Hooray Hooray For Q&A

We had a really good visit with the RE today.  I actually feel like he answered all of our (current) questions... because I actually bucked up and asked them!  Go figure.

He told us that the endo was the worst on my bladder, surprisingly.  That was that only thing I didn't have symptoms for!  Now that it's removed, I'm hoping that I can have some time sans constant peeing... at least until I get pregnant, right?  One can only hope!  Anyways, he thinks the pain I'm still experiencing will go away with my next period and he's "anxious to see how it goes."  Well isn't that just nifty.  I guess we're all awaiting AF with baited breath.  He guessed that we have a window of about a year before it starts to come back, and that fertility treatment might speed that up a bit.

Gratuitous puppy pile just so I can say, "Look!  A plethora!"
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As usual, he gave us the treatment option smorgasbord.  I realize I need to give him a pseudonym.  I think I shall call him, Dr. Plethora because of all of the options he is constantly throwing at us.  There - he's named. We talked about doing a few months with Depot Lupron.  He told us there was some evidence that it could help with an IVF cycle and we could do it if we wanted.  I cornered him on this one.  I was concerned about the symptoms and he said that we could do add-back to avoid some of that.  So I asked if he thought it would really help in our situation.  He FINALLY gave us his actual opinion.  In our situation, it isn't worth the time.  That if I had stage 4 endo he would push for it, but with stage 2, he thinks the help would be marginal.  So we're skipping it and I might revisit it as a pain treatment when we're done with the baby making.  We'll see.

I also asked him about all the endometriosis diet stuff I see, because no fatty wants to limit her eating that much unless the doctor tells her to.  He said that there are things all over our environment that our bodies treat as estrogen (soaps, shampoos, plastics, stuff in the water, all kinds o'crap) and that just limiting certain foods would have such a very minor impact, that it isn't worth it.  There's no way you could avoid things in the world enough to change the estrogenic response in the body.  I was happy to hear that.  What the hell would I eat?  And no wine for the rest of my life?  Shoot me now!

He was very kind and sympathetic and really wanted to make sure we were doing okay emotionally.  He said, "This is not fun stuff to go through by any means and you guys have been through a lot."  It was nice, but I couldn't stop thinking that there are a lot worse things we could have faced at this point.  While never being remotely pregnant makes me sad, I do realize how grateful I am that I haven't suffered a loss.  I see how strong the women in our community are when they experiences losses and I just don't think I could be as strong.  They are the true warriors if you ask me.  Anyway, we're feeling really hopeful right now.  It's good.

As soon as AF rears her head, I'll start BCPs again for IVF #2 - this time WITH ICSI.  We will do another antagonist cycle since I made plenty of mature eggs on it.  He's hopeful that the ICSI will give us more embryos and that cleaning out the endo will give us better quality embryos.  Sounds like a plan to me! And if you're here from ICLW... What up?