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Like many women who have had a tubal ligation, you may find yourself wanting a new baby. To change things you have to choose between tubal reversal and in vitro fertilization. No matter what made you change your mind, you have to decide which one is going to be the best for you. Following are some of the most asked questions. 1 - Why does my doctor say tubal reversal won't work? Why does he want me to do IVF? To answer these, you need to know a little about the training doctors receive. Check out this post and you will see what I mean: http://www.tubal-reversal.net/blog/2008/tubal-ligation/doctor-cold-tubal-reversal.html The title of that post is: Is Your Doctor Cold on the Idea of Tubal Reversal? The reason why your doctor is probably pushing IVF is because he is more familiar with it and because of the cost. See question two. 2 - How does a tubal reversal compare to IVF? On average, a cycle of IVF treatment will cost between $10,000 and $12,000 with a success rate of 10 - 30%. That success rate depends upon the number of eggs implanted. A tubal reversal will cost $8,000 - $9,000 on average though you can find it for less. In fact the premiere tubal reversal doctor in the U.S. and quite possibly in the world, only charges $6900, but that's because he does it in a clinic and not a hospital and it's all he does. Once the tubal reversal is done the success rate, which depends upon many factors, averages 69%...at least at the leading surgeon's center. You will need to ask the surgeon you are looking at for his particular success rate. 3 - So is my age a factor? Unfortunately the answer is yes. As women get older, we are less able to have children till we hit menopause. Same for getting a tubal reversal. The older you are, the more your chances go down. But even at that, they are better with a tubal reversal than IVF 4 - It has been X years since my tubal ligation. Does that matter? Here's an example. Suppose two women had their tubes tied 11 years ago. One was 21 when it was done and is now 32. The other was 32 then and is now 43. The one who is now 32 will definitely have a better chance of getting pregnant after the surgery than the 43 year old. See the last question. 5 - How long will my tubal reversal surgery be? Depends upon the surgeon you select. How often has he done the surgery in the last two years? Once? Then you can expect it to take a few hours. Or you could select someone like Dr. Berger who pioneered the outpatient procedure and who does it four times a day, five days a week. Can your doctor say that? It takes Dr. Berger, or his new associate Dr. Monteith, about one hour. 6 - My doctor does lots of other stuff (IVF or surgeries). How does that affect things? The simple answer is do you want a sometime tubal reversal doctor or one who does nothing but tubal reversals? Who is going to be more experienced at it and have seen everything under the sun? The one who does nothing but the one surgery. He has the experience and he has the knowledge. Do you want a part-timer? There are more questions but this article is long enough. Get the answers to these questions for yourself. Then you can decide if IVF or tubal reversal is best for you. You can also decide which surgeon will be best to go with as well.
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