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I have endometriosis. Struggled to conceive for four years. Been on the nhs waiting list since 2019, failed Clomid and letrozole treatments that made my endometriosis worse. I have cysts on both ovaries. Been on menopause injections to shrink them. They have shrunk but one is still big. Need to go back on menopause injections to shrink them more. Due surgery within 6 months, may need other specialists in there due endo on my bowel. I’m only 28. Im fed up, tired and exhausted. I don’t think anyone understands what i am going through. Everyone around me is having children. Their second or third child while i am still waiting to have my first. I feel broken every day. Because my illness is invisible no one takes it seriously. People expect me to do the most as I am the one who has the ‘free time’ as I am childless. Please give me your miracle stories. I am in desperate need.

My husband has about 6 sperm that are decent, I have endo and we had IVF for baby number 1. Somehow got pregnant with baby number 2 this year (although I did miscarry at 11 weeks)

I’m sorry to hear you’re going through this, infertility is soul destroying.

We have a very positive story and I have endometriosis.

We had unexplained infertility at first. Eventually did IVF and the third fresh cycle of ICSI worked. We had our little boy three years ago.

We started trying again last year, after 6 months went to start IVF again. They found a big 6cm+ mass of endometriosis in my ovary and I had to have surgery to remove it. The surgeon said this will improve your chances and I didn’t believe him. We had a round of IVF a few months later and it failed. We took a break and were about to start IVF again when my period didn’t turn up. For the first time in my life I was pregnant through sex. I’m now 20 weeks and all going well so far.

Fingers crossed for you - there is plenty of hope to be had. When we first started trying I was 32 - you definitely have time on your side xx

My story is long, but I’ll try and be concise!

Diagnosed with severe endo that had blocked both tubes. Ist round of IVF we didn’t get any viable embryos. That was my lowest point, I think. All we wanted was a chance and we didn’t even get that.
2nd round with a different protocol we got 5 embryos. Used 2, froze 3. Got a BFN.
3rd round (fresh cycle) got 2 embryos. Used them both. Got a BFP!!
Difficult pregnancy, lots of bleeding. DD born 4 weeks early, crash c-section, SCBU for a week….
Used our frozen embryos when she was two. BFN.
She is 15 now!
So that’s miracle number one….

Six years later, at the age of 44 (and a half) I suddenly find myself pregnant - naturally.
Easier pregnancy, DD2 born 5 weeks early, SCBU again…
She is now 9!
That’s our miracle number two…

Don’t give up hope. It can happen. Our two girls are living proof!
Very best wishes to you, I’ve been there and understand….

Hello,
I'm sorry to hear you are going through this! It is heartbreaking and so emotionally draining!
I was 28 years old and went through all the tests after 5 years of trying to get pregnant. We were due to start IVF but they wanted me to have laparoscopy surgery before this and found out I had stage 4 endometriosis! I knew the pain I was having was not 'normal'.
We started ivf after I recovered from surgery but actually after a week of taking meds, I found out that i fell pregnant naturally! We were shocked. I did miscarry but getting pregnant was like wow!
We were only taking ivf meds a week so stopped and a month after I fell pregnant again. We were so nervous. I had no symptoms and all went well she is 5 years old now!
i had another surgery in 2019 and had 2 miscarriages in the last few years but I am currently 17 weeks pregnant now with support of early pregnancy unit, early scan and progesterone prescribed I'm doing ok!
We were told it may not be possible to have children naturally and we were so heart broken but dreams to come true! ❤️

I’m sorry you’re going through this. Infertility can seem so lonely, especially when people are having multiple children, like you say.
Started TTC at aged 26, took 18 months to conceive naturally, had to TFMR at 19 weeks (baby was born alive which was horrific). Fell pregnant again then TFMR again. Then found it I have a chromosomal inversion so would need IVF to eliminate this happening again.
Luckily, we had a round of IVF funded by the NHS. From 31 eggs, we had just one viable embryo that made it through the testing and was clear of any abnormalities.
He’s now a ‘sprightly’ two-year-old.
I wish you all the best of luck, OP.

Oh, I want to add it took just over four years from begging TTC to DS being born. A long wait, but worth it.

Sorry to hear your troubles. My husband had cancer in his piturity as a child so we were warned that we'd likely never have kids. 2 years of meds and he finally had some sperm. However we were told the chances of us conceiving naturally was next to nothing and to go straight to ivf. On the testing we found my egg reserves were very low. So we decided to do a couole of rounds to save eggs for a second child in future. We went for a third round and transfer and I stopped responding to the meds, my folicles were growing weirdly and so decided to stop and start again the next month.

Days before we were gonna start again I felt sick. Took a test and voila I was pregnant naturally. We went for a blood test and my hcg was too high for thr 4 weeks I'd assumed. It turned out I wasn't just pregnant. I was 7 weeks with fraternal twins!!! Sadly we lost twin 2 at 10 weeks but twin one is a gorgous, bouncing (atm literally) 8 month old now.

Infertility is a tough journey.

I started ttc at 22.

Over the next 15 years we had numerous tests, treatments, drugs. Nothing worked, not even a hint of a pregnancy. Somewhere in the middle of that lot they decided I had pcos. It was soul destroying. It was the worst day ever when the consultant said 'there's nothing more we can do'.

2 years after he told us that I fell pregnant naturally at the age of 39, DH was 47 at that point. 17yrs and 9 months after beginning ttc we finally had DS1.

2 yrs later (then aged 41 & 49) I fell pregnant again and along came DS2.

Gobsmacking really. My beautiful boys are now 23 & 21.

omg everyone thank you so so much for sharing these stories with me. They’ve brought so much happiness to me. For some reason when I hear people who have struggled have their babies it fills me with sooo much happiness. Thank you again for sharing and im hoping this first surgery and the removal of the cysts with be the beginning of what it’s meat to be 🌸