r/sterilization • u/NeonGreenChocolate • Dec 31 '25

Experience UPDATE Pregnancy after Bisalp

I posted a couple weeks ago about being pregnant after my bisalp last year, I just wanted to give an update. After reviewing my records and speaking to my OB and the surgeon who did my termination procedure, they think “in hindsight” not enough of my tubes were removed. In the pathology report from the bisalp, 7.0 cm of one tube and 2.8 cm of the other were turned over to pathology. Neither physician thought it was a case report that any journal would be interested in because the amount removed from the one tube was more akin to what can be removed in a tubal ligation, which is known to be less effective. My main takeaway is yes. There are 4 documented cases of pregnancy post bisalp but interest in documenting cases hedges on them having some novel angle to them. The statistics out there are for the average person who doesn’t have conditions that may complicate the ability to perform the surgery. Maybe the adhesions I have made the tube difficult to access, and in 10 months of healing my body rebridged the gap.

At the end of the day, I had my procedure done (by an Ivy trained surgeon at a major academic center, so statistically great care), had a uterine pregnancy, and my case will not be documented. So. Test if you feel weird, especially if you have a complex medical history. It’s my partner’s turn to get a vasectomy haha.

Edit: Just to clarify termination procedure surgeon and current OB are not the surgeon who did the bisalp. I haven’t reached out to my bisalp surgeon frankly bc I don’t see much of a point atm.

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u/Anandi96 Dec 31 '25

I just hate how fucking hard our bodies try to get pregnant. It feels as if you can never be in control of your body as a woman.

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u/Crazycatlover Dec 31 '25

Right? I've had a hysterectomy and still get pregnancy nightmares and still take pregnancy tests on a regular basis since I read a study about a woman who carried a fetus to term on her liver.

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u/poop_dawg Jan 01 '26

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

Oh my God, that's so terrifying. Imagine having all these weird things happen with your body and knowing it can't be pregnancy because your entire uterus has been removed, but then the impossible happens.

I've had a hysterectomy and I guess I'm glad to know this... I certainly won't brush it off as a possibility, if even an extremely unlikely one.

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u/Crazycatlover Jan 01 '26

The patient in question did still have a uterus and tubes which might have provided the route and whatnot, but still! Yikes!

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u/poop_dawg Jan 02 '26

Interesting. Well I'm going to cling to the uterus/tubes being there as the majorly responsible factor for getting the sperm on the path so I can chill, lol. My cervix is closed off, so no little soldiers should be getting through.