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Why Don’t Doctors Offer Tubal Reversal Surgery More Often?
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If you are a woman who has had her tubes tied and then regretted that decision, you are certainly not alone. Many women have tubal ligation each year and then later decide they would like to have more children. Unfortunately, some women and their doctors are not aware of a procedure called a tubal reversal. Instead, they end up opting for in vitro fertilization (IVF) which can be very expensive.
For some reason, many doctors are under the impression that the only way a woman can get pregnant after having her tubes tied is by having IVF. This may be so because many doctors are not taught about tubal reversal surgery in medical school. Even doctors who go into reproductive endocrinology may have never seen a tubal reversal surgery done during school or at the hospital where they trained. One reason for this is that most health insurance does not cover the cost of the surgery and most hospitals want insurance for such procedures.
No matter what the reason your doctor may not know to offer this reversal procedure option, it is important for women to understand the high cost of in vitro fertilization as compared with having a tubal reversal surgery done. To start you should know that reversal surgery averages $8000 - $9000. However, there are top notch doctors which offer this option for less and there are very experienced doctors with this procedure as this is all they do. Check out the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center website for more information.
Each year in the United States, about 2 million women will have some kind of fertility treatment. Most women begin with some kind of drug treatment to assist with ovulation. That can range in price up to $1500 each menstrual cycle. Not only does the woman have to pay for the medication, but also the doctor’s visits and ultrasound scans required to follow her during treatment.
Of course, if that doesn’t work then doctors usually move onto some sort of assisted reproductive therapy. If you had a tubal ligation you are trying to overcome, you will proceed directly to this step which itself requires medication so you will superovulate and the ultrasounds to check progress and then the painful procedure to recover all the eggs released.
Commonly, a couple will go through the process of in vitro fertilization which can cost an average of $10,000 - $12,000 per cycle. While some are lucky enough to get pregnant on their first try, most often you will have to attempt more than one cycle. As you can see, that can become very expensive over time. That is the number of women having previous cycles goes down with each cycle added. They simply can’t afford it.
This is why it is so important for doctors to offer the option of having tubal reversal surgery rather than immediately jumping into IVF. It is an option that is not only less expensive, but it also allows the woman to try to get pregnant each and every month if she wants. With each month, her chances get better and better whereas with the other option, it does not. How we get better informed doctors to let women know this information given the lack of medical training in the procedure is a question we simply don’t know how to answer.
To learn more about this surgical option, please review these tubal reversal videos. Visit the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center website as well at http://www.tubal-reversal.net/ You can also get a FREE phone consultation at (919) 968-4656 which should answer many of your questions. Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/women’s-health-articles/why-dont-doctors-offer-tubal-reversal-surgery-more-often-1775974.html
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Which Ab Workout Equipment To Use?
Posted by admin @ 6:36 pmOver the years, body builders have regularly used weights, dumb-bells and other equipment whilst exercising to develop their muscles or even to maintain them.
One of the latest and best pieces of ab workout equipment that you can use to develop your abdominal muscles has to be the ball. Until recently, the ball was regarded as not really being suitable but things have moved on. These days many people use the ball in their regular workout routines either at the gym or at home.
Over the years, the use of the ball has grown in popularity and most people use it in their ab workout exercises today. Exercising with the ball can be fun and they are available in different weights and sizes and can be used in some of your ab workout exercises.
People who use the ball in their regular exercise routines have commented on how quickly their upper and lower abdominal muscles seem to develop. So if you want to see how easy it can be to develop your abs, I would recommend that you adopt the exercise ball as a part of your regular exercise routine.
By using the ball, you will be able to perform the many exercises where you need to rotate the trunk, in order to exercise and strengthen the abs.
Some users of the ball have said that they have found it easier to do ‘raised leg exercises and routines’ when they have used the ball.
Alternatively, by going to the gym for your daily workout, you have access to a wide variety of other pieces of equipment.
There will be different types of cable machines that can be used, as well as non cable weight machines available for your use. By using the weight cable machines, you will be able to exercise your abdominal muscles in a variety of different ways, by intensifying the amount of pressure that you work against.
These are just a couple of the types of exercise equipment that is available, either for use at home or in your local gym. But most importantly of all, you will need to establish a routine and regularly work through it for positive results.
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Menstruation Disorders — Symptoms, Causes and Treatments Of Amenorrhea Caused By Kidney Yin Deficiency In TCM Perspective
Posted by admin @ 9:41 pmKidney yin deficiency is defined as a condition of the yang is not rising. Since kidney is one of organ governed the reproductive system and regulates the production of certain hormones during the process of menstrual cycle, deficiency of kidney yin distorts each step of the reductive function in phrase I, leading to prolonged yin phrase.
I. Symptoms
1. Feeling hot in palms and soles
2. Heat sensations;
3. Night sweats
4. Flushed face; emaciated features;
6. Dry mouth
7. Premature gray hair
8. Hot flush
9. Vagina dryness
10. Scanty cervical mucus
11. Amenorrhea or decreased menstrual flow and
12. Infertility in females and low sperm count in men
13. Etc.
II. Causes
1. Occupation
Women who work in a hot environment work place for a prolonged period of time will cause yin deficiency as the women body need to maintain the normal temperture by cooling down the body.
2. Unhealthy diet
Women who love to diet with high level of saturated fat and trans fat as well as drinking cold drink comes directly from the refrigerator are most likely to suffer kidney yin deficiency caused by excessive yang produced in the stomach’s function in food absorption.
3. Spleen qi deficiency
Since spleen in charge of transformation qi and fluid in the body and to the other organ, damage of the spleen or stomach inability to provide enough yin for the productive organ to perform its normal menstrual cycle, cause prolonged yin phrase.
4. Aging
Since women are classified as yin in nature, aging causes depletion of kidney essence -the true yin in the body, leading to scanty period or amenorrhea and early menopause.
III. Treatments
A. With herbs
1. Chinese angelica roots (Dong qui)
It is one of most effective blood tonic herb. Whenever there are qi deficiency, it also causes blood deficiency.
2. Rehmannia glutinosa (Shu di huang)
It is one of the good herb for tonifying blood, nourishing yin and blood and enriching kidney essence.
3. Ligustrum lucidum (Nu zhen zi)
Nu zhen zi is good for liver and kidney tonification and clearing heat due to yin deficiency.
4. Morus Albus (Sang shen)
The herbs is most used in nourishing yin, tonifying blood and promoting the generation of body fluids
B. With acupuncture
Suggested acupuncture points:
1. BL15 (Xin shu)
2. BL18 (Gan shu)
3. BL23 (Shen shu)
4. HT7 (Shen men)
5. KD3(Tai Xi) and
6. LI3 (Tai chong) and
7. SP6 (San yin jiao)
8. Etc.
C. With foods
1. Kelp
2. Potato
3. Tomato
4. Yam
5. Avocado
6. Lemon
7. Pear
8. Pineapple
9. Watermelon
10. Black beans
11. Coconut milk
12. All Fishes
13. Fresh water clam, and crab
14. Oyster
15. Beef
16. Pork
17. Pork kidney
18. Chicken egg
19. Honey
20. Etc.
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I have been studying natural remedies for disease prevention for over 20 years and working as a financial consultant since 1990. Master degree in Mathematics, teaching and tutoring math at colleges and universities before joining insurance industries.
