hi
i was sterilised 2years ago but had nothing but pain since. i have been in and out of hosptail had test ,but still in alot of pain , the pain seems to get traped in the right hand side of my tummy i have taken mst codeine phosphate tabs. but does not help the pain, can any one tell me if there is anything else i can try , at the moment it hurts to move with the pain, had doctor out last night but he didnot what to do for me . i really do wish that i never had it done, if anyone thinging about having this done ,then my advice is DONT
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hi i just read your message i am 26 mum to 4 lovely children at the age of22 when i had my last son by c/section i got sterilized
since then i to get so much pain mainly in the lower right side sometimes if i bend down it feels like somethings popped or moved its horrible i to have been to see about it and they say nothings wrong i just wanted to let you know you arnt alone and was wondering if anyone else has the same trouble
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I am in the same situation. i got sterilized after my last child 4 years ago. i didn't want to but my ex husband poked his head in the theatre and said make sure you cut those tubes. He was very abusive. I never ever wanted it done i was high on drugs during surgery and just said do it after what he said. I've regretted it ever since. I've since met a lovely man and would dearly love to have children with him but more the point i just want the pain to stop. I cant even go shopping. the pain in my sides since sterilization is a sharp stabbing pain not an ache. i've took myself top casualty twice where i was so scared where the pain was bad. I can't afford reversal and i've seen my doctor hundreds of times i'm on medication for pain and severe heavy periods. She has now put me forward for reversal on nhs on medical grounds. a baby would be nice but i have children so its not the end of the world if i dont have anymore, but i do want to be normal again and have no more pain. NEVER get sterilized there are other means of contraception where your left with a choice and no pain.
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I was interested at your situation, I too have very severe pain for which I take Codeine Phosphate and Diclofenac together, but they do not touch the pain. It is worse during ovulation, so bad that I cannot get up and walk about. I have been to see a gynaecologist about it but they said it was 'just ovulation' and the only thing I could do to stop it was go on the pill!! My GP says there is no way that I can get a reversal on the NHS, they just won't do it. So I feel like I am now stuck with this debilitating pain for the rest of my menstrual life. :headhurts: Not only that, but my periods have become so heavy, that I cannot use tampons (even the largest absorbency) because they just get soaked so quickly that they fall out.
In conclusion, my advice to anyone thinking of sterilisation is the same as yours - DON'T DO IT!
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Hi, I'm 35 mother of 2 that has found harself looking into contraception again after a marriage break up from a man who had had a vasectomy. Thinking that sterilization would be my easy option, I was moved by your experiences of pain and regret. Needles to say it now seems like the most unessesary and drastic method.
So I thank you for your advise, wish you all luck, and go back to popping the pill.
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hi everyone, i have been to the dr's today to talk bout being sterilized. i'm 37 and have had a gyneafix coil in for 5 years which now needs to come out. i talked with him about different options and he assured me there were no side effects to being sterilized and now i read your terrible stories i have to say i'm put off. i'm worried about this coil as i have since read awful things about that and i also do not want anything hormonal, so i dont know what else to do...i'm really shocked that you cant get the reversal when it is clearly causing you so much pain...is there anyone out there that has not had any side effects to sterilization?
Hi I am very happily married with two wonderful children and decided that we didn't want anymore, and as my husband hates hospitals and needles I went to see my GP about being sterilised. I was told there wasn't any side effects and it was all very straight forward. I had the op in April this year and have had nothing but pain since. The pain is located mainly on the right hand side and is very severe, I have been backwards and forwards to the doctors and had lots of tests which all come back fine. In fact I am now beginning to feel that they don't believe how painful this is. It is an awful stabbing pain located on the right side. All I am doing now is just taking pain killers. The doctor will not acknowledge it is anything to do with the sterilisation, but I was fine up until i had it. I would advise anyone to think very very carefully and be aware that this can happen.
