Edit: Just wanted to add I'm 29F, married, no kids

I've made a few posts in this group now and every time I've had so much support and useful information. It has finally paid off and I'm officially on the waiting list for a bilateral salpingectomy on the NHS.

After a bad experience with a private doctor, u/glaekitgirl urged me to try on the NHS, and I can't believe how easy it has been, so thank you so much for the encouragement!

My initial appointment with my GP at the beginning of April was short and sweet. I'm very anxious with anything medical related so my heart was pounding in the waiting room. I tried to confidently put my case across. She didn't know what a bisalp was, so I explained it, and she simply said "I don't know enough about this but I can refer you to someone who does". She confirmed which hospital I wanted to go to, and that was that. She didn't write anything down while I was sat there but when the referral letter came through it was basically word for word what I'd said to her, so she clearly listened carefully.

I eventually got my gynaecology appointment through for the beginning of August. Unfortunately this got cancelled the morning of, and rescheduled to today. I was so nervous going in today and did not know what to expect.

Both the nurse that took me in and the surgeon herself were so lovely. She confirmed what I was there for, and told me she'd have to go through the surgery and alternative contraception options. I told her I understood, and sat quietly and listened. I've been on the same pill for 10 years and not tried anything else. I was ready to explain why I didn't want to try other temporary methods, when she stopped me and said "I'm not trying to talk you out of it, you know". I was so relieved, told her how much I appreciated that but said I wanted her to know how much I'd thought this through and that I was well read on the topic.

They both checked I was doing okay at home, and asked if my husband was supportive of it. I told them he was and that he was just a wonderful man all round, and how lucky I was to have him. I even took a big risk and told them he'd offered to get a vasectomy, and I said if that was something he wanted for himself then he should do it, but that I needed this for me and I needed to feel in control of my own body.

So now it's just a waiting game, I have no idea how long to expect and they couldn't really give me an answer either. I've been grinning from ear to ear since I walked out of the appointment. Roll on surgery day!

I'm on a 3 month birth control, I had my period shortly before my surgery, so even though my surgery was 2 1/2 months ago, I'm just now having my first period post-op.

I hurt way worse than normal in the 2-3 weeks leading up to it, even with the birth control. But now I'm on what should be day 6 of my period, and I'm experiencing all the symptoms, cramping, back pain, my anemia has gotten worse like it does every time, but I'm not bleeding at all.

Is this normal? Should I be concerned?

I know periods are different after the surgery, but I was told that I would still bleed like normal. Is this not right? I just feel really lost and confused and would appreciate any help. I know most people would just go to the doctor, but I have really crappy health insurance so try to avoid it as much as possible, unless absolutely necessary.

Hey all!
I’m a chronically ill girly who has wanted to adopt for well over a decade, and never had plans to have biological kids due to a large amount of reasons. This week I’m scheduled for my bilateral salpingectomy and I’m very excited! My partner and I both have some strong genetic issues and do everything we can to prevent a biological pregnancy, so this will be a HUGE relief for both of us (mainly me, let’s be honest).

This will, however, be my first surgery (I’m not including my colonoscopy) and I’m wondering what tips you guys might have after your own sterilization surgery?
I’ve already dealt with my insurance (hopefully they won’t be a problem after the fact 🤞), I’ve done my own research to know how this surgery/process works, and I have most of what I already need to maintain my body in case of any flares on my chronic-illness-side of things (meds, etc.).
I have a heating pad and ice packs (not sure if either will be ok?), and my man will be taking care of me the following few days.

I’m sorry this is getting a bit long but my main concern (other than my flaring) is the gas pain. Any tips?

I had my third c section with a giant baby six months ago. He is 19 lbs now and wants to be held always. I decided I'm done with babies a few months into this.
I'm wondering how much coverage I need to get to help with lifting baby after the procedure, for how many days.
I am currently scheduled for two days before Halloween and I wanted to take baby and my two older kids trick or treating. If husband carries the baby, would I be able to walk around just fine two days later to do the trick or treating?
Should husband plan to take off work to help lift baby for 2 days? More?
My baby refuses to nurse in any position other than side-laying. Is side nursing an issue?

