I hady right ovary removed 20 days before I got married. Sue to a dermoid cyst that caused torsion to my fallopian tube and necrosis of part of the ovary before removal. Very painful. It was unexpected, as I had never had any ovarian trouble and I was devastated.
Fast forward almost 2 years later. The husband and I have been TTC for about a year. I have a REALLY hard time every month when I get my period. I'm talking hours of crying. I try to stop. I get up and do stuff, go to work, bit I just end up crying throughout the day.
My husband isn't the most empathic. He thinks I think about it too much, and that I "need to just let it happen." I've tried tracking my ovulation with a couple of different devices, but I don't feel like it's consistent or accurate. I think I'm going to try a BBT.
I have an appointment next month with my OBGYN to see if everything is ok. I tend to have really bad ovulation pain, that doesn't ever really go away after it comes. It even makes sex uncomfortable often times which makes it hard to agree to be repeatedly shaken over and over to have sex.
I'm starting today. It hasn't officially started but I can feel it coming so I'm already sad and I'm typing here because I know if I say it to my husband I'm goin to get a half-assed Sorry and not much sympathy for the tears. I'm in the trenches with the disappointment now. Everyone around me seems to be getting pregnant and everyone wants to know when I'll be pregnant. (I thought we'd moved on from this question of each other as women).
I say all that to say I am with you if your on the struggle bus like me and I'm encouraged that someone who was just as desperate to find someone who was like them, was able to conceive.