It has been awhile since I have written a post so I thought I would give a mini update before my doctor's appointment this morning.
The proper name for what is going on with my uterus is called a septum uterus. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterine_septum) My doctor here on base seems to think that I will need to have surgery to shave down the septum in order for me to have enough room for a fetus/baby grow. I have been reading about the surgery online and found that women have been able to become pregnant very easily after they are given the green light to go ahead and start trying. Now I have not tried to google women who have level 3 endometriosis and septum uterus pregnancy success. I am pretty sure google will give me links that will not be helpful if I looked that up.
I have also been on birth control for the past month in hopes that it slows the endometriosis down. I would love if I end up having surgery for them to check out everything and see if the endometriosis came back yet or not. The ultimate goal would be that I could have this surgery by next month and then wait 3 months to heal. Then I would love to try to conceive naturally instead of doing the IUI right away. For some reason I have a feeling that the endometriosis and the septum uterus were the true reason why we could not become pregnant for all these yrs.
So today I am seeing a new doctor in Fresno. I was actually supposed to have my appointment last week but on Tuesday evening I received a phone call stating that the doctor would not be at the practice that day. So I was very frustrated with the news and was even more frustrated when I found out that today's appointment would not be with the doctor but with her nurse. I really hope I don't have to go to 3 more appointments in order to get a game plan started.
I had to fill out this new patient packet for the doctor's office and wow it was really long. I felt like they wanted the okay for the rights of my 1st born! I honestly had to keep calling my mom about family history that they needed to know. "Do you have at least two family members with such and such cancer?" "Have you had chicken pox? If so what was the date?" "What was the date of your first period?" Ahhh I don't know all these answers!!!
I will do a post later today or tomorrow about how my appointment went and what the game plan will be from here on out.
-Kate
The proper name for what is going on with my uterus is called a septum uterus. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterine_septum) My doctor here on base seems to think that I will need to have surgery to shave down the septum in order for me to have enough room for a fetus/baby grow. I have been reading about the surgery online and found that women have been able to become pregnant very easily after they are given the green light to go ahead and start trying. Now I have not tried to google women who have level 3 endometriosis and septum uterus pregnancy success. I am pretty sure google will give me links that will not be helpful if I looked that up.
I have also been on birth control for the past month in hopes that it slows the endometriosis down. I would love if I end up having surgery for them to check out everything and see if the endometriosis came back yet or not. The ultimate goal would be that I could have this surgery by next month and then wait 3 months to heal. Then I would love to try to conceive naturally instead of doing the IUI right away. For some reason I have a feeling that the endometriosis and the septum uterus were the true reason why we could not become pregnant for all these yrs.
So today I am seeing a new doctor in Fresno. I was actually supposed to have my appointment last week but on Tuesday evening I received a phone call stating that the doctor would not be at the practice that day. So I was very frustrated with the news and was even more frustrated when I found out that today's appointment would not be with the doctor but with her nurse. I really hope I don't have to go to 3 more appointments in order to get a game plan started.
I had to fill out this new patient packet for the doctor's office and wow it was really long. I felt like they wanted the okay for the rights of my 1st born! I honestly had to keep calling my mom about family history that they needed to know. "Do you have at least two family members with such and such cancer?" "Have you had chicken pox? If so what was the date?" "What was the date of your first period?" Ahhh I don't know all these answers!!!
I will do a post later today or tomorrow about how my appointment went and what the game plan will be from here on out.
-Kate
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