Saturday, January 3, 2009

Tubal Surgery Is Answer to Tubal Blockage

By Sandra Wilson

More than 100,000 women each year suffer infertility caused by tubal blockage. Many don't even know this is the reason. The good news is that this type of infertility can be reversed by tubal surgery by the right surgeon.

You might have thought that voluntary tubal ligation was the way women got blocked tubes. However, you will find that pelvic inflammatory disease, called PID, is the leading reason behind infertility. While the disease can cause different things to happen, simply put it will block up your tubes so the sperm can't get to the egg nor the egg get to the uterus.

The right kind of tests should determine if you have PID. If so, you will be given antibiotics to overcome the disease. Be sure to take everything the doctor tells you even if you should start to feel better.

However, while the antibiotics should clear up your case of PID, they will not affect any damage that has been done to your tubes and the resultant tubal blockage. This means you will be left with two choices of how to proceed if you want to have a child.

These two choices are IVF or tubal surgery. IVF is an expensive procedure that takes on average three cycles to become pregnant. After that child is born, if you want another, you will have to go through the expensive, disrupting procedure again.

With tubal surgery, however, once the tubal blockage is successfully removed, you have the chance to try and try again to have a child. Once you have one successful pregnancy and childbirth, you can try again without more expense and disruption.

Now, your chances of getting pregnant after tubal surgery depend upon several factors. Your health being set aside, you can see the results on a group of women going through tubal surgery to reverse tubal ligation in 2007 at this webpage: http://news.tubal-reversal.net/pregnancy-study-2007-pregnancy_rates.htm You'll see that age is the biggest factor and since most women who are likely to develop pelvic inflammatory disease and, therefore, suffer infertility, are under 25, you can see your chances are pretty good.

So, if tubal blockage has been the determined cause of your infertility, be aware that tubal surgery may be a very good option for you. Just be sure to find a reproductive endocrinology surgeon who has been properly trained to conduct tubal surgery.

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