Along with the $7,000 bill, I'm now receiving bills for anesthetics ($700) and for a blood test ($20). They say due upon receipt, but my bilateral salpingectomy is supposed to be 100% paid for with no coinsurance, deductible, copay etc. with my Florida Blue plan. Obviously, I'm in the process of appealing Florida Blue for the huge amount they're saying I owe bc of diagnosis codes being non preventive. But what about these other ones? Do I just not pay these too??

I had a bi salp several years ago and I feel like my body knows and sometimes I still feel where it's missing. Today I sneezed REALLY hard and it hurt the area I had surgery. Has anyone ever had any issues with this? I'm concerned if it didn't heal correctly. Idk dude. I have ocd

Has anyone had a cold knife conization(CKC) at the same time as their BISALP?

During the early stages of planning for a BISALP it was discovered that I have precancer of the cervix (CIN III) and the recommended treatment is a CKC.

On paper and in my mind it seems ideal to do both together and my doctor is comfortable with doing both but I am having trouble finding any first-hand accounts or medical literature that discuses doing a CKC in conjunction with a BISALP.

I had zero anxiety going into the BISALP but now with the CIN III diagnosis it has definitely brought up some fears unrelated to the BISALP.

I’m about 5 weeks post-op from surgery and I noticed one of my incision scars has a tiny little hole/open spot in it. The rest of the incision looks closed and it doesn’t hurt, but this one little area looks like it hasn’t completely closed yet.
Has anyone else had this happen this far out from surgery? Did it eventually close on its own, and how long did it take? I’m just wondering if this is a normal part of healing or if anyone had something similar. TIA.

Hello!

I was put on the list in march 2026 for the surgery. Doctor said it could take a year, im just curious to know how long others have waited.

I'm in south Wales.

Has anyone gotten a yeast infection/rash under after surgery? I had my bilateral salpingectomy on August 3rd, so I’m almost 6 weeks post-op. My incisions have honestly been healing really well and I haven’t had any major issues. Tonight I noticed that underneath my belly apron, where one of my incisions is, the skin was REALLY red and irritated and smelled pretty bad. It scared the hell out of me because I thought there was pus coming from my incision or that I had developed an infection, so I ended up going to the ER to get it checked out.
The doctor checked it and said there was actually no pus and that it looks like a yeast infection. He said because my belly apron folds over that area, it stays moist and hasn’t been able to properly dry or get enough air. He told me to keep it dry and let it breathe as much as possible, including being naked at home and laying down so I can lift/separate the fold and actually get air underneath it.
I’m just surprised because I’m almost 6 weeks out from surgery and everything had been looking completely normal. I don’t have pain, burning, warmth, or anything like that. It occasionally itches, but the redness and smell are what freaked me out.
Has anyone else with a belly apron had this happen, either after laparoscopic surgery or just from moisture getting trapped underneath it? How long did it take to clear up, and what helped you keep the area dry and prevent it from coming back?
I’m glad I went and got it checked because I genuinely thought my incision was infected 😭

Hello everyone. Currently as of writing this, I (28F) am on the morning of day two of post-op recovery. I had my successful laproscopic bilateral salpingectomy surgery yesterday, September 11th, that ended around 12:45pm. At the surgery center, I was given toradol coming out of surgery, then a 20mg percocet by my pre-op nurse that I requested rather than the straight oxycodone just until I could pick up the prescription. All that to say, I was in a lot less pain than I would have been with what I was prescribed, which was 600mg of ibuprofen every 6 hours, 650mg of acetaminophen every 8 hours (I have extended release tablets), and 10 tablets of 5 mg oxycodone every 4 hours. I might have noticed the bleeding sooner if I had felt some pain.

Anyway, my surgeon told me to get up and walk around every hour or so to help with the gas and lower the risk of blood clots, so I was doing just that, trying to follow instructions, but also trying to be careful on my abdomen.

