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From: DrHufnagel
To: CPTwomen
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 11:49 PM
Subject: PTLS and reversal

Women write and call asking about REVERSAL. I have written about this on the forum in my web sites and on www.tubal.org.

I wrote a chapter on this topic over 100 pages. My editor was pissed I wrote so much on the topic. Now I realize I can do a whole book with ease on this.  The final book will have PTLS cases. I want to have at least 10 to include.

Susan has been writing hers for years.

I am enclosing here a picture of PTLS. This is a drawing showing normal on one side. The other side shows what happens in PTLS.

PTLS c vgh

This following drawing shows the ovary functioning. The blood and receptor area around the ovary.
The area moves freely.

PTLS c vgh

This following drawing shows PTLS . You can see why it does not work to just reverse. The uterus is enlarged with adenomyosis. The ovary is not functional . Adhesions filled the pelvis. The glands in the cervix are gone.

PTLS c vgh

The changes in the uterus are corrected by FRS not by reversal.
Reversal fails to repair any of the processes that need to be repaired.

This shows that Reversal does not deal with the issues of PTLS.

     Reversal does NOT correct PTLS...
          Reversal does NOT correct PTLS...
               Reversal does NOT correct PTLS!!!

Did you read that….???

I have been writing and talking about this for years and women do not listen.  I spend hours talking to women and they don’t listen.   Putting the tubes back together does NOT fix all the things that go wrong after a tubal ligation.  

I am repeatly asked, "if I get a reversal, will all my sympotms reverse?"  I repeat, reversal does NOT correct PTLS.  I will have to write this section to somehow make it more clear. 

To be brief, here are the points for those that have not or refuse to listen

Tubal reversal does not fix…

1.  Hormonal Imbalance

  • The hormones need to be evaluated
  • Causality sought
  • NCH created for individual

Tubal reversal does not fix this...

2.  Increased rates of prolapse and retroversion

Tubal reversal does not correct this...

3.  Pelvic Adhesions

Tubal reversal does not correct this...

4.  80% have Adenomyosis

Tubal reversal does not correct this...

5.  Periovarain sclerosis

Tubal reversal does not correct this...

These are just a few…

I am including much information about Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome (PTLS), in my new book, "No More Menopause", and will be writing with Susan a book, "The Cassandra Syndrome - The Hormonal Holocaust"  soon.  This information will be elaborated on in the upcoming on-line books. 
VGH