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.
Once the PID is cleared up, the way to overcome any damage done lies through using IVF to get pregnant or using tubal surgery. While IVF may be a viable option, it is expensive and does mess with your body. Unfortunately, you don’t pay or go through the messing up of your body only once because the statistics show it takes three times, on average, to get pregnant. If you want to get pregnant again later on, you will have to go through the mess all over again, paying for each try again.
With tubal surgery, it’s different. Once you have recovered from the surgery, usually within a very few weeks, you get to try as often as you want to conceive. Have the first child and then try again. All with no additional surgical cost.
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.
