Why Don’t Doctors Offer Tubal Reversal Surgery More Often?
Posted by Mike Malone | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 15-08-2010-05-2008
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Why Don’t Doctors Offer Tubal Reversal Surgery More Often?
If you are a woman who has had her tubes tied and then regretted that decision, you are certainly not alone. Many women have tubal ligation each year and then later decide they would like to have more children. Unfortunately, some women and their doctors are not aware of a procedure called a tubal reversal. Instead, they end up opting for in vitro fertilization (IVF) which can be very expensive.
For some reason, many doctors are under the impression that the only way a woman can get pregnant after having her tubes tied is by having IVF. This may be so because many doctors are not taught about tubal reversal surgery in medical school. Even doctors who go into reproductive endocrinology may have never seen a tubal reversal surgery done during school or at the hospital where they trained. One reason for this is that most health insurance does not cover the cost of the surgery and most hospitals want insurance for such procedures.
No matter what the reason your doctor may not know to offer this reversal procedure option, it is important for women to understand the high cost of in vitro fertilization as compared with having a tubal reversal surgery done. To start you should know that reversal surgery averages 00 – 00. However, there are top notch doctors which offer this option for less and there are very experienced doctors with this procedure as this is all they do. Check out the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center website for more information.
Each year in the United States, about 2 million women will have some kind of fertility treatment. Most women begin with some kind of drug treatment to assist with ovulation. That can range in price up to 00 each menstrual cycle. Not only does the woman have to pay for the medication, but also the doctor’s visits and ultrasound scans required to follow her during treatment.
Of course, if that doesn’t work then doctors usually move onto some sort of assisted reproductive therapy. If you had a tubal ligation you are trying to overcome, you will proceed directly to this step which itself requires medication so you will superovulate and the ultrasounds to check progress and then the painful procedure to recover all the eggs released.
Commonly, a couple will go through the process of in vitro fertilization which can cost an average of ,000 – ,000 per cycle. While some are lucky enough to get pregnant on their first try, most often you will have to attempt more than one cycle. As you can see, that can become very expensive over time. That is the number of women having previous cycles goes down with each cycle added. They simply can’t afford it.
This is why it is so important for doctors to offer the option of having tubal reversal surgery rather than immediately jumping into IVF. It is an option that is not only less expensive, but it also allows the woman to try to get pregnant each and every month if she wants. With each month, her chances get better and better whereas with the other option, it does not. How we get better informed doctors to let women know this information given the lack of medical training in the procedure is a question we simply don’t know how to answer.
To learn more about this surgical option, please review these tubal reversal videos. Visit the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center website as well at http://www.tubal-reversal.net/ You can also get a FREE phone consultation at (919) 968-4656 which should answer many of your questions.