to talk to some people who might be going through the same thing. Thanks! | |
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| Hi, I am Angi. I had a tubal one year ago. My husband and I have a daughter and a son, so it worked out well. I suffer from depression and got PPD with both children after each delivery. I had a c-section with both and was sertilized after this last birth. I was just wondering if anyone has gotten or know someone who has gotten pregnant after a tubal. So far so good for me, but I just want to know if I need to take any other precautions to avoid anymore pregnancies? | |
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| Hello all. I had my tubal done on March 17th of this year after giving birth to my second son in February. I admit I didn't do alot of research on the procedure since I knew I wanted it done. Well now I'm curious as to whether any of you have had any negative side effects since having yours done? I've finally had my first period since giving birth and where I've never really had cramps before, I've had them to where I almost double over in pain and didn't know if that could have been because of the tubal or something else. Any experiences would be greatly appreciated.
TIA! | |
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| Does anyone have any recommendations for tubal friendly GYNs, for a 23 year old nulliparous woman, in Vancouver?
Has anyone been through the procedure and can give me some info on the steps involved?
There's some info in the tags, but it's a bit old and I'd like more if possible.
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| So, the other weekend, I was at my mom's house, talking to her about birth control. I sort of casually slipped in my desire to get sterilized but I didn't think the docs would do it at my age. Instead of the "you'll change your mind" speech I was expecting, she says, "if you want it, get it done before your tricare insurance runs out."
I was like... o_O
So, I scheduled an appointment with my primary doc next Friday. I looked into it. My work insurance does not cover it (not surprising as I work at a catholic hospital). Tricare does. I lose Tricare on my 23rd birthday - September 30, 2009.
I live in Oregon, my doctor is in Washington. I am expecting a big battle and I want all the legal information you guys can provide on this, so I can stand my ground.
The argument I am posing is this:
1. My family has a long history of mental illness and addiction, which I do not wish to pass on.
2. I believe that we are already beyond a sustainable population, and I do not wish to bring someone into this world who may have to fight for water.
3. With that, I believe there are already too many children without food, home, and love. So, if I changed my mind and decided to have a child, I believe adoption would suit me better.
4. I have one kidney (I was born with hydronephrosis), and I don't want to find out if my body can handle pregnancy or not.
5. I never want to be put in the situation to question morals and ethics in case there was an oops incident.
6. While I am on hormonal birth control, I have realized how much it messes with your natural body chemistry. I am hesitant about what this is doing to me, as well as what it is doing to the ecosystem when it passes out of me and into the water supply. | |
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| I've had my second HSG appointment today and it turns out that my body had healed. What it means is now I am completely sterile! YAY! I couldn't believe that it really hadn't hurt, ( the first HSG was worse than the Essure itself). So now, I am happy and relaxed to know I will never have to go through this again:-D
X posted to both Childfree_HC and my journal.
