Oh I'm sorry @VenusStarr those medications have horrible side effects, I hope you can come off them as soon as possible.
I spoke with the specialist from
Fertilysis, he's really knowledgeable about the microflora which was great. I had so many questions! He’s concerned about the high amount of gardnerella from my biopsy he said that this is not just a misbalance this is an active infection, he’s not surprised the first antibiotic I took after the initial Emma in April (coamoxiclav) didn’t shift it as it’s anaerobic. He said if it is corrected then two things can happen, either it stays normal or I will revert to abnormal flora, if I do this then the best option is to create a window of opportunity before a transfer, so prophylactic antibiotics and vaginal probiotics.
He has some different treatment protocols that I could pursue if I have a third biopsy with 0% lactobacillus, he said either we can talk about oral antibiotics or if needed I can fly over to Greece and they can do hysteroscopy and up to 10 washes of uterine antibiotics, this would only cost around €1000 so not that much considering how much it cost to have the biopsies every time. I would likely do this if a third is abnormal, because I've already had two courses of treatment. He said he sees people like me a lot in the population of infertile people he’s dealing with. I asked him whether I should be thinking about giving up and going on to surrogacy and he said he thinks that it will work. We spoke about whether this has stopped me getting pregnant, he said there is evidence that abnormal microflora affects cellular communication, local environmental factors and how the immune system works locally, garnderella also forms biofilms associated with infertility. Whether there is another cause such as an immune issue also there he doesn’t know.
I've ordered the test kit, I'll need to take a menstrual fluid sample and do a vaginal swab mid cycle. So I will probably get the results either the end of the year or early next year.