Tubal Reversal Blog ‘tubal lengths’

Momzilla came to us at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center seeking relief of problems that occurred after her tubal ligation. Momzilla is her sign-on name for the tubal reversal message board. She is 43 years old, happily married, and has three children. She is employed as a human resource manager and her husband is an attorney.

Momzilla had her tubal ligation three years ago and she describes the gradual onset of Post Tubal Ligation Symptoms (PTLS) after her tubal ligation. We asked her if we could use her as the subject of a blog featuring several of our patients. She agreed and provided us a comprehensive list of her physical problems.

Her symptoms in her own words…

“Longer clotty periods with a day or so of flooding blood followed by nothing and then bleeding again. (My menstrual periods from the dawn of time prior to that had been regular and predictable to almost the day), horrible insomnia, light-headedness/dizziness (almost passing out on a few occasions), exaggerated PMS and mood swings, absence of libido and an aversion to sex, fatigue, a sense of dread or doom (not depression), withdrawal from my family (almost needing isolation from people), inability to concentrate, fogginess and an awful memory, tingling in extremities, very dry skin no matter how much I drink or how much lotion I used, more frequent headaches, bloating and GI issues, inability to lose my baby weight (I lost my waist), breaking hair that is more oily, breaking nails, changes in perspiration and body odor (sweating and smelling more easily), bad taste in my mouth, more sinusitis and allergies…I think that about covers it..”

She also had told us she had tingling in her legs, which required her to see a neurologist and have a brain MRI. She also had increased sugar cravings and gained 15 lbs.

Momzilla told us her story of having a tubal ligation and then noticing the onset of these symptoms. She has seen several doctors and had a variety of inconclusive tests. She found information about PTLS on the Internet and discovered Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center as well. She was very clear she was not getting a ligation reversal so she could have more kids. She was trying to get her body to be like it was prior to the ligation. She desired a return to her normal state.

I am happy to report Momzilla had a successful tubal ligation reversal on June 2, 2008. Her surgery went well and was performed by Drs. Berger and Monteith. She had good tubal lengths and did well in the recovery room. She was released to the local Sheraton hotel for an overnight stay and was discharged home the next morning. She has recovered without any complications.

Readers can read about Momzilla’s after surgery report: Momzilla Reveals Her True Identity.

We will also publish reports on patients who have suffered from worsening menstrual, physical, and emotional symptoms after surgical sterilization procedures (women who had their tubes tied).

We invite readers to join our Tubal reversal message board and discuss and share personal experiences with tubal ligation. We also have a dedicated PTLS forum for readers to share experiences of worsening symptoms after tubal ligation procedures.

We are interrupting our 14 part Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome (PTLS) blog series to announce the first reported Monteith tubal reversal pregnancies and the arrival of the Monteith Miracle Tubal Reversal baby shirts!

Dr. Monteith’s Success at Reversing Tied Tubes

Dr. Charles Monteith started working full time as a tubal reversal specialist on July 21st 2008 at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. We have received four pregnancy reports from patients during his first two weeks of reversing tied tubes.  His tubal reversal pregnancies have started to roll in!

The First Pregnancies

These four patients are representative of the patient population Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center and they come from all across the United States. They have had different types of tubal ligations and tubal lengths measuring from 3 to 8.5 cms.

Alaska (Falope ring tubal ligation)
New York (Bipolar cautery)
North Carolina (Bipolar cautery)
Idaho (Filshie clip tubal ligation)

And The Winner Is…

There has been an unofficial competition among patients of our Tubal Reversal Message Board for who would be the first patient to report a Monteith tubal reversal pregnancy. A patient from Alaska was the first to report a positive pregnancy test. She has confirmed that a first trimester ultrasound showed the pregnancy is in the uterus and is doing well. We have asked her to share her story and experience with us in a future blog article and she has said she will do this once her life calms down and her morning sickness disappears.

Why Have Pregnancies Been Reported So Soon?

These pregnancies have all occurred within the first two weeks of his reversing tied tubes. We typically ask our patients to wait a month until they try to conceive. So these patients likely started to attempt to conceive mid to end of August. They obviously had success and conceived at their first ovulation after ligation reversal!

To the patients of Dr. Monteith who have not yet conceived: keep up the faith and it should happen in due time. Most people do not realize how long it may take to become pregnant until they actually try. It can sometimes take up to 10-12 months before a successful conception can occur.

Monteith Miracle Tubal Reversal Baby Shirts

The Monteith Miracle Shirts have just arrived and are hot off the presses. They are ready to be sent out when the babies are delivered. All you have to do to receive one is:

Be a patient of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center.
Be a tubal reversal patient of Dr. Montieth.
Become pregnant after tubal reversal.
Report the pregnancy to us.
Report the birth to us.

The first shirt goes out April of 2009 and the rest shortly thereafter. We wish these women good luck and all of the women who have had tubal ligation reversals by the tubal reversal doctors at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center.

One of yesterday’s patients is a 33 year old from West Virginia. She works as a facilities assistant in a maximum-security prison. She has three children ages 15, 11, and 10. After her last child she had her tubes tied. She was previously married but now has a new partner. Her partner does not have any children and together they desire a child.

She found Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center by researching tubal ligation reversal on the Internet. She says it took some time for them to decide and make up their mind where to have her tubal reversal operation performed. They decided to come to us because of our reputation and informative website.

Dr. Berger and I meet with her and her husband the morning of surgery. We discussed her medical history, risks of surgery and expected recovery. After our pre-operative evaluation, she and her husband met the anesthesiologist, Dr. Caryn Hertz, and within one hour she was in the operating suite.

She underwent general anesthesia without any difficulty. She had a small 3-inch incision just about the pubic hairline. Both tubes were easily identified and repaired. The tubal lengths after the tubal reapproximation were good. The entire surgical procedure was one hour. Her surgery went extremely well.

After her stay in the recovery room, we discussed the operative results with her and her husband and the recovery room nurses reviewed the postoperative instructions with them. They were discharged to stay at a local hotel where one of the Tubal Reversal Nurses visited her this morning. She was found to be recovering well and she was discharged to return home to West Virginia.

We wish her and her husband well and that they will have the baby soon they are hoping for!

Submitted by Dr. Charles Monteith
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center