Pregnancy after Tubal Reversal - 5 Steps to Be Safe
Finding out what you do for pregnancy after tubal reversal is one of the things many women researching this type of surgery will want to know. Are the steps you have to take in your early pregnancy ones you can handle easily? Just keep on reading to know what steps you will need for a pregnancy after tubal reversal.
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.
While home pregnancy tests are very accurate, you could still get a negative indication on one. However, if you still show signs of being pregnant, try taking it again in a few days. Otherwise, you might want to get a blood test done at the doctor’s office.
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 your doctor can’t see a gestational sac, then you need to go through this again in a couple days. Have your HCG level checked again, which should still be increasing, and get another ultrasound done. Sometimes the gestational sac will not be clear until the HCG reaches 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.
Beyond all of the above, if you were lucky enough to have Dr. Gary Berger of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center as your tubal reversal doctor, he will want to know right away that you are pregnant. Please be sure to submit the Pregnancy Report as soon as you test positive for being pregnant. He wants to be kept up to date and is available for any questions or concerns from his patients. The Chapel Hill staff is even available seven days a week to answer your questions.