I know this board concerns itself with complications and trouble following tubal procedures so I will be out of the norm here, but I had a tubal done several months ago without issue. My mother had one done when she was about my age - some 20 years ago - and never mentioned any problems with it either.
My own experience is thus: at 35, I'd come to the end of the road with contraceptives. I get every side effect in the book when taking the pill - bleedthroughs, weight gain, mood swings, virtually nonexistent sex drive, high blood pressure, headaches and I even started having weird migraine-ish symptoms without headaches that made me worry that I was starting to have tiny blood clots in very scary places. Another odd side effect I get from the pill is that my eyes are so dry that I have trouble wearing contacts more than once or twice a week, a few hours at a time. When I'm not taking the pill, I have none of these problems (except of course the usual couple of pounds coming and going at period time). At 5'7'' and 125 pounds, a lifelong nonsmoker fit enough to finish a marathon and with a family history of low blood pressure, the high blood pressure problems (always a problem, but once so bad that I was refused a birth control prescription renewal) really concerned me. So I've spent most of my life suffering when having to use the pill and finding relief the instant I would be able to quit.
About 15 years ago, I had an accidental pregnancy and before I'd even had a positive pregnancy test, I had so flipped out that I dropped out of school, quit my job and left home. I thought I was losing my mind - I had no idea why I was acting so bizarrely. I was already having suicidal thoughts before I was far enough along for an abortion. Within hours of the abortion, I felt perfectly normal. I never had depression or anything like it at any other time in my life. I was a perfect A student at the time this happened.
My husband, who's several years older, and I decided that we were not going to have children. One of the deciding factors was my previous history. I have no idea why I freaked out before and couldn't promise that it wouldn't happen again if we tried to have a baby. So I decided that I had no business having children and opted for a surgical sterilization myself.
I was expecting to resume my usual non-pill behavior after the tubal (since obviously I was quitting using hormonal birth control again) but in fact, in the months since, it's been better. I used to have five-day periods when not taking the pill (two-day periods with the pill, three-day, and heavier, ones with the patch) and ever since, I've had periods lighter than patch periods and comparable to pill periods, lasting hardly two days. Cramps are slightly worse in the first few hours but treatable with a few ibuprofen. Not a single headache or aura since, blood pressure back to normal and I feel like my usual self. My periods always were calendar-precise, even from the first time when I was 13, and they still are: exactly 28 days apart to the hour.
I have heard that problems can arise later, but after several months, I have had no untoward effects from my tubal. However, every woman is different and I obviously had extreme difficulties with hormones and hormonal birth control.
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