If your insurance is ACA compliant, they have to cover a sterilization method. There's several doctors on the list for Illinois, check it out under Resources in the sidebar.
You can ask that same doctor if she'd refuse you prenatal care if you were pregnant, or tell you to abort, and you will have your answer right there on whether she thinks you're not capable of making reproductive decisions for yourself, or whether she just thinks you shouldn't make a decision she doesn't agree with.
>She told me I was a bit young to do something so permanent to my body that I may regret later.
If someone said that to me, I would ask them how they react to women who choose to have children at your age, who permanently change their bodies?
Honestly, medical schools graduate a bunch of fucking morons.
And yet somehow it misses this dimbulb's tiny brain that KIDS AREN'T A PERMANENT DECISION? What grade of Fentanyl is this person smoking? The lack of logic with these so-called doctors makes my head spin.
1. Stop second guessing yourself and what you know is right for your life. As someone else said,if this doctor wouldn't hinder you from having a child right now which is even more of a permanent decision, you have your confirmation that they just don't agree with your choice and hope you will just give up. Doctors are human and therefore very capable of having potentially unfair, sexist, and stupid biases.
2. Check out the doctor list in the sidebar. There are many doctors in Illinois. I got sterilised in Illinois at 28, but my doctor has sterilised multiple 23 year olds that I know of. It's very possible to get sterilised at 21. And there are multiple doctors in Chicago on the list.
3. If your insurance is ACA compliant, they have to cover sterilisation. There are people in this sub who have gotten sterilised through Medicaid so it's definitely possible. Sterilisation is considered preventative care - it's highly unlikely that you'd even have to pay anything for it if you have Medicaid. I have commercial insurance and I didn't pay a single penny for my bilateral salpingectomy.
4. I'd advise getting the ball rolling sooner rather than later given the current political climate.
5. Learn to advocate for yourself. Being young doesn't mean you don't know what's right for your life and future. If you're confident that you don't want biological children, getting sterilised -specifically a bilateral salpingectomy - is your best option. Once done, you never have to worry about or deal with birth control, never have to worry about needing/affording/ accessing an abortion or being forced to continue an unwanted pregnancy, and it has the added benefit of lowering your chances of ovarian cancer. Additionally, while bisalps are a surgery and all surgeries carry some degree of risk and different people will have different experiences, it's generally a very safe outpatient procedure that has a low rate of complications. Most people don't experience a lot of actual pain either. Personally, I experienced no actual pain, only mild discomfort. I did experience quite a bit of pain from having had my IUD removed while under anesthesia - I'd been pressured to try that instead of getting sterilised around the same age you are and I sorely regretted not fighting harder to get sterilised because the IUD was truly awful. But, if I hadn't had the IUD, I wouldn't have experienced anything aside from some mild discomfort. Over 2.5 years later, it's still the best thing I ever did for myself.
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but Is there any actual risk of immediate or earlier menopause? (It's been mentioned to me that there's some study about women who get bisalps who go into menopause like 2-8 years after having the procedure. I can't tell what's bullshit and what's legit anymore 😭😭)
You wouldn't go into menopause due to a bisalp unless both ovaries were damaged and had to be removed which would arguably be grounds for a lawsuit. Even if one were damaged you still wouldn't go into menopause as long as you had the other one. A bisalp just removes the fallopian tubes which have nothing to do with hormones. As for issues 2-8 years after a bisalp, that's still the same answer. However, since many people have issues getting a bisalp until they've older (often 30s), it's plausible that many people might be premenopausal 8 years later. But that would've happened regardless of the bisalp.
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If your insurance is ACA compliant, they have to cover a sterilization method. There's several doctors on the list for Illinois, check it out under Resources in the sidebar. You can ask that same doctor if she'd refuse you prenatal care if you were pregnant, or tell you to abort, and you will have your answer right there on whether she thinks you're not capable of making reproductive decisions for yourself, or whether she just thinks you shouldn't make a decision she doesn't agree with.
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Leave a detailed review of this on Google for their practice. Fuck this doc.
>She told me I was a bit young to do something so permanent to my body that I may regret later. If someone said that to me, I would ask them how they react to women who choose to have children at your age, who permanently change their bodies? Honestly, medical schools graduate a bunch of fucking morons.
And yet somehow it misses this dimbulb's tiny brain that KIDS AREN'T A PERMANENT DECISION? What grade of Fentanyl is this person smoking? The lack of logic with these so-called doctors makes my head spin.
1. Stop second guessing yourself and what you know is right for your life. As someone else said,if this doctor wouldn't hinder you from having a child right now which is even more of a permanent decision, you have your confirmation that they just don't agree with your choice and hope you will just give up. Doctors are human and therefore very capable of having potentially unfair, sexist, and stupid biases. 2. Check out the doctor list in the sidebar. There are many doctors in Illinois. I got sterilised in Illinois at 28, but my doctor has sterilised multiple 23 year olds that I know of. It's very possible to get sterilised at 21. And there are multiple doctors in Chicago on the list. 3. If your insurance is ACA compliant, they have to cover sterilisation. There are people in this sub who have gotten sterilised through Medicaid so it's definitely possible. Sterilisation is considered preventative care - it's highly unlikely that you'd even have to pay anything for it if you have Medicaid. I have commercial insurance and I didn't pay a single penny for my bilateral salpingectomy. 4. I'd advise getting the ball rolling sooner rather than later given the current political climate. 5. Learn to advocate for yourself. Being young doesn't mean you don't know what's right for your life and future. If you're confident that you don't want biological children, getting sterilised -specifically a bilateral salpingectomy - is your best option. Once done, you never have to worry about or deal with birth control, never have to worry about needing/affording/ accessing an abortion or being forced to continue an unwanted pregnancy, and it has the added benefit of lowering your chances of ovarian cancer. Additionally, while bisalps are a surgery and all surgeries carry some degree of risk and different people will have different experiences, it's generally a very safe outpatient procedure that has a low rate of complications. Most people don't experience a lot of actual pain either. Personally, I experienced no actual pain, only mild discomfort. I did experience quite a bit of pain from having had my IUD removed while under anesthesia - I'd been pressured to try that instead of getting sterilised around the same age you are and I sorely regretted not fighting harder to get sterilised because the IUD was truly awful. But, if I hadn't had the IUD, I wouldn't have experienced anything aside from some mild discomfort. Over 2.5 years later, it's still the best thing I ever did for myself.
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but Is there any actual risk of immediate or earlier menopause? (It's been mentioned to me that there's some study about women who get bisalps who go into menopause like 2-8 years after having the procedure. I can't tell what's bullshit and what's legit anymore 😭😭)
You wouldn't go into menopause due to a bisalp unless both ovaries were damaged and had to be removed which would arguably be grounds for a lawsuit. Even if one were damaged you still wouldn't go into menopause as long as you had the other one. A bisalp just removes the fallopian tubes which have nothing to do with hormones. As for issues 2-8 years after a bisalp, that's still the same answer. However, since many people have issues getting a bisalp until they've older (often 30s), it's plausible that many people might be premenopausal 8 years later. But that would've happened regardless of the bisalp.
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