Hello, to who ever may still be lurking here. (Sad to see the lack of posts since I last logged in.)
Where to start...
Well, I've been getting fertility testing done. It's been a stressful, scary path, that takes my mind to dark places on my worst days. But with the support of my OBGYN, I'm feeling a bit more confident, even with all that is holding me and my husband back.
So, here are some of the facts we've gathered since my June 15th ectopic pregnancy.
Me: Stage one Endomitriosis, and slightly under active thyroid.
Him: SA; Everything is "exceptional" except the count, which is 12.5 million. So his sperm is healthy, and mobile, with few being abnormal, but there isn't as much as one would hope to see.
My OBGYN didn't outright say that my husband's lower end count is the issue behind our fertility problems, but thinks it is a factor.
I was supposed to have my HSG yesterday, but the radiologist who was performing the procedure couldn't get the cath past my cervix and into my uterus. It was painful to sit there on the x-ray table with no sterups, with my hips thrust up in the air by some weird wedged pillow, and him poking my cervix with this long needle looking thing that honestly scared the hell out of me. Bless this man's heart, he tried to do it without causing me too much pain but it was just not going to go in, and he didn't want to see me suffering anymore, so he canceled it.
My OBGYN called me 4 hours later and said that sometimes radiologists just can't do it as well as someone who works with women every day. So, she has rescheduled me around the time of my ovulation, and has put in a prescription of a drug that will soften my cervix, so that next cycle, the HSG test will hopefully be done with results.
I'm nervous about what they will find when they do it. A part of me wonders if my stage one endo isn't just outside my uterus, but inside as well, and in my tubes, causing blockages.
Whatever may come, I'm going to try to keep my head up. I was one of the first ones on this topic, and if I have to, I'll be the last one out. But I'm getting my baby!