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- From: dbrown@tron.bwi.wec.com (Darryl Brown)
- Subject: Questions about complications from Tubal Ligation
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.225145.24367@tron.bwi.wec.com>
- Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore MD.
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:51:45 GMT
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- My wife had a tubal ligation performed 6 years ago at the time
- when my son was born. A couple of months later she began to experience
- menstrual periods that were completely out-of-sync between every 1-3
- weeks, and averaging every other week. After a few months of this, her
- gynecologist recommended that she take a hormone shot that would
- stop the bleeding for several months, and hopefully restore her
- back to normal. The shot had the expected effect of stopping her
- menstruation for about 6 months, but once its effect wore off, the 1-3
- week cycle began to repeat. The next step was that the doctor had her go
- and have a D&C performed to see if that would clear up the problem.
- Again, this worked for a few months, but the problem returned.
- Her doctor then gave her hormone pills to take, but they reacted so
- adversely with her control of her diabetes (she is insulin-dependent),
- that she had to stop taking them.
- The gynecologist performed another D&C another year after the
- first one, with the same results as before.
- She ignored the problem for a while after that. Finally, last
- year, she decided that if she could try to get the doctor to reverse the
- tubal ligation surgery, maybe the problem would go away. This was
- a hard decision to make, since we were not certain that our insurance
- woud pick up the cost for the operation. The doctor even tried to talk
- her out of doing it the night before she was to go into surgery.
- After the gynecologist had opened her up, and began to look
- around, he found that she had two 2-3cm cysts in each of her ovaries,
- one of which had ruptured. He came out of the operating room to ask my
- permission to do a hysterectomy. My wife is a nurse, and based on her
- knowledge, she has an aversion to having anything removed from her,
- unless it is absolutely has to be. I discussed the alternatives and
- I signed a release form for him to only do an oopherectomy. When
- he went back in, he found that the damage to the ovaries was not quite
- as bad as he thought at first, so he removed the cysts and was able to
- reverse the tubal on one of her tubes.
- Since having the surgery one year ago, my wife's menstrual cycles
- have been back to normal.
- She has noticed that as she has been talking to several other women
- who have had hysterectomies done for abnormal bleeding, that they had had
- tubal ligations done before their abnormal beleeding started. She knows of
- five women who this has happened to, three of whom had ovarian cysts.
-
- Our questions are:
- 1. Are ovarian cysts and abnormal bleeding *common*
- complications involved with having a tubal ligation?
- 2. Has anyone heard of a tubal ligation reversal operation a cure
- for these complications?
- 3. What are the odds of the ovarian cysts returning? Even more
- importantly, what are the chances if they return, that they may be
- malignant?
- 4. Is there a reliable method for detecting these cysts,
- without surgery? (i.e. ultrasound)
-
-
- Please e-mail any responses to me at brown@sky00.bwi.wec.com (note that
- this is a different address than where I am posting the article from). I
- will post a summary of the responses I receive.
- thanks in advance...
- Darryl Brown
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