Julian Bradley wrote:
> At 14:50 17/03/2005, you wrote:
>
>> I find this discussion very interesting. I have been in General practice
>> over 20 years now, and we have had a true vasectomy failure (never had
>> sterile semen sample collected afterwards), a false vasectomy failure
>> (wife
>> had a one night stand with someone, semen was sterile), several coil
>> failures, and NEVER had a female sterilisation failure, nor has any GP I
>> have ever spoken to had patients with the latter.
>>
>> So, how many of you have seen lap sterilisation failures, and how do
>> they
>> compare in your practice to failure rates for these other methods?
>>
>> Laurie Miles
>
>
> Ditto, GP >20 years, no recollection of seeing a sterilization
> failure. I
> think it's reasonable to guess that's >2000 patient years of
> experience. However at one time I thought a failure rate of 1 in 1-2000
> per lifetime was being quoted - so the non-occurrence in any one GPs
> experience would be expected.
>
> Julian
>
I've had one, pregnant after years of sterilisation, probably tubal
ligation. Amenorrhea initially
blamed on early menopause.
Allan Harris
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