Ok, lots of info from my appointment this morning. I went to see my gynaecologist to discuss surgery for endo, he specialises in endometriosis treatment and infertility.
* Surgery booked for 9 March. Dr will do a laparoscopy and remove all possible endo, and also do a hysteroscopy to view the inside of my uterus.
* He did an ultrasound today and confirmed that I definitely ovulated. A nice big corpus luteum is visible on my right ovary and my uterine lining is the perfect thickness (his word = "awesome"). Which still begs the question, why can't I get pregnant?
* Taking everything into account (hsg shows both tubes are fine, I ovulate every month, all hormones are normal, lining always looks good, DH's SA is great), dr says the 2 times where I got faint positives (even though one was after the 10 min mark) and then got AF, were most likely chem pregnancies. He wants me to do a beta next time it happens so that we can make sure. Due to the questions we have surrounding that, he ordered blood tests for blood clotting factors (6 vials!) to see if there's anything that might cause potential CPs or MCs.
* We discussed doing IVF in August. I inquired about June/July (winter school holidays in RSA) but dr said he doesn't do IVF during those 2 months because the success rates are lower due to the cold! Interesting!
* I don't have to be on the Pill next cycle if I don't want to since it's only 1 more cycle until surgery.
* Once the endometriosis had been successfully removed, my chances of falling pregnant will probably increase. There is still the question of egg quality but that can't be tested unless we do IVF.
I'm really scared (I have a PHOBIA of surgery and especially anaesthesia) but my dr is extremely intelligent and constantly goes out of his way to help me. He has tested SO many things in the time I've been there and seems to really care about fixing my problems and getting me pain-free and pregnant. I always feel he listens to me, takes me seriously and provides all the tests and procedures I insist on, and then some. So even though I always dread going to the dr, each appointment makes me feel slightly more positive about possibly having a chance to conceive one day.
Oh and he told me again not to put too much stock into temperature taking & worry about each single temp because so many factors influence a person's temperature. If the room temperature, blankets, time, person's health etc are not EXACTLY the same every morning then all those small variables could influence temp. Luckily my fertile signs are so obvious and OPKs work for me, I always know when I'm going to O!
How is everyone doing? What's news?? OMW I'm already going bonkers with this tww lol!
). I really HATE it though when innocently stalking the ltttc forum (as you do 
) and then someone posts a whole thread in that forum about how THEY are pregnant now and how fortunate they are etc etc. I know it's my own fault for reading it but c'mon, there are clear rules in each forum for posting /not posting bfp announcements (esp a whole thread dedicated to your own pregnancy announcement in the ltttc section? Selfish & inconsiderate imo).
