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 . . .

Going to the 2nd appointment with the fertility GYN had me just a bit nervous. I had gotten the results of the endocrine test over the phone (my ovaries are releasing properly), but I couldn’t get the results of the hysterosalpingogram over the phone.

By the time I made it to the 2nd appointment I was pretty nervous and somewhat afraid.
1) The doc told me that his colleague viewed the MRI results, and that the results were accurate (it’s nice to have a 2nd opinion).
2) The results from the hysterosalpingogram showed some scar tissue in my fallopian tubes.

The fallopian tube test came back with some information that wasn’t too normal, but not terrible. The test showed that the fallopian tubes, at least one of them had blockage from scarring after an infection I had as a teenager. The doc basically said when I’m ready to start trying for children I should have a laparoscopy to help clear up the passageways. When I do become pregnant I would then have to be monitored to be sure I don’t suffer an ectopic pregnancy (this is when the fertilized egg implants itself outside of the uterus (normally the fallopian tube).

To try to slow the spreading of the adenomyosis, the doctor suggested Continuous Birth Control Therapy in order to “attempt” to make the uterus quiescent. Layman’s terms? The doc wants to treat it by putting me on the pill for at least 6 months, and then take another MRI image to see where my body stands. On this treatment, I would continuously take the pill and not take the customary 7 days off. Therefore no period. Sounds cool right? When the notion scared the crap out of me because there are so many issues with being on the pill . . . and not having my period sounded . . . well . . . unnatural.