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Q: Young Wife Needs Advice, Please Reply-no Medical Insurance!
asked by: Shannonwilly on January 16th, 2005
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Hello everyone, my name is shannon. I am a 19 (20 in april) year old wife. My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for a year now with, unfortunately, no luck. When I was 17 I had an abortion at 15 1/2 weeks. About a year after the abortion I started to get excrutiatingly painful cramps. I saw a gyn and decided that I may have endometriosis so he did a laporoscopy. After the surgery, he told me that I did not have endometriosis, but that I had sists on my ovaries, high risk hpv and a large amount of scarring/scar tissue all over my reproductive organs. He couldn't tell me why I had so much scarring as he said he had never seen anything like that before. He told me that it wasn't because of the abortion and that I would be just fine. He prescribed me vicodin, celebrex, and bextra. Concerned, my husband and I decided to try having a child. No luck. I continued to see my gyn and he wasnt very much help. He had no answers as to why I am not getting pregnant, and said that it just takes time and I will eventually conceive. There were no special tests or anything! I am unsure of what this scarring/scar tissue is from and if it can cause infertility. I don't have med insurance and there was only one other gyn in my city and he wouldn't see me. I still get painful cramps but not as much now, but still not pregnant. Any suggestions or advice? Please reply and let me know asap!
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Tiffany0512
replied on January 16th, 2005
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Re: Young Wife Needs Advice, Please Reply-no Medical Insuran
shannonwilly wrote:
hello everyone, my name is shannon. I am a 19 (20 in april) year old wife. My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for a year now with, unfortunately, no luck. When I was 17 I had an abortion at 15 1/2 weeks. About a year after the abortion I started to get excrutiatingly painful cramps. I saw a gyn and decided that I may have endometriosis so he did a laporoscopy. After the surgery, he told me that I did not have endometriosis, but that I had sists on my ovaries, high risk hpv and a large amount of scarring/scar tissue all over my reproductive organs. He couldn't tell me why I had so much scarring as he said he had never seen anything like that before. He told me that it wasn't because of the abortion and that I would be just fine. He prescribed me vicodin, celebrex, and bextra. Concerned, my husband and I decided to try having a child. No luck. I continued to see my gyn and he wasnt very much help. He had no answers as to why I am not getting pregnant, and said that it just takes time and I will eventually conceive. There were no special tests or anything! I am unsure of what this scarring/scar tissue is from and if it can cause infertility. I don't have med insurance and there was only one other gyn in my city and he wouldn't see me. I still get painful cramps but not as much now, but still not pregnant. Any suggestions or advice? Please reply and let me know asap!


hi there, my name is tiffany and I am 20 years old. Me and my husband got married in august and also conceived in august, so currently we are 24 weeks pregnant. Previously, to getting pregnant, we had been trying for several months, when I got put into the hospital, for what they thought was a tubal pregnancy. When they soon found out it was a sist growing on my overies. Wow was that pain. We were really worried about not being able to get pregnant afterwards. I think the reason we had a harder time getting pregnant is because everytime we made love, all we would be thinking about was trying to conceive. When what we should have been thinking about was the fact that we were lucky enough to have each other, becasue it takes some people years to find their soul mate. So we slowly stopped thinking about it, and before we knew it we were pregnant.
I say keep trying but try not to think about it soo much. Good luck :)

tiffany
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medicwife
replied on May 17th, 2005
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Hi sweetie! :d I cannot think what would have caused such scarring, unless your abortion was not done very well.(unless abuse has taken place, its not normal) what did they do about the cysts? Remove them? I woudl be concerned you are growing new cysts if I had such cramps. Have you ever had an std?
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WENDYSUEJONES
replied on May 20th, 2005
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Maybe you have `polycystic ovary syndrome`
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carolscreation
replied on July 11th, 2005
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Shannon,
wow! Your problem sounds a little familiar. I had almost the same problems. I have never had an abortion, but the scar tissue doesn't have to come from that. A lot of scar tissue may come from a sexually transmitted disease you never knew you had. I know what your thinking! I thought the same thing! "i don't sleep around!", neither did i, but I never knew I had it, and it has made me infertile. My ovaries are twice as big as they are supposed to be, and I have had two surgeries to unblock one tube, but it keeps blocking back up. My husband and I have done ivf 5 times and we've never been able to conceive. I found that I don't produce enough eggs. Even after being all pumped up on all those hormones, that are supposed to make you make thousands of eggs, the most I ever made was 10 and of those usually 3 or 4 would be viable. You and your husband both need to be checked for infertility problems, if it comes back that you both are fertile, then you will know that it's a matter of just time. It may be that you just may need a little "boost" from clomid. Either way, you both need to be checked, do it for your peace of mind, other wise you'll drive yourself crazy! I wish you all the good luck in the world!! I truly mean that sincerely
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