You can expect to be in our office 3 to 5 hours. You do not spend the night here. The procedure itself takes only 20 to 30 minutes, but we must allow for recovery time. Women have two small tubes called fallopian tubes which connect the ovaries to the uterus. Each month one ovary produces an egg which passes through the tube into the uterus.
Pregnancy results when a sperm reaches the egg in the tube.
The sterilization procedure seals off the tubes. The eggs are still produced in the ovaries, but they are blocked from meeting the sperm. Because the egg and sperm do not meet, there is no pregnancy. You are asleep under general anesthesia during the procedure and do not feel anything. The abdomen is inflated with carbon dioxide gas to aid the physician in finding the fallopian tubes.