Bringing Joy With Tubal Reversal
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Patient age: 35
Tubal ligation type: Tubal rings (bands)
Patient hometown: Doswell, Virginia
Tubal Ligation Reversal or IVF: Best Treatment?
Often women who have tubal ligation will ask which is the best treatment: tubal ligation reversal surgery or IVF? The answer is, without a doubt, tubal ligation reversal surgery. Why?
Tubal ligation reversal surgery: Very successful
The chance of pregnancy after reversing tubal rings can be as high as 80%. Not only is the chance of pregnancy after removing rings high but a patient can also become pregnant more than one time after tubal reversal. The total cost of tubal reversal at our center is $6,400.
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a medical treatment that costs $14,000 for each attempt. Each IVF attempt is approximately 38% successful. If pregnancy does not happen then patients must pay again for each IVF cycle.
It is easy to see how tubal reversal can be more affordable and more effective when compared to IVF infertility treatment. The more pregnancies you have after tubal reversal then the more cheap tubal reversal surgery becomes.
Is IVF quicker than tubal reversal?
Some patients choose IVF because they believe it is quicker than tubal reversal. IVF can get you pregnant quicker than tubal reversal but a single cycle of IVF takes 1 to 3 weeks to complete. It is true that the chance of pregnancy with a single cycle of IVF (38%) is much higher than the chance of natural pregnancy in a given month (estimated to be around 10%) but the strength of tubal reversal is the surgery provides patients the ability to become naturally pregnant every month. Each month there is a chance and over time the chances of becoming pregnant increase.
IVF may be quicker in a month but if you don’t get pregnant during that one month of treatment you may be in for a long and costly series of infertility treatments.
More information: Tubal Reversal vs IVF
