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▄▀▄ 🄻🄾🄲🄰🄻 🄹🄾🄺🄴 ▀▄▀ :
I hope bilateral salpingectomy will be fully covered in the future
2026-08-22 10:46:35
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SallyStRose :
I don’t like how it’s spoken about as “for those who don’t want MORE children”. How about we just let people decide for themselves, whether they have children or not.
2026-08-08 16:42:01
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Edao :
Great discovery! But not covered by insurance or offered at a significant reduced rate doesn't help 😮💨
2026-08-08 16:09:52
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mywanderingwhimsy :
Careful, MAGA will make this procedure illegal
2026-08-08 23:36:15
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KG🤍 :
great idea, horrible timing. in this political environment no doctor is going to do that sadly. hell even before you needed to damn near sign your name in blood to get a hysterectomy
2026-08-08 18:12:23
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t :
I’m getting my tubes removed at 26 (no children) and my doctor actually told me that it would lower my ovarian cancer risk which was welcomed news to me!
2026-08-09 04:32:55
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User777 :
This makes me sick - why does she keep saying they need to have children? If this was for men, they’d offer it.
2026-08-08 22:04:09
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V :
As someone who's grandmother had ovarian cancer, this gives me hope. If I have to go into debt by removing my fallopian tubes, then so be it. 🤷🏾♀️I haven't given birth and I'm in perimenopause.
2026-08-08 16:38:24
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Solitude :
I wish they’d spoken about this when I had my gallbladder removed in 2016.
2026-08-08 19:15:18
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appleuser29849501 :
Will insurance pay for this prevention if I ask for it.
2026-08-09 14:10:28
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RedHead05 :
it should be standard that when a woman decides she doesn’t want kids anymore whether she has had 8 or she has had 0 she should get them removed and insurance should cover it.
2026-08-08 23:05:24
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Holly :
I had my tubes removed during my last child’s delivery. I did it for sterilization but heck yeah, double benefit. 👍
2026-08-09 13:55:05
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Bbbees :
Had mine removed this year. It was 100% covered by insurance, didn’t even have to pay the deductible bc it’s considered “birth control” (for now!) so if you’re considering it, HIGHLY recommend doing it soon. Easy procedure, have had periods more painful and went to a wedding 3 days later. 6 mo later and my “scars” look like cute freckles.
2026-08-08 21:36:20
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nayeliferrari20 :
My ovarian tumor was bigger than a grapefruit when it was detected. Aggressive cancer, aggressive treatment as well. I had no symptoms at all!! 😔
2026-08-09 03:23:52
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Lindsay Snook :
I will forever be grateful to my amazing OBGYN who performed my salpingectomy. Best medical decision I have made for myself to date.
2026-08-08 16:18:05
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…. :
I got my tubal removal last year while I got labiaplaty at 22 after my one and done kiddo 🥰 (I asked for both of these procedures)
2026-08-08 20:00:33
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Hertimenow328 :
My GYN told me about this so she told me if I’m willing, she’d like to take the fallopian tubes when she took my uterus out. We left my ovaries. I was 49 when I had it done 3 years ago. So happy agreed.
2026-08-08 22:20:24
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justanxious :
I had my bisalp when I was 22 years old, for the purpose of sterilization. To this day, it's the most beneficial medical decision I have made for myself. Highly recommend.
2026-08-09 03:52:25
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Katrina Bussotti :
Best choice I ever made was my bilateral salpingectomy. I did it as a permanent birth control. Zero regrets and it was 💯 covered by my insurance because I told them it was for birth control.
2026-08-09 16:35:18
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DesireOshun :
I wish there was better testing for ovarian cancer like we have for cervical cancer.
2026-08-09 02:42:58
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S. :
I had this done, I had a cyst the size of an apple, miro-invasion of cancer it was attached to my left tube, I told the Dr to take anything else out that could be problematic. so he did. no more cancer detected
2026-08-09 04:18:34
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Huckynori Studios :
I love pbs
2026-08-08 17:32:37
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Haydn // Fox & Fleece :
Bilateral salpingectomy is covered under ACA-compliant health plans at NO COST if billed appropriately by the provider for sterilization purposes (it gets murky when combined with other procedures, which is what this video emphasizes). Please research and save information you find on r/childfree and r/sterilization. If you don’t want kids and have fallopian tubes, this is something you’d want to do sooner than later. Bonus: if you want kids later you can technically still do so via IVF.
2026-08-10 04:39:48
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Kitzelo :
Had my tubes totally removed two years ago. I was 22 at the time of my consultation, no kids, no spouse, and my doctor agreed to complete it. Insurance covered the full cost. In the USA most insurance WILL cover elective bilateral salpingectomy as a permanent birth control. unless you have an insurance plan that was grandfathered in after the aca took effect you can likely get it covered. There's a reddit for sterilization that has SO many people who have posted how to go about insurance issues. If you want it done, there's lists of doctors across the country who will preform a removal of the tubes. Definitely worth looking into.
2026-08-09 15:33:58
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YupikTlingit🦅WarriorWoman :
Because they don't care about us
2026-08-08 18:33:43
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