Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Appointment Update

So yesterday was our follow up appointment with our dr. A lot of people are asking me about it, so I thought I would just post some of it as an update. First off, my doctor thinks that I have endometriosis. The cyst on my right ovary isnt going away, and he said when he was doing the retrieval and got to look at it, it had stuff in it that a normal cyst would not have. He said cysts also change sizes, and whatever I have is staying the same size. The only way to diagnose endometriosis is to do surgery, but he said there is no point to do that, he is just going to treat me as if I do have it. Next he went over our eggs, he told us that he has never seen embryos frozen on day 7, which is when ours were frozen. Most embryos are frozen on day 5, but ours developed really slow for some reason. He said there is not a lot of research done on why some embryos develop slowly and that there could be a problem, or there could not be one he doesnt know. He did say that embryos that he has frozen on day 6 have developed healthy babies, it doesnt take away the chance completely of getting pregnant, so I guess we just wait and see what day 7 embryos do. We do have a few that were frozen on day 6. He also talked about my levels, how they were really high and then really low. He said he doesnt know why I am not responding to the estrogen pills, but at least we know for next time that I do not respond to them. My level after the transfer went to 69 and it is supposed to stay over 200, so that could have messed up the cycle. So we asked when we can try again with our frozen embryos, and he said that he is going to put me on birth control for two months to get rid of the endometriosis before the next transfer. He said if we do 2 more transfers, we have a 3/4 change of getting pregnant. We are going to try again for sure one more time, it will probably be at the end of October or beginning of November. Im obviously having a really hard time with all of this, but I dont want to go into all of my feelings at the moment, so maybe in a few weeks ill be ready to write about them. Just wanted to update everyone praying for us about what is going on.
 

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