Well, you have abdominal muscles that lie across your abdomen.
Some doctors use a protractor (or maybe it is a retractor) to hold the muscles out of the way so that they can get to the tubes. I think the pain depends on the type of retractor used... and the length of time.
I had the clips, but they were at a narrow part of my tube, so after he took the clips off he did a bit of a roto-rooter job hollowing out my tubes. The procedure was about 3.75 hours. I think he may have had a teaching class in there too ,who knows, lol.
Yeah, it hurt alot for me. More than I expected because some women on here had there reversal and felt great within a few days. So I was unpleasantly surprised at my level of pain and questioned other women wondering what I had had done differently. But because it was my abdominal wall that ached, (reminded me somewhat of my first c-section) I summed it up to the retractor being used and the length of time it was in place clamped on the muscles, perhaps it was a bit too long and really hurt some nerves.
Either way, regardless of the pain, I am happy I did it. I am now pregnant with Tubal REversal baby #2
With ANY major surgical procedure, there are risks.
And there is going to be some level of pain regardless of who does it or how.
Most tubal reversal websites have the procedure listed so that you can read for more information.

LmFinnegen and Lmwilliams on here are the ones I beleive who had the procedure done by Rosendale.
Perhaps start a new thread asking who has had a tubal reversal done by that dr and you will get a response quicker

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