Healthy Couple - 17 Months of Trying - No Pregnancy Posted: 12-04-06 19:50pm
Hello friends,
we've been trying to conceive for about 17
months without success. Here is a very
brief overview. If anyone can shed some
light or has had a similar experience to
what we've gone through - please help us
by offering suggestions!
My husband and I are 33 and in good
health.
We tried for about 6 months, then my
husband had his sperm checked. It was
completely normal.
I had a "day 3" blood test around the same
time which was completely normal. We
tried for a few more months.
I had three months of clomid from months 9
to 12.
After 12 months, I had an hsg, which
showed a possibility of scar tissue.
Then I had a saline test which confirmed
that.
My doctor recommended a hysteroscopy and a
laproscopy - basically one removed the
scar tissue. The laproscopy uncovered
endometriosis, which my doctor described
as light, and said he was able to remove
"most" of it.
He mentioned that it's possible sperm is
unable to do it's job because
endometriosis may cause a sort of reaction
with it. He said there was a drug that
must be taken for about 5 months to fully
repress any lingering endometriosis. But
there is no telling if it would really
help any - and the fact that the procedure
was a "success" really sort of meant that
we were back to square one - healthy and
ready to conceive again. That coupled
with more clomid, we thought, would put
back in business.
Also, an iui would bypass all this.
As of today, (now 17 tries), i've been on
clomid again for 3 months. And again, no
success. I've also taken prometrium from
2 days after ovulation for the past two
months.
Finally, I just had an ultrasound and the
doc said the follicle was there and ok.
So at this point, I feel as though we
should be conceiving. But since we
haven't, questions linger.
We're facing iui, which would bypass any
endometriosis, and tell us if that was the
issue. If that doesn't work - then I
suppose we'll have to consider more
significant issues.
But we still have hopes that we'll
conceive "unassisted". I suppose that
since I had the laproscopy to remove
"most" of the endometriosis and have a
"clean slate", we've really only tried
about 4 times since then.
So I don't know whether to just keep
trying, or move right to iui without
delay.
I feel as if i've had a few issues here,
but nothing too uncommon. Has anyone
else had the same issues and conceived on
their own? Or are you still trying?
Are there any other tests any of you have
had that I should ask for?
Thanks, and we hope to hear from you!
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bekaM
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Ca
Posted: 03-14-07 11:46am
Hi
I feel your pain. Me and my fiance are
also both healthy and fairly young. I am
20 and he is 35.
I too have endometriosis (light) and I
have scaring on my cervix which I had a
coloscopy to ensure it was not cancer. It
came back negitive. Yay!
We have only been trying 3 months. I got
pregnant fairly quickly with my son 2
years ago. My ex husband and I tried for a
total of 6 months. In those six months I
had 2 misscarriages, and then accidently
got pregnant with my son during recovery
of my second mc. I guess 3 is a charm?
This time around Im not getting pregnant
at all and its like, am I infertile now?
Atlest before I knew I was not infertile.
Although I would have traded being
infertile for my mc's.
My sugestion would be, since you have been
trying 17 times now why not seriously
consider iui and set a date to do it.
like, ok on try 19 if I dont get pregnant
lets try iui on try 20 and so on...
I really really wish you luck. Try to
relax and think of yourself as being a
fertile, sex pistol. Thats what Im trying
lol, ill let ya know if it works.
My issues are not diffrent from before
when I ttc and I did conceive. Now its
seeming to prove harder.
Lots and lots and lots of baby dust!!!!!!
Warm well wishes and all that good stuff.