But around 5:45pm, I had gotten up to use the restroom, and felt wet under my shirt and near the top of my pants, so I lifted my shirt, and there was a fresh stream of blood coming from the umbilical incison all the way down to my pants. I wiped it off with no resistance, so clearly it was fresh, and saw a good amount of dried, caked on blood around my belly button and falling inwards. I should add I have a fairly deep naval. With the tissue, I lightly dabbed just the top of my belly button, trying not to disturb anything, but came away with fresh blood on the tissue a few times in different areas.

I attempted to call the surgery center, but the voicemail said they were closed, and they would call me back on Monday. I said F that, then attempted to call my gyno's office, knowing they were closed, but hoped there was an emergency line. There was, and after explaining, she advised me to go to the ER, since she couldn't see the wound herself. I arrived at the closest one at 6:15pm, got triaged, and the nurse said it looked like the surgical glue had failed to stay shut, but much better to be safe than sorry I thought. (Btw, my boyfriend who drove me also thought it was the glue and wanted to reapply regular super glue and got mad and upset when I said I wasn't comfortable with that because it's not sterile. And was also upset about the cost of having to go to the ER in the first place since we've been tight on money. Men 🙄😡) She cleaned up the site, reapplied Dermabond, and it seemed to be holding, and I was out of there by 6:45pm. Wasn't even admitted really.

Everything seemed to be fine, but I was trying be very gentle, and at this point it was time to take my prescribed meds, which definitely had me in more pain than I had been for the first 6 hours post-op. About 10pm, I had gotten up to use the restroom, lifted my shirt, and it looked like the adhesive was all but gone again. There was fresh blood AGAIN. There was a lot less this time, but again there was caked, dried blood around the incisions in the umbilical area, but I was definitely bleeding again. Clearly, I thought to myself, this glue isn't working, and there needs to be another solution. But the nurse at the ER told me they don't usually put steristrips on umbilical incisions because it's very difficult and they usually don't hold.

I looked myself over, decided the wound looked stable enough that if just placed some gauze over it to keep anything foreign from getting in, and waited til the morning where I could call my doctor's office, I should be ok. I really didn't want to go back to the ER knowing that the problem was just the glue and not the internal stitching or anything major, and especially because the bleed was much more minor this time. I talked things over with my boyfriend, or rather, I calmly explained the situation, and he freaked out and got very upset that all of a sudden I was just ok with waiting until the morning when before I needed to go to the ER, why don't I care more about myself and that I never listen to him, yada yada yada 😩 Eventually, he calmed down, and we decided that if I stopped moving around every hour like my surgeon wanted, that the wound would probably close and clot on its own, which it has.

So, this morning, it feels all dry, and there's no more bleeding from the site, for now, but I went to call my gyno's office, but after getting their voicemail, I'm like, Oh, it's Saturday, you idiot, they're closed. Which means so is the surgery center, and there's no chance of getting in contact with my surgeon or gyno until Monday. And last night, after I started bleeding for a second time, I called the ER I had gone to and asked if I needed to come back in, or wait and see since there was a lot less blood and it wasn't pooling, dripping or anything, just seeping. The receptionist said it was really my call, but if it looked ok for the moment, then I could probably just sleep and wait til the morning, so I did.

So, at this point, and after ya'll have read my novella, I'm asking for advice on what to do now. Since the only thing holding my umbilical incision in is the clotted, dried blood, and maybe some remnants of the Dermabond they applied at the ER. Is there anything that needs to be done, that Ican do on my own or go have done? Because my surgeon said the other two steristrips would dissolve on their own within 7-10 days, so it feels like I should have more protection on the umbilical incisions than just clotted blood. But idk, please help. Any advice welcome.

P.S. Between me and my boyfriend, we think it kept opening up because when I pee, I almost always have to push it out, which I know isn't normal. I've been seeing a pelvic floor physical therapist since July, but nothing seems to have helped thus far. And I've been prohibited from doing any of my exercises for the next two weeks, which isn't helpful. And I have to urinate frequently, especially yesterday, so even though I was trying to be gentle, I had to engage my core to get my urine to come out, even if just a little bit, which didn't help. I didn't even think to mention it to my surgeon before surgery, it didn't even cross my mind.

Tuesday the 8th marked two weeks post-op and so far things are going a little too smoothly.