P.S-if this isn't supposed to be here, please delete this. | |
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| Hi everyone, I am a 31 year old female living in Houston, TX. I had my tubes tied yesterday with the Falope ring method, under general anesthesia. I wanted to share my experience, since I really appreciated AJ's post below before I went in for my procedure. I hope it is helpful and insightful to those of you looking into getting a tubal. ( Read more... ) | |
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| Hi, I'm new :] My name is AJ, and I'm 21. I just had my tubal ligation last week, and some people recommended that I post about it here. My doctor is Dr. Luis Andary of Oakwood in Trenton, and he was just amazing. I did have to get a psychological evaluation done, but in the grand scheme of things, it was a small price to pay for my piece of mind. Additionally, I photo journaled the the day of my sterilization over at the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) adayinmylife community right here, if anyone is interested in a bunch of pictures. I checked the info, and it didn't say anything against linking to my own entries, so I hope that this is okay. If you'd rather that I put the whole thing, 66 pictures and all over here, I'll do that, but I just thought it'd be easier to just do a link :] Also, I'd love to meet some Metro Detroit people :D | |
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| Hello. New to LJ. I've been looking around in the different communities for a while now. Decided to join over here. I have a rant that maybe you guys would understand. Background info is I am a newlywed, but been with my husband for five years, living together for the past three. He had a Vasectomy three years ago, pretty much around the time that we moved in together/got serious. I had been on the pill previously (11 years) but stopped when he got his second "all clear". He has children from a previous marriage, does not want anymore. I do not want any at all, so once we got exclusive we pretty much decided right away to go with permanent contraception. So three years now with no pill, and no pregnancy, obviously (yay!) The Vasectomy is obviously doing it's job. Okay, the point of this rant is that being that I am a newlywed, I get bombarded with the "when are you going to have kids" question almost daily. We work in a very big nursing home community so we deal with a ton of people daily and I swear I get asked about kids at least three times a day now that we are married. I of course, am not shy so when people start asking I just cut right to the chase and tell them that my husband is "fixed" and that he already had kids and those are all we need. Some people just shut up at that point but you would not believe the amount of people who say things like "well, those heal back together after time" or "watch, you will have one eventually, those reverse themselves". I do understand that there is a very small chance that, yes, it could reverse, but this is a tiny number. When people say that they have their tubes tied, noone talkes about those rejoining. I just need to rant here because it really annoys me that everyone is just sitting around waiting for me to get "knocked up". I wasn't feeling good one day last week because I had my period and someone said "must be morning sickness". Does anyone else have people telling them to watch out, that their sterilization "might reverse"? We have not had an issue in the three years we've been relying on vasectomy for contraception. My period comes when it is soposed to every month, and we have two lab sheets in our filing cabinet that state he is "all clear". You would not believe the number of people who are under the impression that vasectomies always start to re join over time, like it is a temporary measure. I am generally not welcome in childfree communities because I am technically a stepmom, so I figured I would rant over here! good day, everyone | |
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| Well, this is aggravating.
This past Wednesday, I was supposed to have Essure done. But last week the clinic told me that Tricare insurance (my husband is active duty in the Army) won't cover it. After some phone calls and tracking-down, I discovered that Tricare covers the procedure but not the implants. But since that combination costs the clinics money, they won't cover it...and I'll end up having to pay over $2000 for it. Granted, that's considerably less money and pain than an unwanted child, but I was hoping it wouldn't cost such a huge chunk out of our finances. The clinic decided to refer me to another one in the hopes they'd work with the insurance. I have the (redundant) consultation there early next week. I had chosen the original clinic because it was the only local one with female doctors qualified to do Essure, but I guess the men in the field aren't in it for anything suspicious. :-p
I could get a tubal, but the thing I like about Essure is the non-surgical part...though Tricare DOES list surgical sterilization as covered. I'll perhaps get a tubal if Essure doesn't work out for me one way or another.
Then again, I could just stay indefinitely on Loestrin, but even the teeny percentage of failures on the pill make me too nervous for comfort. A major backup would help ease my mind. And with menopause coming up in the next 10-15 years, I want something non-hormonal in place for when all that weirdness comes into question. I just wish I'd been able to do something permanent back when I was in college or soon thereafter...no insurance or money back then even up to recently. I also wish hysterectomies weren't so major, since girly innards have been problematic in my family, and there's a good chance I'll need one anyway (and getting rid of VERY nasty monthly ick in effective and nonhormonal ways would also be nice).
Have any of you had to deal with Tricare? Do any of you have suggestions? | |
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| Hi everybody! Brand-new.
Before I get into too much here, I'd really like to know one thing: Based on your past experiences with being refused, how much of a chance does an 18 year old have of getting a doctor to agree to sterilizing her? I suspect it's very low, since I'm "too young to know what I want," and that "I'll change my mind" and all the rest of that garbage.
If it's frighteningly low at this age, what's the age doctors start considering reliquinshing reproductive capabilities to be "okay" by medical standards?
That being said, have any of you had to deal with convincing your parents that such a procedure is not being done hastily? How did you work around it or get them to see it your way, if they were that cool about it? Got any advice for approaching them to ask about paying for said procedure?
