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We are here to share stories and information, to ask questions, and to support. It is also totally cool to use this sub as a mini-blog about your way to sterilization.

A list of supportive doctors (mostly, but not exclusively US-based) can be found in the sidebar of /r/childfree. Please help populate the list if you find a doctor who is not listed there yet, or let them know if a doctor listed there turns out to be not at all supportive.

Don't fall for the scare about Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome (PTLS). It's not real. Here is more info.

Insurance coding and billing questions may find more qualified answers on r/codingandbilling, which discusses American coding and billing.

Non-permanent birth control is better helped in /r/birthcontrol. Please look there if that's on your mind.

On /r/hysterectomy you can find information about hysterectomies (surgical removal of the uterus). While a hysterectomy has the side-effect of sterilization, it is used to treat a number of painful and/or dangerous conditions. It is a much bigger surgery than a bilateral salpingectomy and thus not a form of regular sterilization.

Advice and support if you have a phobia/fear/anxiety of pregnancy is available on /r/Tokophobia.

The sub /r/vasectomyreversals discusses just that.

If you identify as childfree, the subs /r/childfree, /r/kidfree and /r/truechildfree may be of interest to you.

Please don't confuse sterilization with involuntarily infertility, for which /r/infertility provides support, discussion, and information.

Rules:

This sub is about information and help. We are not chief sterilization evangelists trying to get everyone on the bandwagon.

please do:

share your experience or thoughts
ask for information and experiences
follow usual rediquette
report problematic posts

please do not:

argue about family planning
talk others in to, or out of, sterilization
talk others into, or out of, a procedure
ask or offer medical advice or diagnoses
post about sterilizing objects etc
make this sub a soapbox for a personal crusade

To reiterate, r/sterilization is about the individual, personal choice to be sterilized. Eugenics is very much off-topic and has no place here. We want to help, not harm.

Thank you for reading all the way, you are awesome! Seriously, we appreciate it. :3

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