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1) So Much to Learn By Participating on the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center Message Board
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center maintains a message board that allows prospective, current, and past patients of Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith to share information with each other and staff regarding any issue related to tubal ligation reversal. A member starts a new thread and writes, "Well, I am planning on having tubal reversal in January, and as I read these messages I realize there is so much to learn." Other message board members respond with suggestions and advice. "This board is a wealth of information - if it's a treatment, option or issue, someone here has done it, tried it or researched it!" Anyone who has had a tubal reversal procedure performed by Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith or who is planning on having a ligation reversal in the future will find the Tubal Reversal Message Board to be an excellent resource.

2) Tubal Reversal Patients Praise Staff at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center
Someone unfamiliar with Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center might wonder what makes people travel to Chapel Hill, North Carolina from such long distances to have a tubal ligation reversal. The answer is simple. Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith have the best doctor reputations and experience as tubal ligation reversal specialists. That is what they do exclusively and the Tubal Reversal Center is dedicated to just one thing - providing the best medical care for patients having their tubes untied. Staff members at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal explain how they help make reverse tubal ligation safe, comfortable, and successful for women to become pregnant after tubal ligation. Each staff member has expertise in caring for outpatient tubal reversal patients. A high staff/patient ratio with nurses devoted specifically to each patient's care means women receive safe, personalized, and professional care. Our friendly and caring will assist you 7 days a week, including holidays.

3) When Can You Start Trying To Conceive After Tubal Reversal Surgery?
A Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center patient seeks advice on the Tubal Reversal Message Board and asks, "I was wondering if there is a certain time that we should wait after tubal reversal surgery before we 'baby dance'?" The tubal reversal doctors, Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith, advise patients that they may try to conceive whenever they feel they have recovered fully from surgery and feel comfortable doing so. Reversal of tubal ligation restores fertility, so that pregnancy can occur naturally any time after the tubes have been repaired.

4) Miracle Possible - Tubal Reversal Testimonial #867
"I can't say enough for what Dr. Berger and his team at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center have done for our family and made this miracle possible. I hope and pray that everyone has this chance in life - the outcome is priceless." Eric and Barbara B. Puyallup, Washington. Tubal Reversal: 4/22/08, Samantha Elizabeth born 10/26/2009.

5) Pregnant With Tubal Reversal Baby
This is a heart warming story told by Erin K. about being pregnant with her tubal reversal baby and what made her decide to have her tubes untied by Dr. Berger at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center.

6) Dr. Monteith's Patient Posts A Message After Her Tubal Reversal Surgery
A patient who had just undergone tubal reversal surgery the same morning posts on the message board of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center from the comforts of her hotel room. She writes "The day went well, and everyone at the center is just so wonderful and sweet! Dr. Monteith did my surgery, and he said everything went well." She reports feeling well, but being tired. This is typical for patients who have had outpatient tubal reversal surgery at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. Chapel Hill Surgical Center is the only medical facility dedicated exclusively to tubal reversal surgery and is licensed by the North Carolina Division of Facility Services. Personalized care is easier to provide in this small, private outpatient setting when compared to a larger hospital. We have a higher clinical staff to patient ratio than the average hospital and we concentrate all of our attention on the safety and comfort of our tubal reversal patients.

7) Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center Patient Reports Ultrasound Findings
Less than eight months after having tubal reversal surgery at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, Jennifer reports "Ultrasound showed the baby is in the uterus and we are good to go! We go for another ultrasound on the 13th of November!! We couldn't be more excited!! Thank You Dr. Monteith!" Tubal reversal patients who become pregnant are advised to have a vaginal ultrasound when serum HCG levels reach 1500. (HCG is the pregnancy hormone.) At that time, a vaginal ultrasound should show a gestation sac within the uterus in a normally developing intrauterine pregnancy. Part of our long term follow-up care after your tubal reversal is following your early pregnancy along with you and your local physician.

8) Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center and Stress Free Surgery
Our tubal reversal patients can be assured our staff will make every effort to have your tubal reversal surgery be as stress free as possible. Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center message board members also offer support to future patients by sharing their positive reversal surgery experiences. 'In-Gods-Hands' writes, "My recovery time in the center was very short. The pain was less than my 2 c-sections I had before." 'TulipGarden' writes, "Chapel Hill (staff) made me feel very comfortable. Everyone here has expertise in caring for and performing reversal surgery." During your stay at our center you will only be with other women and couples who are here for tubal surgery. This provides an opportunity to create lasting friendships with other tubal reversal sisters and spouses. Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center specializes only in corrective tubal surgery and we work to create a seamless tubal reversal experience for our patients.

