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Old 05-25-2008, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by praying4amiracle
Hi Ladies- I have a question for those of you that were diagnosed with mild endo. What were you advised by your RE after the diagnosis? What were your next steps? Did you have a lap to remove the endo? I'm guessing so since I know the only way to diagnose endo. is via lap. surgery. I guess I'm one of the unfortunate few that was diagnosed but nothing was removed. I had to have emergency surgery a few years back to rule out an ectopic pregnancy. It was at that time my RE discovered I had mild endo. yet didn't do anything.I soon left that practice! It seems the opinions vary about having a lap done from what I was told (and read). Different schools of thought I guess. Some say for mild endo. it really doesn't help much with regard to TTC, others say differently. I have a hysterscopy planned to remove a polyp and scar tissue so I'm debating on seeing if a lap. done at the same time might be beneficial. Also (one last question!), for those that had surgery to remove mild endo, did you notice a difference after the surgery, TTC?

I'd really appreciate your replies. :-)

In addition to our IF issues, I was having severe pain and bloating (and had GI tests done last fall) that led RE to recommend lap before we moved to IVF (we skipped other ART procedures because we're also dealing with MF issues)......endo was not confirmed until the lap in March 08, in which, RE classified as mild stage 2 and removed a tubal cyst.

We just had our ET for our 1st IVF cycle today, so I don't know how our results will turn out, yet! it's a !

Good luck in your decision!
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TTC #1: 4+ years
me: 32, mild endo
DH: 33, low counts


IVF #1 - May 08
Acupuncture (AP) weekly
4/25 - started Lupron
5/10 - started stims (follistim 125iu 2x day)
5/13 - started AP 2x week
5/14 - b/w, u/s - 5 follies, E = 130+ (increase follistim to 225iu 2x day)
5/17 - b/w, u/s - 7 follies, E = 800+
5/19 - b/w, u/s - 9 follies, E = 1400+
5/20 - b/w, u/s - 13 follies, E = 1800+
5/20 - 8pm, IM trigger (iced for 15min, didn't feel a thing!)
5/22 - 8am, ER = 7 eggies
5/23 - 4 of 7 eggs mature, all 4 fertilized by ICSI
5/25 - 8am, ET = 2 embabies (did AP before & after)
5/26 - HCG booster
5/29 - HCG booster
6/1 - HCG booster
6/9 - beta =
Summer 08 ~ Taking a break to figure out where to go from here.....and, of course, TTC on our own!
8/13 - Post-cycle appt for IVF #1 - considering IUI, while saving for IVF #2
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