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Have you had a tubal ligation? Have you had weird things happening to your body? And no matter how many trips you make to the doctor nor how many tests she runs, you still don’t have a diagnosis…or one that makes any real sense. If so, then it’s possible that you are suffering from the symptoms of post tubal ligation syndrome. Others call is post tubal syndrome.

You may have run into it with your own doctor or you may have learned about it while researching the Internet trying to find out just what is wrong with you, but you probably have heard that most doctors believe ptls to be a medical myth. However, since you have been looking you have probably found sites that list anywhere from 35 to 45 different symptoms. In this article, I’m going to relate the symptoms learned first hand from the women who are suffering from them.

For Miranda it all started with pain around her hips. Then she started having messed up periods. Whereas before they used to be five days long, she was now still spotting two weeks later. She had loss of energy, headaches and she was losing her hair. How horrible to start worrying about hair loss in your 20s.

Tracy complains of being fatigued a lot and having no interest in sex. She couldn’t sleep and just stayed tires all the time. Her periods went crazy. What had once been like clockwork became longer, much more intense with heavy bleeding and clotting, then trail off only to start again a day later. She had bad cramps as well. Her other symptoms included occasional dizziness, a memory that got worse, feeling like she was in a fog all the time, headaches, hair breaking and fingernails cracking, tingling in her extremities and acne.

On the http://forums.tubal-reversal.net/ message board, courtnipadortni told us about her post tubal ligation syndrome symptoms. These included loss of libido, weight gain, memory loss, short temper, and bad period pains. Maybe some of these could be put down to aging as we all know it gets harder to lose weight the older you get. However, when measured against all the stories of other women who suffer through ptls, it’s hard to draw the line.

Linda, who was 21 when she had her tubal ligation, suffers with the usual mood swings, heavier periods and headaches. She also has to endure the regret and emptiness of making such a big decision at such a young age. It’s fortunate that some doctors are making their patients wait till later in life to make such decisions that will affect the rest of their lives these days. However, unfortunately, since tying the tubes is seen as an effective method of permanent birth control, never mind the potential side effects, not enough consideration is given to the emotional and psychological effects of such surgery.

If you find while reading this article that these stories seem to sound just like what you are going through, then the first thing you may want to do is seek out some support. A search on the web will help you find a forum where others who suffer as you do congregate to provide that virtual shoulder to cry on. Further they may just help you find the information you need to find out what you can actually do for yourself to remedy, as much as possible, what you are going through with post tubal ligation syndrome.

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