One-tubers TTC again....

[boodleboot]

right then,

DH has decided that after two regular cycles post EP we can try again....was very excited about that prospect until it hit me like a thunderbolt....i only have ONE TUBE NOW....of course i knew this but now i really KNOW this IYSWIM and now feel a peculiar mix of and of course and at the whole situation we find ourselves in....

I want to be positive that it will happen and won't require assisted conception but am really nervous and scared it is going to take forever....or not happen at all....{trying not to think like that....}

calling all one-tubers for a bit of handholding and good old MN support......lets go through it together....

hey guys....sorry not posted for so long....i got rather wrapped up in all manner of end of pregnancy ailments that made me miserable and antisocial....

big :( to BBE....so sorry to hear that...ur reaction sounds totally normal to me, glad to hear u r looking after urself tho.

there is hope for all us onetubers tho....i have proof laying here asleep in my arms.....Alice Elizabeth was born last fri, 10th, at 5.47am weighing in at a healthy 8lb 2oz!!

delivered rather dramatically but very calmly on the driveway half in and out of the car by my mum and husband!! ( i underestimated how quick the whole labour was progressing a touch.....)

possibly the most poignant moment so far has been the realisation that Alice was born on the 1yr anniversary of having the ectopic baby removed.....has she been reborn? i dont know but it feels to me very right and fitting....she is a little miracle and i just love her so much already.

i'll keep checking in on how u all doing and really really hoping u all get your babies safely and quickly!!

xxxx

Hi, I'm new to this but eternally grateful to have found somewhere I can get this stuff off my chest. Hope I'm posting in the right place

Been TTC for the last year or so following an EP a year earlier. I'm on my 2nd cycle of Clomid now and have at various points over last few days had hot flushes, sore nipples, dizzyness all potentially just side effects of the drug. Tested with FR at what should have been 6 days early and got BFN, tried a Boots 4-days early detector test on Mon just to be sure and got another BFN.

You'd think I'd have learned from that but I am very regular and now AF is officially 1 day late. I've now had a slight but an annoying pain nonetheless on the side with my remaining tube all day. So although the realistic part of me knows it's probably just AF gearing up for her arrival, I'm veering between hope that the tests were wrong and fear that they were right and it's gonna be EP all over again.

Sorry to ramble on but just needed to get the thoughts out of my head. Cheers

O & congratulations Boodleboot xx

Gosh I so know how you feel. I had big twinges on my good side (right also) this month and was v worried. But it was all in my head thankfully and period came, no more pains etc.

Take another test. Whether positive or negative and pain persists, get to a GP.

If positive, get to a GP anyway regardless of pain.

If negative but pain stops, keep an eye on it and test again after a couple of days if no period.

It's such a nightmare isn't it?

Hi, Can I join you guys too?

Already reading this thread has been good therapy for me and I thank you all for sharing. You have helped me feel I'm not the only one to have one-tube.

I suffered my first EP two weeks ago and had my right tube removed . I hope you don't mind me 'getting it all out'?

It was very much a shock situation for me and DH. We have a DS who is almost one and still BF. I didn't even know I was pregnant as I had had three recent light periods but assumed all was ok as still BFing. That was until I got severe right sided abdo pain, assuming it was a gastro bug that was going about I persevered with it. As the day progressed the pain became more central and period pain like and then I started to bleed, which I though was strange as I'd had a light period the week before. Again I just put this down to BFing and that I probably wasn't feeding DS enought now and that this was a first 'proper' period.

By the time my husband returned home from work I was in significant pain and could not get comfortable. I settled my DS in bed for the night and tried to get an early night. After an hour on trying to get comfortable I struggled to even get out off bed and had to call my DH to help me. I decided something else must be going on like appendicitis or ovarian cyst so we called nhs24 and my parents incase I need to go and see an emergency GP. NHS24 seemed to take an eternity to call us back and in the meantime I started to vomit and almost passed out so my mum decided to bundle me into their car and take me of to A&E.

A&E thankfully seen me as a priority and put me on IV pain relief and promptly from a urine test determined I was pregnant but that it was likely implanted in the wrong place. I was settled into GYN ward, but a quick scan by a SHO wasn't conclusive.I was observed over the rest of the night and scanned by sonographer first thing which concluded that I had an EP in my right tube. From then I was rushed down to theatre before further rupturing could take place. Luckily the laperoscopic proceedure was sucessful.

I am left now with a complete jumble of emotions. Can I/Do I need to grieve for a pregnancy I didn't know existed? I think I am realising the answer to this already- yes!I have been told I am extremely lucky I presented at A&E but why have I been so unlucky for it too happen in the first place?I have now realsied I want a second baby more than anything now but I am already panicking about been half as fertile. What if I have another EP and I don't know I'm pregnant? I can't bare the thought I could lose the other tube.

I feel desperate to have another baby as soon as I can but have decided to give myself 6 months to heal physically and emotionally before we TTC.

I apologise for this long mumbo jumbo post but it has felt good writing it all down.

Thanks for reading

Aonach - sorry, only just seen this.

What a bloody ordeal. It is an extra dimension to go through it not even having known you were pregnant.

I personally would agree with you giving yourself time before ttc. I needed more time than I thought I would to process everything and basically calm down a bit. But everyone is different and I know others have been keen to crack on. Whatever you feel comfortable with.

We've just started ttc again and it's tough going. Most of the time I have convinced myself that both tubes are damaged for some reason and that it will happen again.

However, I do know that this is irrational and that, statistically, you and I are highly likely to go on to have successful pregnancies. It just feels a bit like Russian roulette at the moment!

Good luck with your recovery, keep posting if it helps.

Hi All,

So sorry it's been so long since I posted last. I just really wanted to update you with the lovely news that I am 29 weeks pregnant and all seems to be going well!!

We bought a clearblue ovulation test as a last resort in march this year and thought we would give it a go. At least if nothing else it would tell us if I was still ovulationg. Day 14 came and went with no ovulation symbol on the little display and as we neared day 18 and 19 my heart sank-however on day 21 ping-there it was!! After trying on this day and this day alone (we went on holiday the next day and were sharing a bed with our four yr old son) it worked!! Basically for 2 and a half years we had been concentrating our efforts on day 11-19 as the dr had suggested and been completely missing my personal most fertile days!! After initially feeling a bit silly for not trying an ovulation monitor before we were over the moon. Each milestone has been reached tentativelt but finally I feel like we are able to relax and enjoy the remainder of this pregnancy.

I really wanted to post as so many threads seem to tail off and you don't always get the positive sides. Anyway I hope my story can give some of you hope that one day things will happen for you all too. Wishing you lots of luck, love and the all important sticky beans we all long for. BBE. xxx

Helloo..
I am a one tuber.. after an ectopic in September 2010
and then i had an early m/c in may 2011..
waiting for AF to arrive xx