How long does it take to get pregnant after an ectopic pregnancy?

In order to minimize the harm to themselves, patients with ectopic pregnancy will choose to give up the child. This practice is likely to cause a mental blow to women. After the body of patients with ectopic pregnancy is fully recovered, they can still conceive again. However, in order to prevent the occurrence of ectopic pregnancy again, women are better to have a fallopian tube examination first, such as angiography, etc. So how long after an ectopic pregnancy can you get pregnant?

First, how long does it take to get pregnant after an ectopic pregnancy? In order to ensure the health of the mother, do not get pregnant immediately after an ectopic pregnancy. It will take at least half a year after an ectopic pregnancy for pregnancy to occur, because the uterus is damaged during the ectopic pregnancy surgery, and pregnancy at this time is very dangerous. Contraception should be used within this half year to allow the body to gradually recover. At the same time, examination should be carried out to determine whether the conditions for normal pregnancy are met. To this end, safe contraceptive measures must be taken. For the sake of your baby's and your health, you should wait at least half a year, but the specific time will depend on your body's recovery.

Second, in order to prevent ectopic pregnancy from happening again, it is recommended that female friends must undergo an X-ray hysterosalpingography examination before trying to conceive to confirm the specific patency of your fallopian tubes, and then adopt different treatment plans based on different examination results. Currently, the most accurate way to confirm whether the fallopian tubes are open and the degree of their patency is to do an angiography examination. X-ray hysterosalpingography is a method of examination in which contrast agent is injected into the uterine cavity and fallopian tubes through a catheter, and X-ray fluoroscopy and filming are performed using an X-ray diagnostic device. The appearance of the contrast agent in the fallopian tubes and pelvic cavity is used to determine whether the fallopian tubes are unobstructed, the site of obstruction, and the morphology of the uterine cavity.

After an ectopic pregnancy, you may worry that you will have another ectopic pregnancy. In fact, the likelihood of you having another ectopic pregnancy depends on what caused the first ectopic pregnancy and the treatment you took for the ectopic pregnancy. In general, your chances of having another ectopic pregnancy are about 10% to 15%, so your chances of having a normal pregnancy next time are still very high, about 85% to 90%. However, if your first ectopic pregnancy was caused by infection, damage to the fallopian tube after a tubal ligation, or exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES), an estrogen drug, the other fallopian tube is likely damaged as well, which reduces your chances of conceiving naturally and increases your chances of having another ectopic pregnancy.