WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for October, 1998: Re: What is it going to take for the MD's to entertain the notion that PTLS may possibly be a real syndrome?

Re: What is it going to take for the MD's to entertain the notion that PTLS may possibly be a real syndrome?

From: connie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:46:18 -0500 (CDT)

At Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Joseph Pastorek, MD wrote:

>At Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Cheryl wrote:

>>Okay, I have gotten several responses to my posting about PTLS. If so

>>many women have the same symptoms post-tubal, why not admit it is a real

>>problem and find ways to help us other than a hysterectomy or birth

>>control? I am only thirty-two years old. Women my age don't normally

>>get hysterectomies. That is supposed to happen when we are past our

>>child-bearing years, or so I thought.

>>I have not been able to successfully take any form of birth control I

>>have tried in the past. I got my tubes tied so I would NOT have to take

>>the pill. It is redundant. I do not intend to begin to take it now or

>>at any future time. I have the right to choose not to. So, my only

>>other alternatives are to live with it or have a hysterectomy. Or so

>>the one MD said that responded. Wow, what a choice. This MD does not

>>have to live through what I and many other women have to live through

>>from month to month. It is easy for him to say that. Sorry if I ruffle

>>a few feathers with that.

>>This is a sore subject with me. My ob-gyn NEVER made any mention of

>>this kind of complications post-tubal. Given this kind of information I

>>never would have had this procedure performed. Just because PTLS is not

>>recognized by the medical community that is no reason for women not to

>>be told about the possibility of the same kinds of symptoms I and MANY

>>other women experience post-tubal.

>>Here is

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