Can I get my tubes tied at 23?
Of course you can have your tubes tied at 23. You are above the age where you can legally make decisions regarding your health, and even above the mandatory age 21 limit for Medicaid patients. So yes, you can have the procedure done.Good luck finding a doctor that will do it, though. Age 23 with no children? Virtually everyone would consider that a guarantee for regret, if not in the near future, then sometime before you are no longer able to have children. Menopause occurs at an average age of about 51 in the US, although there is a wide variation, so you are not even halfway there. You have known for the past 16 years that you do not want children, yet you have a potential of 28 years of fertility ahead of you.Having your “tubes tied” is not simply tying your tubes in a knot, or tying something around them. The procedure involves actual destruction of a very delicate part of your body, and it is difficult to repair a tube. For a little more information about what “tying” actually means, see Jeff Menegas's answer to How do you know if your tubes are tied? Simply being difficult to repair a broken tube would not by itself be a compelling argument, if not for the fact that there are other, easily reversible methods. Some offer benefits over and above simply being reversible. Mirena and Skyla, two levonorgestrel-containing IUDs, will make your periods so light that you may not even notice them. ParaGard-380, another IUD, will not make your periods go away but the FDA and the manufacturer state that it lasts for 10 years, and Planned Parenthood has stated that it lasts for at least 12. Contraceptive implants disrupt your cycle, so that you won’t even ovulate.These methods are worth a try. They will offer you greater control over your fertility (i.e. reversibility), and will allow you to prevent pregnancy until you reach an age when a doctor might actually perform the procedure.
HOW OLD DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO GET YOUR TUBES TIED?
While some doctors may refuse to do a tubal on a young woman, so far as I am aware (and a google search comes up with nothing) there is no longer any state/federal laws about this. It's between you and your doctor. The state has no say. (Still, given your age you might want to consider something like the Mirena before making a final decision.)
Can I get my tubes tied at 21?
You can, but it's really, really hard to find a doctor willing to do it. Also, as someone who swore she would never want bio-kids... please, please don't make any permanent decisions until you hit 30. I know it probably drives you nuts to hear "you might change your mind," and I TOTALLY get that because I was 100% positive all thought my 20s that I would never want a baby, enough that the hubby had a vasectomy at age 29. Well, fast-forward 4 years, and we've both done a 180 on the kid issue, and he just had a vasectomy reversal 2 months ago. It cost us $700 to close the door on kids and $6500 to attempt to re-open it, and there's no guarantee that the surgery worked. I also have a good friend who had her tubes tied at 23. She had to hunt pretty hard to find someone who would do it, but she got it done. At the time she was certain she'd never want kids (obviously), but at the time she was also married to a guy who ended up being abusive. About 8 years later she had divorced him and met someone else who is an absolutely wonderful guy, and she realized that she DID want kids... with him. She had a reversal, but success with tubal reversal isn't that great, and between that and some other issues (like the fact she was in her mid-30s when they started trying), they ended up having to go through 3 rounds of IVF, two miscarriages, and spending about $60,000 before finally getting pregnant with their twin boys. They're such wonderful parents, but had to travel such a rough road to get there. So, despite sounding like one of those "you might change your mind" people that I HATED throughout my entire 20s... please don't close that door just yet. If you still don't want kids by 30 or 31, chances are you probably never will. But where you are in your life even just 5 years from now will be so incredibly different from where you are now, what you end up wanting may shock the he** out of you. It did a number on me, that's for darn sure!
I had my tubes tied ten years ago?
What patients have the highest success rates? Healthy women under 30 with at least 5 cm (about 2 inches) of tube and who have children with their current husband, have a 90% or better chance of having another child after tubal reversal. What factors affect the success? The success of this surgery depends on factors such as the length of tube, sperm counts and other fertility factors. Although pregnancy rates are around 90%, live birth rates can be much lower depending on various factors. When all else is healthy, the live birth rate are greater than 80% with tubes of 5 cm (about 2 inches) but are less than 5% with tubes shorter than 3 cm (about 1 inch) of tube. Short tubes have a low live birth rates because the egg moves though the tube too rapidly and pregnancies miscarry. With short tubes, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) or adoption is a better answer than tubal surgery for fertility. The success rate is also related your age, weight gain since your last pregnancy, your health, your husband's health and any other medical factors How do I know the length of my tubes? If your tubes were cut and tied after a delivery (Pomeroy or Parkland tubal ligation), look at the length of the specimens removed. If it is less than 2.5 cm, the chances of a successful reversal are 80% or better if other factors are healthy. At 3.5 cm, the chances are about 60%. If more than 3.5 cm is removed, there is concern that the tubes may be too short and rapid passage will result in miscarriage. With more than 3.5 cm removed, IVF may be a better option. If your tubes were burned, then the number and spacing of burns are important. One, two and sometimes three burns close together are reasonable for repair. Two or three burns spread apart can leave short tubes and the possibility or the egg moving through so fast that the pregnancy miscarries. If the operative note is not available or if the information is inadequate, a diagnostic laparotomy (open surgery) can be used to determine the length. If the diagnostic part of the laparotomy shows adequate tube or tubes, one or both tubes would be repaired at that time. ** Also, most insruances don't cover this procedure and the rates are around $5500 and up.
