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[...] your doctor's office and hospital or surgical facility will bill your insurance company. It will be billed under a sterilization diagnosis code; this is unavoidable. It will also have the procedure code (CPT). At this point, if your parent checks the insurer's website or searches the codes from the EOB, they will be able to find out that you had a sterilization procedure. This is why I recommend...

[...] sterilization by removing/occluding/blocking/cutting the tubes won’t impact the ovaries, and thus won’t impact hormone levels. The ovaries will remain intact. They have their own blood supply, so blood flow to the ovaries won’t be interrupted...

Can I still get a bilateral salpingectomy if I've already had a tubal ligation?

The landmark CREST studies found that, among women aged 30 or younger at the time of sterilization, regret "was lowest among women who had no previous births" at 6.3%. Among women aged 30 or younger, nulliparous women are less likely to regret sterilization than those who have had children.

Complications are very rare, but they can occur. It is important to weigh the risks of sterilization surgery against the risks of long-term hormonal birth control use...

Letters, binders and other extensive prep resources... What questions will my doctor ask me?... How should I prepare?...

Under the ACA (US), you can likely get sterilized for free! The ACA's contraceptive coverage mandate requires compliant private health insurance plans to cover at least one tubal sterilization procedure at 100% of cost, i.e. none of the cost is the patient's responsibility and the procedure is free to the patient...

Sterilization surgery & recovery: what should I expect? What is the pain level? How should I prepare for surgery day and aftercare? What is the recovery time like? Check out our article showcasing detailed sterilization experiences/accounts and even surgical photos!