Another thing is the pain that one has to go through. I'm sure it varies on which type of sterilization method I go about using, but do I have to stay awake with just numbing agents or is it possible to be put under for this? Does that cost a lot more?
Apologies for bombarding you with questions, but I figure this place is my first good shot.
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| Alright, since this is my first post here, I'll start by introducing myself. ( Boring facts about the newbie... )After watching my single-mom friend go through all the trouble of child rearing, I can safely say that my will to never have kids is pretty much set in stone. I'm happy with my dogs and cats, thank you very much. Right now I'm waiting to get insurance, but once I have it I'm gonna be looking into getting a tubal ligation. What I want to know is: Are there any fellow Alaskans here who can recommend a good doctor? Someone who might be more open minded about sterilizing a younger woman? I know it's a long shot, but it's worth a try. Thanks in advance! | |
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| Hello friends,
Some may remember my ESSURE consultation and insertion story i posted HERE a couple moons ago.
A quick recap:
I am 23 years old, female, never ever been preggo, extremely skeptical of how long term hormonal birth control may affect one's health (a primary factor in my decision to get my tubes permanently blocked), and managed to find Dr. Raphtis who inserted my ESSURE implants back in Nov., and in record time!! (it's supposed to take 13 or so mins i read, sometimes up to an hour if an implant rejects at first.. but mine took under 5 mins, yipe!)
And now, a new development in the saga: I had my HSG on MLK day... and i got off the phone moments ago with the office who just confirmed that they've rec'd my results from the radiologist and my tubes are totally blocked!
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| Hello!
I am 22 years old, and would like to get a tubal ligation sometime soon. My reasons behind this are simple:
-I was born a month early due to hydronephrosis and immediately had my left kidney removed. I think risking passing that on would be awful, plus I am unsure my body can handle pregnancy.
-I have a history of mental illness, more specifically, bipolar 2 disorder. Also don't want to share that.
-My family has history of mental illness and addiction.
-I have never had a shred of a biological clock, and I still think babies are gross.
-I know I am way too selfish to ever raise a child.
-I have a niece, and she satisfies just fine
-I personally believe we have a big population problem, and I don't want to be part of making it worse.
I tried the Mirena IUD and had some side effects that made me crazy. I would consider paragard, but I have a nickel allergy (the wire is nickel plated in copper), plus, I am afraid of things being in my uterus. Right now, I've got the pill going, which is all well and fine, but I really really would like a tubal ligation (and again, nickel allergy, so no essure for me).
My questions:
Does anyone know the laws in WA (where I go to the doc) or OR (where I live) on sterilization? How do I talk to my doctor about this, without getting the "you'll change your mind...." speech?
I've thought about just sucking it up on the pill for a few more years, so I have a little more ammo age-wise. Plus, I guess here's to hoping that they'll come up with another non-surgical way (like essure) that I can actually use. Still, I want to start talking about it now, because I am sure it will be quite the process. | |
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| Hi there,
I stumbled on this community last night, ive been debating on asking you all this because sterilization isnt for me but i think its very unfair how hard it can be to get sterilized if kids arent for you.
now im sure you all wondering then why the heck are you even here... After reading a couple pages i noticed that D&C and hysteroscopy(sp?) are pretty common, and well i have to have them done next month and i cant find any information on the procedure and recovery time from the patient's perspective. its the first time i'll have to have anesthesia and surgery and im nervous.
can anyone help me out or point me in the right direction?
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| I am spst to go for the HSG this month to confirm that my tubes are blocked up from the ESSURE. i had my implants placed while wide awake. and that experience was pretty aweful but i stayed pretty calm the while. luckily i made it through with zero complications and in record time. (both implants placed in under 5 mins! yayayyay)
now. if anyone would like to share your personal story about the HSG, PLEASE do!!! i would like to know in best detail what i may expect.. so a variety of experiences/stories would be prefered! ;) | |
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| My appointment was for Wednesday, December 3, 2008. My surgery was scheduled at 7:30 a.m., so I had to be at the surgery center* at 6:30 a.m.
*The surgery center was not actually in the hospital. It was in another building where specific services were performed. They had their own free parking, which was nice.
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