9) Contemplating Tubal Reversal Surgery
For women who are contemplating tubal ligation reversal many will be happy to know Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the only outpatient surgery center which offers doctors who specialize exclusively in tubal reversal surgery. Our surgeons, Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith, are able to successfully reverse tubal ligations 98% of the time. Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center receives weekly positive pregnancy reports from former patients. Dr. Berger is widely recognized as the tubal reversal doctor with the most experience. It's no wonder why many women chose to have their tubal ligations reversed at our reversal center.

10) Satisfied With Tubal Reversal Surgery Experience
A recent tubal reversal patient writes a testimonial praising the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center staff, "I want to say thank you! You and your staff made my tubal reversal experience outstanding. Every smiling face in your office helped me relax and calmed my nerves! Thank you again for taking such great care of me and my husband! My entire experience, from beginning to end, was excellent! Erika, thank you! Martha, who took great care of me before and after surgery! Pam, my wonderful CRNA and Robin who provided me and Adam with excellent post op care at the hotel. Again, thank you Dr. Berger we hope to send you a Berger Baby picture soon! Thanks! -Misty and Adam S."

11) Feeling Great After Tubal Reversal Surgery
A tubal reversal patient posts on the message board of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center her status after undergoing tubal reversal surgery yesterday. "I was Dr Berger's first appointment this morning and all I gotta say is I feel great. I am so glad that we had made this decision to travel all the way from Hawaii to get the tubal reversal done -so worth it. Everything was great from the friendliness of the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center staff all the way to them walking me out to the shuttle back to the hotel. You all got two thumbs up and, Dr. Berger , thank you so much for a second chance for my husband and I to have babies! Also to the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center staff - Thank You for being so great with me. I will remember this adventure for the rest of my life. Thank you and mahalo."

12) How to Get to Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center From the RDU Airport
Members of the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Message Board discuss logistics for their upcoming tubal reversal surgery. Patients having their tubes untied at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center are able to prepare for their surgery with the help of the "What To Expect" brochure. This brochure is provided to all tubal reversal patients once they schedule their reversal surgery. Recommendations for transportation to our center can be found on the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center website.

13) Woman Pregnant After Having Her Tubes Reversed at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center
A prior tubal reversal patient of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center reports a pregnancy after her recent tubal reversal journey. Our surgical center is the only facility solely dedicated to tubal reversal surgery in the country. Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith offer the hope of natural pregnancy after having their tubes reversed. While many physicians tell their patients their tubes are not reparable, Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith are able to repair fallopian tubes in 98% of patients.

14) Swine Flu and H1N1 Vaccination for Tubal Reversal Patients
The tubal reversal doctors at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center advise their tubal reversal patients about H1N1 Swine flu. This article provides an overview of H1N1 infection and recommendations for vaccination, based on the most recent public health data, for women who are pregnant or seeking to become pregnant after tubal ligation reversal.

15) Now You Can Have the Answers to Any Questions That You May Have about Tubal Reversal Surgery
Many people contact Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center seeking information about tubal reversal surgery with Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith. Their most frequent questions are about success rates, the procedure and recovery, cost and insurance, risks and alternatives. The Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center website provides answers to these questions and the interactive message board provides support and an opportunity to have your questions answered by one our staff members directly.

16) Does The Length of Time Between Tubal Ligation and Tubal Reversal Surgery Affect the Outcome of the Reversal?
A member of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center Message Board asks other members how long they waited before undergoing tubal reversal surgery. Although a women's age is always a factor related to fertility, the length of time since the tubal ligation does not affect the outcome of the reversal. The damage done to the tubes at the time of the sterilization does not worsen over time, but is related specifically to the type of sterilization that was performed. Fortunately, Dr. Berger is able to repair the tubes in 98% of cases, regardless of the type of sterilization or the length of time since the tubal ligation.

17) Tubal Reversal Patients Report Pregnancies with Varying Tube Lengths
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center Message Board members congratulate each other after reviewing the Weekly Pregnancy Report Forum. One Message Board member indicates that seeing tube lengths ranging from 2.0 cm to 9.5 cm makes her happy and gives her hope. Many women who have chosen Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith as their tubal reversal doctors have reported pregnancies with tubal lengths as short as 2 cm following surgery. One of the advantages of 'untying' tied tubes is that once the fallopian tubes are repaired - even if they are short - fertility is restored and pregnancy can occur at anytime.