I can honestly say I had no side effects to sterlisation. It was done about 15 years ago.
hi i was steralised 2 years ago at the age of 30 and i have had nothing but trouble ever since i am now recovering after having an operation 2 days ago to remove the clips as a recent op showed that all 4 clips had came of and the left clips had traveled all the way round to the right side were all 4 clips layed togeather i was then asked if i would consent to this being published in ther medical journel as it had never been seen before after all the pain i have been put through since having this done the hospital still refuses to reverse the operation wich i think is totally wrong after suffering to operations and to years of pain !!
Just wondering if all the ladies who had pain all had clips or bands put on their tubes. I'm 43, got 4 kids, have terrible problems with hormonal contraceptions and doesn't want to rely on barrier methods, so sterilization is the only option. Hubby big woss and can't stand the thought of him going through it.
I was thinking that the pain may come from the pinching of the tubes so maybe cutting and tying would be a better option for me. :roll:
I was sterilised by cutting, cauterising, tying off and clipping. I asked my lovely consultant after many years of begging. I've had period/pain issues but this is nothing to do with the steri op. Being sterilised was the best thing ever......wish I could have had it done years ago when I asked for it. I've had more fun since then than ever in my life. It was like being born again.
The fact that i'm going for a hysterectomy soon is nothing to do with my steri op. Bad things happen to people at times. DO NOT read these horror stories and assume this will happen to you. Weigh the pros and cons that apply to you not someone else.
Hello guys,
I was sterlised when having a c-section with my third child 3 years ago due to not being able to take hormones for contraception as they give me terrible side effects.
Ever since i have been in pain, stabbing pain that makes me cry i have had bleeding all the time which has been getting heavier every month for the past year and after one set of tests two year ago i was told to get some anti depressants and go on the pill!! this year it got so bad i went to a different doctor who told me the same thing but i got referred for tests again which showed nothing, now they have given me a d&c and put a mirena in as they think the hormones going directly to the womb might be more tolerable for me and will stop the bleeding and the pain.
They cant find any reason for what i am feeling and i feel laughed at by the hospital.
I am in terrible pain now and am already feeling the familiar hormonal side effects and i cant help but feel its being sterilised with clips that is the problem but they wont reverse it or even listen to me i keep getting told there is no chance its the sterilisation causing all this but i cant help but think it is. It started the day after i had it done and never had these problems before.
I get told its the pressure of having three kids but i still dont think thats right, they cant see anything.
Not sure what to do but wait it out with the mirena and hope it stops some pain. im too young for a hysterctomy as im only 28.
Hi,
I can't believe I've actually come across people suffering the same syptoms as me. (I swear my hubby thinks I'm exagerating) I'm a 36 year old mother of 3. I asked hubby to have snip ex amount of years ago, but he bottled it. I then fell pregnant with my last child who has just turned 4. When I found out I had to have a pre-booked c-section coz he was so big, we though I might as well get sterilized too and be done with it. What a big mistake. Like all of you, I have suffered from the most horrendous sharp stabbing pains (mainly on the right side) ever since... There is no warning - just bam - like I've been stabbed. I also get horrendous trapped wind and my periods last 2 weeks from start to finish. I so wish I never had it done. My advise to anyone thinking about having it done is DON'T
I was sterilised 7 years ago and it was the best thing i've had done.
It was initially painful immediately after the op and uncomfortable for a couple of days but since then I've had no pain, and the majority of women I know that have been sterilised have had no problems, including my mum who was sterilised 34 years ago.
Just wondering when a couple of you have had sterilisation with C/Sections whether the problem with pain is related to adhesions from having C/Sections rather than due to being sterilised, especially if you have had more than 1 C/Section.
hi,i too was sterilised almost two years ago after having my fourth child by c/section.i regretted it the minute it was.i was having problems with my marriage and my husband at the time convinced me that if i had the sterilisation we would get our marriaghe back on track.needless to say that wasnt the case and we parted 3 weeks after.
