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I know it has been a while since my last post. Partly because I didn't have much to report, up until a few days ago.....
This last week has been a bit of a whirlwind for us with doctor-related activity. Last Thursday we went to see another specialist for a second opinion and also to see if their office seemed to provide a more positive environment. We ended up meeting with the Dr for about 2 hours, reviewing treatment options and talking about future treatment. There wasn't too much brand new news, which I guess is a good thing, other than that he did an ultrasound and found what he thought was tissue retained from my last D&C. And suggested....more surgery. That hit me kind of hard, because it was pretty unexpected. And I just hate the idea of doing more surgery that results in more surgery and so on. Feels like an endless loop sometimes.
Needless to say, the next 3 days were a flurry of phone calls between new doc and old doc to figure out what we were going to do. I ended up with surgery scheduled for today (Wednesday) and then ended up cancelling it yesterday after old doc called me on Monday and we talked for quite a while about risks of surgery (scarring, etc) and what our other options were. All complicated by the fact that I was out of town Monday- Tuesday and Jacob and I are leaving the country Friday for vacation. No big deal :)
Here's where we are now:
- trying to use misoprostol to see if any retained tissue will come out, and also going to get another HCG level to see if it is still coming down (last one was 230, high for 5 weeks post D&C)
- regardless of what happens, we will start the stim process for IVF once we are back from vacation. Even if the misoprostol doesn't work, we will have time to sort that side of things out separate from doing egg retreival. We are basically just really antsy to get the show on the road at this point.
- worst case, I end up still having to have a hysteroscopy in March. (hopefully not, but we'll see)
Whew. In the meantime we are trying to schedule time to visit family and friends, go to weddings this spring and summer, and everything else.....good problems to have for sure, but it gives me a good deal of anxiety to know we have all of these plans and somewhere along the way I will be a crazy hormonal mess for a few weeks.
That's all for now-
