Take my uterus, please!

[darkrosetiger]

I'm still sitting here trying to pick my jaw up off the floor after reading this article in the New York Times, by a doctor who was asked to perform a tubal ligation on a patient:
Earlier this year, a patient of mine in her early 20s who was expecting her third child asked to have her tubes tied. A mother of two, with a full-time job and part-time

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[silrana]

*hugs*

In defense of the doctor, there *are* people who change their minds or don't think things through or are just plain misinformed.

I remember my jaw dropping when a friend of Hubbie's told me that he and his fiance had decided that the best birth control for them to use was for her to get a tubal and him a vasectomy, and then have them reversed every time they decided to get pregnant. When I explained to him that it didn't work that way, he got defensive and said that his fiance had thoroughly researched the options. I asked, as delicately as possible, if maybe she didn't really want to have kids...? I heard they had a big fight after that, and they never did get married.

But for your problem, I second the recommendation for the uterine ablation. I was back at work in a couple of days, and my periods, such as they are, can be handled with pantiliners now. Before the ablation, my periods were so severe I was anemic. It is much much easier on you than a hysterectomy, and will accomplish the same goal. Your periods may not go away completely, but at least they won't be such killers.