Since having the sterilisation i have had nothing but pain and massive blood loss.this completely drains me.i would do anything to have the sterilisation reversed. 
I was sterilised nearly two years ago after having my son and have been desperately unhappy since having it done. I too have experienced a lot of pain on my lower right side of abdomen which is like you say absolutely awful. My sterilisation was rushed in to after myself and my son's father seperated very bitterly and now I have met my soul mate I feel useless and pathetic as I can't give him any more children if he wanted them. We are both in our early thirties so there is still plenty of time if we had wanted to but now I am left feeling a freak who is being crippled by pain and tortured by the fact I can't have any more babies. I am gutted is all I can say and I would strongly strongly recommend NEVER NEVER NEVER has this procedure done.
hi i am 27 and have 3 children all by section so decided to get sterilised after my last. My periods aren't too bad bleeding wise but oh my god the pain for the first day or so. it is also mainly on my right side as if near my ovary? and it cripples me. i also experience awful pain when ovulating. it is like a stabbing pain. i am assuming it must be due to sterlisation? my tubes were cut and tied so no clips involved. i don't know why it does it but haven't been to doctor yet as i don't think there is much they can do. although i might go if it carries on to get some pain relief - tramadol seems to work well although it is strong and can make you feel spaced out. i had some from a previous prescription so have been using that. once it kicks in i can stand up straight again without feeling like i'm being punched in the stomach. glad to know i'm not the only one that suffers.
Hi ladies, I'm 35 and have three lovely children. I was, atually untill now, serriously considering going for sterilisation. I'm quite very confused now of what to do as both Implanon and Injections have given me had times almost every day bleeding.
My husband has considered going for versectomy but reading on its side effects, its all pain too? What can we do now?
I was sterilized in 2006 at my own request. I have two boys now aged 9 and 13.
Almost immediatley I suffered from chronic debilitating pain. (mostly lower right side, sometimes both sides) After yo-yoing in and out of the local Doctors surgery, by partner took my to Casualty who gave me morphine and referred me to the Gyne clinic.
I begged them to take the clips out and in April 2009 they went back in to have a look. The clips have come off and 'migrated'. One was found to be imbedded in my pelvis with tissue growing over it and the other could not be found. I was told that this was NOT the cause of my pain, but I had some slight scarring on my left ovary (Endometriosis).
Finally after a failed Zolodex treatment for Edno I was opereated again in July 2010 and finally had the clips removed. I took my last morphine pill the day after the op and have not looked back since. Ive lost nearly 2 stone, dropped two dress sizes, can run 5K.
Today I had an appointment with the NHS board about my complaint and was told that the in this instance the clips were to blame but they have never heard of it causing problems before.
To all of you ladies out there, get them taken out.
I spend nearly two years on morphine based pills to cover the pain. My kids had to look after me when I was ill. They had to grow up too quickly, which the NHS can never give me back
I have asked them to tell all women who ask for sterilization that the clips often come off the fallopian tubes and basically swim around your nether regions for the rest of your natural life. Pain in these instances may be less than 0.25% of cases, but consider this - do you want titanium and plastic clips attached to your pelvic area and in my case the wall of my bowels?
Oh and they did apologise. I took my complaint to my local Comunity Health Board who have been fantastic. Do not give up hope. Do not back down, you know your body and you know what is wrong.
Hi every one im new to this so I have read through a few comments. I am 32 and I got sterilised 7years ago after having my son. I have had loads of pain and problems since then I have had tests I was even told I had ibs because of all the pain I had the doctor out no end of times and he gave me morphine injection with some think else to try and ease the pain so went back to see my gp and he said its not ibs and they still dont know whats wrong I have now been put on two lots of strong painkillers and it still dont help. It was the clips I had as well I have asked for it to be reversed and all they say is no not on the nhs it costs to much all I want is to be able to come off all the pain killers im on and have no pain.