18) Can Tubes That Are Burned be Repaired?
A new member of the Tubal Reversal Message Board wrote that she had a Bipolar Coagulation procedure and was looking for information about having it reversed and the outcomes following tubal ligation reversal. Bipolar cautery is the most common laparoscopic sterilization procedure performed in the United States. Approximately 70% of women with bipolar cautery procedures will become pregnant after reversal of tubal ligations at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center.

19) Preparing For Tubal Reversal Surgery
Members of the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center Message Board discuss what they need to do to prepare for their visit to Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. After scheduling your Tubal Reversal Surgery, you will receive our 'What to Expect' brochure. This brochure will walk you through the tubal reversal process from beginning to the end. Additional resources about where to go and what to do in Chapel Hill North Carolina can be found on the 'Where to Stay' page of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center's website.

20) Connecting on the Message Board After Having Tubal Reversal Surgery
The message board of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center offers a great place for patients to meet up and connect both before and after their tubal reversal surgery. One group of women had their tubal reversal surgeries on the same day and they recently reconnected on the message board. A member of this group affectionately refers to the group as her "tubal reversal sisters". Patients, along with Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center doctors and nurses, routinely use the message board as a tool to keep in touch and stay connected with each other.

21) Tubal Reversal Surgery and Pregnancy After Age 40
A new member of the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center Message Board submits a post seeking information about having her tubes untied. Tubal reversal nurses and message board members provide feedback and share stories about becoming pregnant after age 40 following tubal reversal surgery. Although the natural fertility rate declines with age, women can become pregnant as long as menstruation is occurring. This means there is no specific age limit to prevent a woman from having a tubal ligation reversal. A serum FSH assay may be useful in determining the status of a woman's ovarian reservoir of remaining eggs. In a follow-up study of more than 1500 patients who had tubal reversal surgery with Dr. Gary Berger and Dr. Charles Monteith, pregnancy success rates for older women who underwent tubal reversal during the period from January 2006 to July 2007 were approximately 50%. Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the only facility in the country dedicated solely to tubal reversal surgery.

22) Tubal Reversal Surgery Is Possible Even In Difficult Situations
Women who have had their tubes tied and now want to have more children worry that tubal reversal surgery may not work for them. One way to determine your pregnancy success rate with tubal reversal procedure is by obtaining the operative report from your tubal ligation. You can then send the report to our surgeons for review. There are multiple situations where other doctors could not (or would not) perform tubal reversal surgery, such as when a patient has had a fimbrectomy, previous pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, or has a tubal ligation procedure which may require a tubal implantation for reversal. In these situations, Dr. Gary Berger and Dr. Charles Monteith correct the problem of the tubes due to the diseased condition as well as restoring tubal patency via the most appropriate reversal operation. Extensive surgical experience is an important factor in deciding which doctor should perform your tubal reversal surgery. If a woman has short tubes, missing tubal segments, fimbrectomy, or preexisting diseased fallopian tubes, then our reversal surgeons have the experience to successfully perform tubal corrective surgery. While most doctors would be unwilling - or unable - to perform a reversal in one of these situations, Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center are able to repair tubes in 98% of cases, regardless of the type of tubal sterilization previously performed.

23) Swine Flu Vaccine Recommended for Women Trying to Become Pregnant
Dr. Gary Berger, Medical Director of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, posts this message on the Tubal Reversal Message Board, "I want to recommend the H1N1 vaccine to everyone trying to become pregnant. Contracting the Swine flu virus during pregnancy is dangerous to both mother and fetus, and the vaccine will protect you. Contact your local health department and they will consider you as a priority for immunization." Dr. Berger's board certification in Preventive Medicine and Public Health supplements his specialization as a Tubal Reversal Surgeon. This recommendation is extremely important for the safety of mothers and babies during pregnancy.

24) Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome - A Long Journey
Women who experience the symptoms of Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome have had a long journey. They often must contend with doctors who discount their symptoms or do not acknowledge an association with their tubal ligations. But if they do have appropriate medical evaluations, some will find that other conditions are causing their symptoms. At the end of this journey, those who remain without a specific medical diagnosis will indeed have Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome.

25) Psychological Conditions or Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome?
Several common psychological conditions can mimic Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome (PTLS). These include major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This is the fifth part of a 14 article series about Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome published by the tubal reversal specialists at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center.

26) Tubal Ligation Reversal Blog - Guilt or Regret about Tubes Tied
The decision to have one's tubes tied (tubal ligation) is often made under stressful circumstances. This can lead to regret and guilt over the decision. Some women choose to have their tubes untied to relieve the burden of regret or guilt as well as to be able to have another child after a tubal ligation.

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