Youngest age to get your tubes tied?
I believe 25 is the age (I live in PA). You will have to sign a consent of sterilization form, and be counseled about it endlessly. Anything under 25 and your doctor/and insurance co will refuse usually. BTW, you can also get depo shots while breastfeeding. My doctors gave me a full range of options... not just the pill. I had my tubes tied last year after the birth of my third baby (kid #4 for hubby and I) and I was 31. I signed the form at 5months pregnant and every visit I was counseled about it. My doctors tried everything they could think of to change my mind, including asking me what would I do if my husband and I divorced and I want a new kids with my new husband (?!?!). Anyways, it could be possible to get it done at your age, but there may be a ton of hoops to jump through and it is likely your insurance won't cover it and you'll have to pay for it out of pocket. The link below is birth control that is okay to use when breastfeeding: http://www.breastfeedingbasics.com/html/breastfeeding_and_birth_control.shtml
How old do you have to get your tubes tied in Texas?
Quit listening to “Urban legend”! I had a vasectomy in Dallas, TX when I was 21, and I never had children. My girlfriend had her tubes tied when she was 25, with no children, in California. The minimum legal age is 18. That is federal law. There is no minimum number of Children, by law. There are however local policies, and personal beliefs of doctors, or clinic management, but those are not the law. Sometimes clinics get government funding. The funding requirements may stipulate age, and the minimum number of children. Again, this is not the law, and this will not stop you if you are paying cash. Twenty years ago, I had my vasectomy at http://fairmountcenter.com/ A lot has changed there, in 20 years, so the services may have changed. If they can't help you, I am sure they can refer you. I suggest your hubby get done. It is much cheaper, and he will fully recover in a week. You may take 6 weeks or so. Also most insurance will cover a vasectomy 100%. Good luck, and don’t take any crap from anyone. They tell you it is illegal, because they want you to go away. The truth is many people get sterilized, then later claim that the clinic “tricked” them into getting it. They feel it is safer to err on the side of caution.
Ok I had my tubes cut and burnt 6 almost 7 years ago. Which I do regret. ?
To be honest I would not call myself an expert however as a nursing student I have taken a lot of anatomy and physiology class and I have already completed my maternal child rotation. Here is how I see it. If there is an opening in one of your tubes which allowed an egg to get through then it is possible that it could happen again. However the egg would have to come from that ovary and then somehow get into your uterus. If your tubes were cut that seems like a long shot too me. Most the time if a couple has been actively trying to get pregnant for more than one year and are still not able to they may need medical intervention, such as a procedure where they harvest your eggs while they are still attached to your ovaries and then they inseminate, and implant them directly into your uterus (this is just one of the procedures that can be done.) The bottom line is that while it is possible that you could get pregnant again you may opt for the procedure in the interest of time and certainty. I personally would try for a full year before attempting any medical intervention. You should however see your doctor about ways that you can prepare your body even before your are pregnant. Things like being at a healthy weight, eating right and making sure that you have adequate nutrition including folic acid and calcium. Hope that helped good luck!
Can I get pregnant while my tubes are tied?
Yep. It's extraordinarily unlikely, but it's possible. If I remember correctly from the time I had my procedure 8 years ago, my doctor told me that there was something like a one or one and a half percent failure rate; at some point, with some women, either the body repairs itself and sort of “undoes” the procedure, or, well, since they say “life always finds a way,” an egg just sort of goes rogue and finds its way into your tubes by some occurrence that can't always be explained.Not to get into too much serious detail here, but, I'll simply say that my boyfriend and I have a very, very active sex life, and it's been that way the whole time I've had my tubes tied, and I have yet, in 8 years, to even have a remote thought that I might have become pregnant. The sad part is, however, that I've hit my so-called “prime”, feel the proverbial “biological clock” ticking, and although I already have a 10-year-old son, I've recently caught that whole baby fever thing that so many women my age talk about, and I find myself almost regretting having gotten my tubes tied. I'm in no physical condition to have another child, so I'm still glad that I made the decision to do it, but for anyone who's contemplating the procedure, I'd say, really, really think hard about it before deciding. It can't be reversed. And while, yes, you can still get pregnant after having one, the chances are super slim. And with the frequency with which I have sex, I'd think that if I were really trying to beat that margin of error, I'd have done it by now. So, if you're gonna do it, just be certain that it's what you want. Like I said, it can happen, but it's extremely unlikely.