A Journey through Treatment and Pregnancy

October was slowly coming into focus, and the thought of children started to creep up on me.  In late May, I had broken up with my longtime boyfriend and decided I was best on my own, and had made the decision that being a Single Mom by Choice was my best route to having children.  I didn’t want to look for a “daddy” or a “husband.”  I sincerely thought it wasn’t fair to subject someone to that.  “Oh hi, nice to meet you.  Would you like to be my baby daddy?”  That just seems so wrong to me.

In making this choice, I had to be aware of the laparoscopy that was looming over me.  You remember right?  The slight blockage in my fallopian tubes that could potentially cause problems with my getting pregnant?

Well I had never had surgery before and the thought of someone cutting into me scared the hell out of me.  After speaking to my doctor I had decided to hold off on going through with the procedure and instead opted to try getting pregnant without it.  My doctor wasn’t happy with my decision but he is enough of a forward thinker to realize there is a time and place for such an argument and this was not one of those times.  He understood my fears and just asked that I remain open minded.

So with opting out of the laparoscopy I also opted to stop my birth control as well, in order to purge the medication and prep my body for pregnancy . . .

With all of the questions on whether or not Birth Control Therapy for the treatment of Adenomyosis, I have to say that aside from this site, I was happy to be somewhat of a positive test case and urged my doctor to allow publication of my treatment if it would help other doctors make similar choices for their patients.

For several months I continued the birth control therapy.  It was great!  My periods were not heavy, but most importantly, they were not painful.  Of course I still carried the prescription naprosyn in the event the birth control failed me, but I didn’t have to make the change which made it all the more important for me.  I began to realize I would more than likely have to be on birth control therapy for the next 15 years or so, and to be honest, I didn’t mind.

I had finally given up on the notion of continuous birth control therapy. My body did not agree with it no matter what different medication my doctor attempted to prescribe.  Although the whole idea was to eliminate my period entirely in order to slow the growth of the adenomyosis, I felt my sanity was a little more important.  I took the new medication for only 10 days and stopped

Within 24 hours my cycle began, and within 2 days I thought I was hemorrhaging.  The only clear explanation I can give to strange little phenomena is the fact that I had last had my period 3 months earlier so my body was purging.  I was really scared, I was going through a super plus tampon in less than 30 minutes.  Then when I would remove the tampon it would nearly pour out of me.

I waited a little while longer to see if I felt weak, light headed or if it would slow down.  Luckily within about 30 - 40 mins it slowed down enough for me to leave a super plus in for several hours, and went back to normal by the following day.