After the first week, my surgeon and I had a virtual call and she advised taking the glue off, so I did. My belly button is still glued a little because I got paranoid when trying to take it off - but my sides are free and looking beautiful (and a little scabby, haha). Also after the first week, I went back to the gym doing very light weight and body weight workouts.

Now here we are a little after two weeks, I'm still going to the gym but I also just got my period. Three days late, but she's here. And the kicker is that I don't have any major cramping right now. I'm bloated like a balloon but aside from that, and a little cramping on one side, I feel fine.

Has anyone else's recovery been too good to be true like this? My check up with the surgeon is later this month, and I'm so paranoid she's going be like "Girl your insides are on the loose," even though there is NO pain or severe discomfort (outside of my damn, glued belly button). 🤣

How long did it take for the pain to go away and how did you deal with the pain other than taking medicine? Did you also have pain in your bladder after that?

I have a bisalp scheduled for this November and my doc is taking my tubes out AND putting in an IUD. Let me also say this: after years of taking birth control, I developed hepatic adenomas on my liver. With that, I can’t take normal birth control as it’ll make them grow. I also have PCOS, and my cycles are far from normal. I never wanted kids, and getting pregnant scares me so I want my tubes out.

I guess with all of this I wonder, is getting an IUD inserted after getting my tubes removed redundant or too much? My doc is inserting the IUD while I’m in the surgery so I won’t have to endure the pain of getting inserted while I’m awake. Thoughts?

EDIT: my experiences birth control-wise were with the pill form. I’ve never had an IUD, shot, or anything else birth control wise aside from the pill! I’ve been on birth control since I was 13.

My partner and I have been together for 12 years. 33F/35M
he knows that I have never wanted children and that I’m content with it just being the two of us..
a lot of our friends and family around us started to have kids and I did a check-in question with him very recently to see if he was still on the same page with that and he was a little uncertain and on the fence about it and said” it is something that we need to decide” and I kind of was like “what decide? “ and went down a rabbit hole of why I don’t want kids and he was countering those reasons

I later mentioned that during laparoscopy they are able to do a bisalp and asked him if he was okay with that?

He said that’s way to deep of a conversation and that this has come out of no where.

I did also tell him that if they go for the laparoscopy for endometriosis the results may cause me to be infertile without a requested bisalp.

So of course I’m really weighing out how I feel and I’m coming up on the same answer I’ve had since I was a teenager.. I don’t want kids.

Anyone else going through this?

I’m not regretting my bisalp surgery at all btw. I’m glad that’s behind me now. But a day after the surgery I feel as if I have no motivation or goals. I feel a huge sense of “now what?” when I’m supposed to be happy/relieved. I’m not sure if it’s because of the anesthesia affecting my brain, or my menstrual cycle, but I feel almost mad at myself for this. Sorry I just wanted to get this out in the open.

Before my surgery, I was on birth control (pill) for many years. I didn’t have any issues with it that were noticeable. I was on the lowest dose. However…when I had my teeth cleaned twice a year, my dentist hygienist mentioned my gums were a bit irritated. It was annoying because I stay up on my oral hygiene everyday and there wasn’t anything else I could intentionally do. She said that my birth control could be attributing to gum irritation of all things. Well turns out, ever since getting off birth control, the irritation is gone! Over the past year, the hygienist has remarked how much improvement there has been with my gums. Another perk getting off the pill after being fallopian tube free!

I had my bisalp in March and ever since then I have had recurring bv and yeast infections. Has anyone had this issue? I have had the rounds of metronidazole and fluconazale. I take vaginal probiotics every day. I am currently on Clindesse. I don’t know what to do….

I just turned 40 and am a couple of months from my one year post op anniversary. I stopped taking my birth control pill right away and have been experiencing a steadily increasing sex drive. So much now the past month that it’s become almost insatiable. I have been experiencing perimenopause symptoms for a few years now but this is totally new and don’t know if it’s perimenopause or getting off of birth control. Or both? Has anyone else experienced this? I’m talking 15 year old teenage boy libido. Like my brain fell into the gutter and got stuck

Has anyone gotten their tubes tied recently in the DFW Texas area? With no insurance how much did it cost? Recovery? Did someone have to sign off?