Wispin You poor thing - how scary. I have epilepsy and DH says watching me have a seizure is utterly terrifying. I’m glad it’s nothing more sinister and you’re OK now. I don’t have endo but my consultant is an endo specialist (he literally wrote the book on endo) - apart from a large endometrioma which may be visible on ultrasound, AFAIK the only way to diagnose endo is through a laparoscopy. Apart from recently, do you have pain during sex and / or very heavy, painful periods, that might be red flags for endo? I’d have assumed you would have had a lap to investigate if there were?
Amara big hugs - and if it makes you feel any better I was exactly the same with this thread. Didn’t feel like I had anything to say, as I was having failed treatment after failed treatment, and didn’t really have anything to add
I can also sympathise with the work question. I’m fine with treatment itself, but I have to taper off my painkillers in the run up to a possible transfer (I have chronic pain from a spinal injury) and after a transfer I will be laid up completely, unable to sit or walk. Which means as a freelancer, with possible tranfers on the horizon, I’ve not been able to take on any decent contracts, because I can’t take anything on that I would then have to drop out of. I’ve been either doing treatment, pregnancy, miscarrying, or doing more treatment this entire year.
hyland and others, hope you are doing well
So the medicated FET was cancelled as I didn’t respond to pills or patches
The ovulation induction FET was cancelled as I got four decent follicles but my lining didn’t get above 6mm and wasn’t triple line
We tried a G-CSF wash as an experiment - it improved the quality of the endometrium but not the thickness. But it seemed to help, so we will repeat in a treatment cycle
We assumed I wouldn’t get a proper period (haven’t had proper bleeds, just black clotty gunge) and so I was booked in for another hysteroscopy at the end of the month, where I was going to also have a copper IUD put in. That was going to stay in for 1-2 months while I took HRT, in the hope of getting my lining to expand and get me menstruating
Amazingly, I actually had a period of sorts, so we cancelled the hysto and have started a treatment cycle. Dr thinks the G-CSF wash was what made the difference - as this was my suggestion, I’m feeling pretty pleased that he agreed to try it!
So, as my lining failed to respond to either attempt at a FET, and only thickens up in my fresh cycles when my oestrogen levels are sky high, we’re having to bring out the big guns
We are doing a full stims cycle with EC just to try and thicken up my lining, in order to put back a PGS tested frostie
I’m not eligible to be an egg donor, so we’re donating the eggs to medical research instead
We’re going to be doing the G-CSF wash again, adding in vaginal viagra pessaries, and oestrogen tablets on top if needed
I started stims this morning. It’s last chance saloon, if we can’t get my lining to thicken up and get an embryo back on board, we’re not far off the end of the line…