As we have stated in other articles, every year many, many women change their minds about the sterilization procedure they had and now want a tubal reversal.
Thus begins their search for which of the tubal reversal clinics available will be the best one for them.
Whether you want a tubal ligation reversal so you have a good chance at having another child or you want one for relief of post tubal ligation syndrome (PTLS), you need to look for the best place to have the procedure.
Probably the first thing you want to consider in tubal reversal clinics is whether or not doing tubal ligation reversal surgeries is the only thing done there.
After all, if given a choice, do you want to go to a clinic where that is all they do? Or do you want to go to one where they do in vitro fertilization (IVF), vasectomy reversals and who knows what else? Kind of dilutes the experience of the staff, doesn't it? Not only that.
I think you will find that the staff just might try to persuade you to the more expensive, yet less successful, IVF.
The clinic will simply make more money with that procedure than a tubal reversal because the success rate of each cycle is only about 30% and costs much more than a reversal surgery.
Next thing to consider will be the certification of the clinic.
Who has it been accredited by? Has it been licensed by the state in which it resides? And will the clinic proudly proclaim this information where it is easy for you to see? Among all the tubal reversal clinics you check out, what is the reputation of the doctors and staff? Do you have ways to check and see how happy or unhappy patients and potential patients are with the care they have received? Do people highly recommend the services of the clinic you are researching? Even after surgery, how does the clinic treat its former patients? How about during the procedure? Do they even respond to you when you ask them questions? Some clinics that women have asked questions of don't reply for days and weeks, if ever.
Check their reputation online.
And speaking of reputation, what is the background of the surgeon from the clinic who does the surgery? What is his or her training and education? What type of surgery do they perform and how will this impact your surgery length and recovery time? Does the surgeon have a reputation of caring for his patients? Can you even talk to the surgeon and his staff and get your questions answered? Going further into reputation, what are the surgical statistics for a tubal reversal by the doctors at the clinic? Can you easily and readily locate to learn the success rates after tubal reversal given your age, type of tubal ligation, tubes lengths and so on from that specific clinic? If you are going to have someone operating on you for that shot of having another child, I would think you would want to know what your chances of success are.
Maybe the last thing to consider is the cost of a procedure from the tubal reversal clinics.
With the price tag varying from a few thousand up to and over $25,000, cost can be an important factor.
But you do need to be sure that all the above are addressed as well.
You just cannot make your decision based on cost alone.
Now you have some idea of what factors to research when looking among the tubal reversal clinics available.
Get the answers to the above questions and you will have the information you need to make the best decision for you.
Copyright 2008 Sandra Wilson