Pregnancy after Tubal Reversal - What Steps Must You Take?
Once you have had your reversal surgery, what do you do for pregnancy after tubal reversal? There are a few steps you should take and these are covered below.
Let’s start with learning if you really are pregnant. Since you are showing signs of being pregnant, you will want to test and see if you really are. There are two ways you can do so. One requires a visit to the doctor’s office. That is where your blood will be drawn and tested. The other is by buying a home pregnancy test which uses your urine to test for a positive. As the later are usually accurate to 97%, you should pick one up at your local supermarket and test.
If it is negative but you still show symptoms of being pregnant, you now have two choices. Wait a couple days and re-test with the home pregnancy test or go to your doctor and get a blood pregnancy test done.
When you have a positive pregnancy test, you will need to have your HCG levels checked every two to three days. That is the recommendation of Dr. Gary Berger who is the leading tubal reversal doctor in the world. HCG is human chorionic gonadotropin which is the pregnancy hormone that can be found in your blood.
When your HCG hits 1500, then it’s time for the next step. You will want to have an ultrasound done. What your ob/gyn doctor should be looking for is the gestational sac in the uterus.
If that ultrasound does not show the gestational sac or it is unclear, you will need to have your HCG level and another ultrasound done again in a couple days. It’s possible the sac will be unclear till you reach a HCG level of about 2500.
When you do get a positive on the gestational sac, you will need yet one more ultrasound in about a week to look for the yolk sac. The reason you are bothering with all this is to be sure you do indeed have a uterine pregnancy.
While it may seem like an awful lot of testing, the main purpose for this protocol is your safety and to protect your investment in your future. Although it doesn’t increase it by much overall, a tubal reversal does raise your chances of an ectopic pregnancy by 10%. All the testing just goes to make sure your fertilized egg is where it should be and not stuck in one of your fallopian tubes. If it is stuck, steps need to be taken as soon as they can in order to maintain the integrity and wholeness of your tube for future tries.
All of the above is the recommended protocol of Dr. Gary Berger who, as we told you, is the leading tubal reversal surgeon in the world. Women come from all over the world to have him do the tubal anastomosis. If you are fortunate enough to have him as your surgeon, and he is certainly as affordable as any other and more than qualified, you will find you have one more step in the pregnancy after tubal reversal protocol. That is to submit the Pregnancy Report as soon as you test positive and to keep the office updated as to your progress. He or his staff are available to answer any questions you may have. He continues to help you even after the surgery is complete.
Other Related Posts
« Spiderman Costumes | Home | The Greatest Reason In The World For Hearing Aid Centers »
Leave a Comment