Hey ladies,
Just thought I would update here. I see a few of us have spent most of our time on the LTTTC and ART boards now, but in case anyone googles this thread I want them to know the outcome of the procedures I had done. Since I am one who always googles and hates when people don't update at the end haha.
Had follow up Sonohysterogram last Friday. That was the WORST. My first SHG wasn't so bad, little bit of spotting, and more cramping than an HSG but overall nothing crazy. This one was insane. The first catheter was leaking, so I had saline just pouring out of me for a nice bit. Then the cramping was so terrible that I thought I might actually throw up. They were trying to determine if there was any scar tissue from the surgery, polyps that remained or grew back,or if it looked all cleaned up. Well after catheter one, they decided to try another one, that one also leaked but whatever, they got all the pictures they wanted.
I have a little bit of a residual septum, but that was to be expected. It is less than 1cm, and the reason my RE left it is because I have a small dip on the outside of my uterus as well, so they wanted to ensure they maintain the integrity of the uterus ' width so that if I am to get pregnant, I will not suffer a rupture. Anyways, less than 1cm is better than the 5 I had before dividing it in two. I met with the RE last night and he went over all of this. Now I just have a small dip at the top instead of a divided looking uterus. He showed me the pictures, as well as the pictures of polyps... those are crazy. I mean, its just a fluffy pink ball, but it looked HUGE and he had to remind me that the camera they use is so small so my 6mm polyps looked massive to myself.
All in all, everything is clear, no new polyps, no scar tissue so we were free to move forward. I asked a bunch of questions and he was great at answering them all. He then suggested moving forward with IUI. He said it was up to us to do IUI or IVF but he thought we were great candidates for IUI since DH has a below normal sperm count but not quite male factor IF yet. He said it is much more successful with cases like ours than with something like unexplained since getting more of his sperm up there would likely yield a greater benefit for us since someone with a regular count probably gets them up there already. However, I still feel that with the possible endo I dont know if IUI will really work, and I worry about doing 3 rounds and then having to still pay for IVF and adding that to our costs. We would also have to wait 2 months after IUI to start IVF. So right now we are trying to weigh our options. Our RE said that with 3 tries at IUI we would have a cumulative success rates around 38%, where IVF would likely be 60%. Trying to weigh what we should do right now. I am the youngest I will be right now, so that means lower doses of stims, likely better quantity and quality of eggs, and all of those factors to think about before putting IVF off for 6+ months. If we decide to go with IVF, I would call in my next cycle which would be around the 25th of May, and we would likely be offered a cycle right away they said. So that would be starting suppression during June since I am on an antagonist protocol because of my age and ovarian reserve, and then starting stims around end of June, possible early July retrieval.
ITS ALL HAPPENING FINALLLYYYYYYYYYY.... now just to make the right decision....
I think I'm going to O tomorrow, but maybe not until Tuesday. Haven't gotten a pos OPK yet! (although haven't tested yet today). Sorry that your cycle didn't work out this month timing wise. Did you manage to get some BDing in a little earlier?
I'm so sad.
