Re: Failures in birth control, etc (sorry it is so long)

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Good luck!

At Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Melissa wrote: >
>I am new to this, so bear with me. I am a 28 yr old who had her tubes
>tied in 1/97, when my son was almost 3 months old. I have not "tested"
>the effectiveness until the past 5 weeks. The past 5 days I felt
>"pregnant", so on a whim got 2 different tests. I did one yesterday,
>one this morning...both postive. Normally, I have a 26 day cycle, and
>due to my boyfriend's work schedule, there were only 2 times in the past
>month where I COULD have gotten pregnant! One was on day 10, the other
>day 17. When I had the surgery, I asked specifically what the failure
>rate was...the doctor looked at me like I was a nutcase. My son was my
>5th pregnancy, and only the 2nd to make it to term. I knew that I could
>not handle another second trimester miscarriage, and chose to not run
>the risk of it. EVERY one of my pregnancies has been from failed birth
>control...my 7.5 y/0 daughter is a Norplant baby, I had 2 pill babies,
>an IUD baby, and the 3 y/o is a Depo-Provera baby. I guess it is
>fitting that the tubal ligation would fail me too. Not that I would not
>want another child, but it defeated the purpose of spending that money
>almost 3 yrs ago! Is there anyone out there who can say they have been
>in my shoes? I am so confused and downright scared right now...boyfriend
>and I talked about the possiblility of a reversal after we got married
>(late next yr), but with his job he is out of contact until this weekend
>-- he does not even know yet. I was kind of hoping to have a doctor's
>opinion before then.
>
>I just moved here to this small town, and when I called the clinic to
>get and appt. this morning, I was told that I had to wait til my 9th
>week -- if this is a tubal pregnancy, is that not too long?
>
>Anyone have some words of wisdom for me? I sure could use them right
>about now.....

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