Jackdoll, sorry to hear it! I hope you find peace in whatever decision you end up making. As much as I would like for my son to have a sibling, I know I wouldn't have it in me to do the IVF process again. I'm hoping this FET cycle, if it doesn't work, will at least be more tolerable so I will be willing to try it again.
Flutterby, congratulations!! That's great. And Hopeful Cat, that sounds really promising. Keep us posted.
I'm starting estradiol tonight. Not terribly excited to make my grand return to intramuscular injections, but at least it's a small amount of liquid. Once the PIO starts, I'll be longing for the days of just estradiol!
The only other news on my front is that at my ultrasound yesterday, my doctor suggested that I might have some endometriosis. He's never been able to see it, but I've always had a lot of pelvic pain issues (which were always blamed on muscle spasms, but the pain is there even after getting the muscles under control with physical therapy). Anyway, he was doing the ultrasound yesterday and I was totally relaxed and feeling fine with the prodding on the right side, and then when he changed the angle to the left side I was suddenly in a huge amount of pain even though my muscles were relaxed. And we know from the HSG that my left tube is blocked, so that would make sense. He didn't think it would serve my current purposes to go through a laparoscopy to look further, but it's something to think about for the future. In the short term, I'm mostly worried about surviving the pain of the transfer. My doctor is really patient and willing to use his smallest speculum with me, but I was in an unreasonable amount of pain at my trial transfer, between the maybe-endometriosis-related pain of the speculum and the fact that he has to clamp my cervix to get anything through it. I will be taking 3 valium that morning.
Fern, I see endometriosis in your signature. Have you found any helpful treatment for it?
Flutterby, congratulations!! That's great. And Hopeful Cat, that sounds really promising. Keep us posted.
I'm starting estradiol tonight. Not terribly excited to make my grand return to intramuscular injections, but at least it's a small amount of liquid. Once the PIO starts, I'll be longing for the days of just estradiol!
The only other news on my front is that at my ultrasound yesterday, my doctor suggested that I might have some endometriosis. He's never been able to see it, but I've always had a lot of pelvic pain issues (which were always blamed on muscle spasms, but the pain is there even after getting the muscles under control with physical therapy). Anyway, he was doing the ultrasound yesterday and I was totally relaxed and feeling fine with the prodding on the right side, and then when he changed the angle to the left side I was suddenly in a huge amount of pain even though my muscles were relaxed. And we know from the HSG that my left tube is blocked, so that would make sense. He didn't think it would serve my current purposes to go through a laparoscopy to look further, but it's something to think about for the future. In the short term, I'm mostly worried about surviving the pain of the transfer. My doctor is really patient and willing to use his smallest speculum with me, but I was in an unreasonable amount of pain at my trial transfer, between the maybe-endometriosis-related pain of the speculum and the fact that he has to clamp my cervix to get anything through it. I will be taking 3 valium that morning.
Fern, I see endometriosis in your signature. Have you found any helpful treatment for it?
