Tubal surgery can be scary. It’s surgery after all. Whether you are in for a tubal reversal or to have your blocked tubes fixed, you don’t know what you are facing. Below you will be able to get a feel for what you will experience the day of your surgery as done at one of the leading tubal centers, the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. Not all centers are this good and most certainly it will be a different experience than you would get at a hospital.
After you arrive you will be taken to the pre-op room where you will change out of your street clothes into surgical garb. This consists of the gown, head cover and booties. As a tip, it’s highly suggested that you bring some good comfy socks to wear to keep your feet warm. As “cold feet” can have more than one meaning, there is a staff member right there to answer any questions you might have and to help make you comfortable.
But that’s not the last medical person you will see before your tubal surgery. The anesthesiologist stops by to check out your heart and lungs again. You also get a chance to ask her or him any other questions you may have. The CHTRC is going to make sure you get everything answered to the best of their abilities. Now you will be hooked up to an IV and given any other necessary medications.
Now, here’s the shocker. You walk (yes, I said walk) with a nurse into the operating room fully conscious. And guess what? You get still another chance to ask any questions that come up at the last minute. Next you will climb onto the operating table with help and will have a strap put across you to help keep you on the table. They even add a pillow under your legs to help you be as comfortable as it is to be on an operating table. That’s also going to make your back more comfortable. They will hook you up to monitors and then it’s sleepy time as the anesthesia is finally added.
After about an hour which is how long your tubal surgery should take, you will be taken to the recovery room. You will wake up with the monitors still in place and an oxygen mask on your face. A nurse will be right there with you watching over you. She or he will check that you are again as comfortable as you can be, learn what your pain level is, and see if you are nauseous. The staff will do whatever they can to help. You will stay laying down for an hour or two in this very quiet room till you have recovered enough.
Next, you will be assisted in changing back to your street clothes and helped into a recliner. Time to sit up some and start drinking clear fluids. The surgeon, Dr. Berger or Dr. Monteith, will come by to check on you and give you a report from the surgery. The most important thing you will learn is how long your fallopian tubes are now the tubal surgery is done. As that is an important factor in being able to get pregnant, along with age, you need to pay close attention.
Once you have been able to urinate you will head out to your hotel room. Many of the CHTRC’s patients come from out of the area, so they return to their hotel room once recovery is complete enough. You will stay at least one night there after surgery. Sure does beat the old hospital bed and the noise of the hospital (and hospital staff coming in and out of your room at all hours of the day and night). You will be able to get a good night’s sleep.
The next morning you will be checked out again by one of the tubal reversal center’s staff. They will make sure you are doing good after your tubal surgery, check the incision, and give you instructions for the care of it and yourself. At last, you are free to return home. Some ladies want to wait another night but most do fly or drive home that afternoon.
So you see your tubal surgery can be a quiet and less stressful event than you would face in a hospital. Not only that but a tubal reversal at the hands of the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center surgeons means you are in the hands of the most experienced and the world’s leading doctors in the field. Just check out the message board and all the messages of gratitude on their website to learn this for yourself.
