Dr. Tabatha Barber explains permanent sterilization options. Tubal ligation cuts, burns, or removes fallopian tubes, not just ties them. She warns against Essure coils due to cyclical pain, migration, and need for hysterectomy, and suggests partners consider vasectomy if the couple is certain about having no more children.
The other option is permanent sterilization. You can get your tubes, quote, unquote, tied. Really? We cut them, we burn them, we remove them, we don't tie them. That's just a nice layman's way of making it sound like we're not doing that big of a thing. I do not recommend the Essure coils. That was a guinea pig situation where we just experimented on women. And some women, they did okay. But a lot of women had major complications from Essure coils. So luckily, that has been exposed and is no longer an issue. But if you've had Essure coils, they're little coils that go in the fallopian tubes to scar them shut to prevent pregnancy. They are known to cause cyclical pain, like pain every month. They're known to migrate and leave the fallopian tube and go out into the abdominal cavity or into your uterus. And a lot of women end up having other surgeries or even a hysterectomy because of these Essure complications. So if you had Essure and you're having chronic pain or abnormal bleeding, you know, issues like that, you need to get that evaluated, because those little Essure coils could be the problem. So I say have your partner get a vasectomy. If you're 100% done, you want to make sure you guys are 100% done having children, because that is not usually a reversible decision. You don't want to think of it as reversible. It is permanent.
