Hello everyone… Im just wondering if anyone knows the chances of getting pregnant after tubal litigation? Little over a year ago when I had my baby they tied my tubes (supposed to have clipped, burned, and tied them) although I don’t recall actually seeing any paperwork on it… either way, my periods have been quite normal since then but this time around I’ve totally missed my period… I’m about 2-3 weeks late but on the duedate of my period I did have one or two very small spots of light pink fluid/blood for two days. Not even enough for a panty liner. I took home tests but they came out neg… so I’m at a loss for thoughts… I tried to research this on the net but for the life of me I cant find anything…
The chance of pregnacy after tubal is vanishingly small, but it can happen. The few drops of blood could be implantation bleeding. If you are that late, take an OTC pregnancy test now. If you are pregnant it should show up. If it shows you are pregnant, GO TO THE DOCTOR. The pregnancy could be ectopic. http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/ectopic.htm
It is very unlikely you’re pregnant, but just to be sure, go to the doc and get a blood test, because urine tests don’t always pick up an ectopic pregnancy.
Hope everything works out all right.
Quit fiddling with the pee tests and go to the hospital and get a blood test. If you ARE pregnant (which you probably aren’t) you need to know so you can start chugging orange juice (folic acid) and stuff.
I’ve known one woman who got preggers (not a tubal pregnancy either) after getting fixed. Then we studied a case in one of my law classes in which a woman got pregnant and turns out they cut one of her tubes twice and didn’t touch the other one. Oops.
Call your OB office and have their medical records office dig out your signed consent, a copy of your history and physical and/or get the hospital’s medical records office to get the hospital’s copy of all this and the anesthesiologist’s record of the surgery and the pathology report on what was removed. They test what was removed to make sure the structure was in reality tubes. You need to know if you indeed had your tubes ligated, which usually involves having a segment of a half-inch or so removed from the left and the right and the ends cauterized and sutured.
Cyn, OB/GYN RN, who has circulated on many a tubal ligation.
I personally know two women who had babies after tubals. The funny thing is, in the second case I suspected it before she did. I thought the way my friend looked and walked seemed like when she was pregnant. The next week she called and told me the news. She was in her 4th month already.
My mom (OB nurse) says that Tubals are, well, pretty much useless. The female body is very, very good at reproducing. She always tells me, “If you’re getting someone fixed, get the male fixed. It’s quicker, safer, and more reliable.” Hell, my mom helped a lady who had her uterus removed - the baby attatchted itself to one of her organs.
A friend of mine’s mom had a tubal. She got pregnent when my friend was 18.
I’m sure tubals can work (if they didn’t, no one would get them), I just don’t trust them, myself. If I had a tubal, I’d STILL use condoms. I’d never consider it a failsafe method.
But this is just a prejudice that I have after years of stories from My Mom The Nurse. Don’t know if it’s based on fact. My mom might just be crazy.
Tubals are a little less effective than vasectomies…but useless? Definitely not. Tubals are still much more effective than most reversible forms of birth control. Not to mention vasectomy is not going to work for single women and those in open marriages. If the woman in a couple is the one who feels most strongly that she doesn’t want to have a baby EVER, it makes sense for her to be the one to get sterilized.
I guarantee there are a lot more people with stories of getting pregnant from broken condoms and forgotten pills than from a failed tubal.
Gremlyn, don’t ask covered the standard statistical chances, however your specific circumstances may make you more or less likely to have a post-tubal pregnancy. How old are you, and how old were you when you got fixed, if you don’t mind me asking ? I ask only because my personal research indicated to me that spontaneous tubal regeneration was much more common the younger you were when you had your ligation. Young skin regenerates better, I assume. I will hunt down the cites if it is relevant to you.
Also, take heart, as the method where your tubes are burned and tied is much more reliable than the method of using clips, for example.
Alas, someone has to be in that small group of failed tubals, so I would get a blood test from your GP, to be on the safe side and be very alert to any body changes. A possible ectopic pregnancy is something to be serious about. On the other hand, if it is a uterine pregnancy, you may want to think about your options. Your chances are good that you aren’t pregnant, but as I said, someone has to make up those statistics, so get checked out to safeguard your health.
Well, I am 23 years old now and had the birth + tubal at just over 22 years of age. I have gained quite a bit of weight here recently but I can’t tell if its from being pregnant, seems to be water gain/bloat. I have an appointment with my general doc on Wed so I’ll be sure to have him do something. I’ve taken the home urine tests and they’re negative so I dunno.
I hate statitics, btw… I am somehow smack dab in the middle of them. For starters, I was born with a stomach/colin disorder, spastic colon and there was a muscle in my stomach that was three times the size it should have been which had to be surgically re-sized when I was 3 months old. (it is the muscle that lets food/liquids down, Im sorry I can’t recall the name for it…) Which that occurs mainly in males from what my doctor told me. Then, this is the kicker. My first baby, back in 1999, I had an epidural done because the pain was too much, back labor… ugh. So anyway the doctor messed up and introduced bacteria into my spinal fluids. Two days later I started having seizures. Those two days before the seizures were HELL… my head hurt so bad. Plus I had hallucinations at that… got to where I could no longer walk. Went into a coma for three weeks. Woke up and didn’t know a thing… not even my own name or how to do simple things such as swallowing or walking. And I’m told something like that happens in around 1/100,000 cases.
It could be it’s just because her doctor knows her and trusts her to know her own mind. It could be she’s had three or four kids already. But it could also very easily be that there is some physical or genetic reason why she shouldn’t risk even the possibility of pregnancy. In any case, it’s a very personal matter and one that I am sure she would have mentioned if it were germane.
She’d already had children. It’s far, far easier for 22year old with two or three kids to get sterilized than for a 30 year old who hasn’t had kids. The perception is that someone who has kids is less likely to regret it than someone who hasn’t, even though the statistics seem to indicate the exact opposite.
The way I got one done is that for one, the last baby I had (when the tubal was done) was my third. And also my body doesn’t do well in pregnancy, I have many complications. Not deadly, but it sucks. If I were to be pregnant now I would keep it no doubt… because as someone stated, I do regret the tubal now. I guess it’s the fact of knowing that if I wanted more kids I couldn’t have them. I dunno. I’m letting this roll off my back right now so I don’t freak myself out so I’ll find out everything Wed.
