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Why Doctors Won’t Help Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome Women

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 statement 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?

Just check out Miranda. She is 27 now and had her tubes tied in 2003 after the birth via C-section of her daughter. That means she was 22 when she had her tubal. With all the pain she was suffering, among other symptoms, from post tubal ligation syndrome, I doubt you could place it down to aging or to birth control pills. Fortunately, she has a doctor who took good notes and who supported her in having a tubal reversal. He’s even looking more into ptls.

Then there is Linda who had her tubal ligation at 21 right after the birth of her child. For the next 14 years, Linda suffered headaches, mood swings, heavy heavy periods, and other symptoms. She spent most of her 20s, nine years, living with the after effects of her operation to ensure she had no more children. No warnings from her doctor either on doable side effects. This is certainly a case where neither aging nor birth control was the bourgeois in PTLS.

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 fag 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 primeval menopause at 33 due to some of the symptoms she suffered.

I am grateful to the women who allowed me to share their stories with you on this subject. As you can see, there are women who don’t fit the mold of what many doctors believe to be the reason behind ptls. So what are these women to do? One thing they are prescribed for their symptoms just might surprise you. It is birth control pills. But taking birth control pills long term can have its own side effects.

But living on birth control pills to control the symptoms or just living with the symptoms are not the only choices acquirable to post tubal ligation syndrome sufferers. One other option is having a hysterectomy. You should research this option and find out the side effects of it. The other option is to have things place back the way they were or as best as can be done. This is done via a tubal reversal. Do your research to find the best tubal reversal doctor you can.