Tubal Ligation IQ test

2.  How many women have had a tubal ligation?
     a.  More than 1/2 of women age 25 or over
    b.  More then 1/4 of women aged 30 or over
     c.  More then 1/3 of women aged 18 or over
Tubal ligation is the most widely used form of birth control for women over the age of 30.  It is estimated that between 750,000 to one million each year in the US alone undergo tubal ligation for the purpose of birth control and that 1/4 of all women of child bearing age world wide have been sterilized in some fashion. 

3.  True or False:
     There is no risk that Tubal Ligation alter your hormonal system because it is not hormonal (as with the pill).    
Women are routinely not informed that they could possibly experience a hormonal imbalance which may require hormone replacement therapy (HRT).   This is usually given to women in the form of the "pill".   The cause of a hormonal imbalance is veins, arteries, and capillaries (the blood supply) to the  ovaries and uterus can and often are affected at the time of surgery.    "Ovarian Isolation"  (one or both ovaries being affected)  happens because it is the nature of the surgery.  The tubal ligation surgery does not have to be "botched" in order to experience ovarian isolation or some form of post tubal syndrome (PTS). 

If  both ovaries become isolated and fail it is the same as castration or surgical menopause and you could experience "hormone shock", bone loss, and other disabling effects such as loss of libido and sex drive, memory loss, confusion, out bursts of rage (uncontrollable PMS), hot flashes, and loss of balance.  The few doctors who are currently willing to publicly comment on this event happening states that the risk of ovarian isolation is very low and not even worth mentioning.

Dr. Hufnagel states that the numbers of women who are affected by total castration (both ovaries affected)  may be low, but that the that the numbers of women affected by some sort of  PTS  is more then 50%.  The CPTwomen believes that the numbers are much higher then 50%.  This information is broadly elaborated upon and explained at the www.Tubal.org Members Site.

4.  True or False:
     Tubal Ligation is safe and without any known side effects (expect for the very small risk of pregnancy).
There are 4 major categories of risk.

1.  Surgical Risk:  Infection, internal bleeding, complications from general anesthesia, etc...

2.  Failed Tubal (Pregnancy) or Ectopic (Tubal) Pregnancy:  Pregnancy after having had a tubal ligation can be serious because the risk of a tubal or ectopic pregnancy is much higher.  If you are post tubal and believe that you may be pregnant you need to be pregnancy tested right away.  If it is found that you are pregnant your physician will need to immediately determine where the pregnancy is.  If the pregnancy is located in your fallopian tube a surgery will be required as the condition is life threatening. 

3. Tubal Regret:  Some doctors screen to make sure that the woman has really put thought into their  decision of permanent sterilization (meaning not able to have children or any more children ever).  Other doctors don't (or don't care).    The term "tubal regret" or "regret" has  come to mean the woman regrets her tubal ligation because she now desires more children.  We   have termed this type of regret as "Baby Tubal Regret" (BTR).     When a woman experiences BTR it is not really a surprise to her as she knows and understands the tubal ligation was the cause.   Women are informed that the TL surgery is so that she can not have more children, she is not informed of the known side effects and risks which can lead to another type of regret which we  have termed "Factual Tubal Regret"  (FTR) which is explained below.  

4. Post Tubal Syndrome (PTS) :  Post tubal syndrome is the physical and physical effects which occurs  caused by damage to the fallopian tubes, ovaries, and uterus and the  effect of abrupt hormonal and physical changes caused by your routine tubal ligation or sterilization.  "Ovarian Isolation", "Hormonal imbalance", "Hormone Shock" and the "Cause and Effect" of the blood supply being altered to the ovaries and uterus are are just a few of the "untold side effects".  

Upon the realization of what the TL surgery did or might have done to one's health can also lead to "regret".  This is not the regret of wishing that you could have more children but is regret, grief, sorrow, dread, horror, and dismay  of learning that information and facts were withheld from you and that you were not informed by your trusted physician, and the regret of what the tubal ligation did to your health.  We have termed this type of regret as "Factual Tubal Regret" (FTR), as this type of regret comes with learning the facts: the realization that information was withheld from you, that you were a victim of fraud and medical battery, and that you have been negatively altered or injured in some way. 

5.  True or False:
Having Tubal ligation can improve the condition of endometriosis.
There is no rhyme, reason, or evidence what so ever that tubal ligation improves or corrects endometriosis  (unless the surgery is meant   to cause you to become surgical menopausal.)   When women enter menopause it has been noted that endometriosis becomes less severe.    Surgical intervention such as Female Reconstruction Surgery (FRS) can correct endometriosis, but not tubal ligation.  

6.  PTS stands for
     a.  Promote The Service
     b.  Profit The Surgeons
     c.  Post Tubal Syndrome
Tubal ligations are known to cause a condition known and spoken of  within the medical community as being Post Tubal Syndrome (PTS).   PTS stands for side effects caused by the tubal.   As a unspoken code of silence, PTS is not publicly spoken about by OB-GYN doctors, by the ACOG, nor are women informed of PTS. 

Some causes and symptoms include the following:
a.  Hormonal imbalances caused by the blood supply to the ovaries being affected.
b.  The action of sealing the tubes can create a back flow/pressure into the tube during menstruation.  The sealed tube(s) fills causing pain. 
c.  If the blood supply was affected affected to the uterus it can create the condition of andometriosis. 

Post Tubal Women often experience extreme periods  (gushing, flooding, cramping, pain, etc...).  This could be caused by retro bleeding affecting the sealed tubes, by areas of the uterus  being affected by loss of blood supply causing theses areas  to become atrophic,  by a hormonal change (if the ovaries blood supply were affected) or by some of all.   

Women are not informed of PTS at the time of consent, nor are they informed of it afterwards.   Post Tubal Women are (as a matter of a canard ob-gyn, ACOG  standard) prescribed the pill (hormones) and told it is to "regulate their periods".   This is done without first hormone testing.  Some women are told that told they are simply depressed,  that their condition is mental and not physical and prescribed antidepressants (again these women are never hormone tested).   Some women are sent to heart specialists because of menopausal effects such as heart palpation's. (again, never hormone tested)   Most are offered and suggested 2nd and 3rd surgeries such as D&C and hysterectomy when in fact surgery such as FRS might be a solution.

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