Hi ladies! I've been active on the TTCAS board for a few months now and lurk here a lot lately so I thought I should intro myself and ask for your expert advice.
Here's our history...I have a blocked tube and fibroids. I had to have a bunch of big ones removed back in 2010 but today I had Sono with RE which revealed that one is encroaching on my uterine wall.
DH has ZERO sperm. 3 years ago he had some because we had DD in 2012. Anyway, 2 SAs showed there are now 0, BUT we do have 12 vials of frozen sperm from 1996 before he was treated for testicular cancer.
WWYD: RE told me today after sono that it's up to us to decide if we want to A) Remove fibroids before trying IVF or IUI cycles or Try a few cycles to see if IVF or IUI would work leaving fibroids alone for now.
I am not sure what to do. We will being paying OOP for all IUI and IVF treatments but our insurance will cover surgery to remove fibroids. So if you were me, what would you do?? Thank you for reading and any advice, thoughts or comments.
ME: 35 DH: 39
Married July 2011
DD Born 8/12
TTC #2 since 11/13
ME: Submucosal Fibroid Surgery Date APRIL 14th 2015 -Left Tube is blocked by Fibroid~Surgeon removed 26 Fibroids from my Ute and Unblocked my Tube
DH:Azoospermia...Thank God we have 12 vials of frozen swimmers
July 15-Check to see if Ute is all healed
IUI #1 8/3/15...BFN
IUI #2 9/5/15...BFP on 9/17/15
Beta #1-344
Beta #2-809
Beta #3 8,390
1st u/s 8/8/15 1 bean HB 135 @ 6w5d
Re: Intro & WWYD
TTC #3 since June 2013
BFP #1 7/21/2013--EDD 3/30/14--D&C 9/24/13
BFP #2 1/28/14--MC 2/7/14
IUI #1 5mg Femara + trigger = BFN
IUI #2 5mg Femara + trigger = BFN
IUI #3 5mg Femara + trigger = BFN
Welcome
My DH has azoospermia so we can only do IVF with a sperm aspiration procedure never IUI.
If I were you, I would get the firbroids removed, since if you cycle IVF or IUI and it does not work you might always wonder if that is cause, and since both as so $$$ especially IVF I would want to go in without any possible impediments.
Good luck with what you choose.
Thank you ladies! I agree and I really think the best thing for us is to just remove them.
On that note, does anyone know if there's a certain amount of time I will have to wait once I have them removed before I could cycle IVF?? I know my RE will tell me but our follow up appointment isn't until Feb 3rd! Which feels like an eternity from now! LOL.
ME: 35 DH: 39
Married July 2011
DD Born 8/12
TTC #2 since 11/13
ME: Submucosal Fibroid Surgery Date APRIL 14th 2015 -Left Tube is blocked by Fibroid~Surgeon removed 26 Fibroids from my Ute and Unblocked my Tube
DH:Azoospermia...Thank God we have 12 vials of frozen swimmers
July 15-Check to see if Ute is all healed
IUI #1 8/3/15...BFN
IUI #2 9/5/15...BFP on 9/17/15
Beta #1-344
Beta #2-809
Beta #3 8,390
1st u/s 8/8/15 1 bean HB 135 @ 6w5d
Dx: Me: Recurrent Pregnancy Loss; DH: Low Morphology (2%)
BFP#1: MC 3/1/11 at 6w1d - EDD 10/21/11
BFP#3: MC 2/8/14 at 4w5d - EDD 10/13/14
BFP#6: CP 11/6/14 at 4w2d - EDD 7/14/15
IVF #1 with ICSI & PGS: May/June 2015, ER 6/3/15, 17R/17M/15F
IVF #2 with ICSI & PGS: July 2015, ER 7/16/15, 16R/11M/9F
PGS results = 6 normal embryos (4 boys, 2 girls)
FET 9/23/15 = BFFN
BFP #7 (beyond surprised again!) 4/26/16. EDD 1/5/17. beautiful betas!!!! and then near-fatal hemorrhagic corpus luteum. turns out baby was ectopic after all; another lap 5/6 (@24dpo).
the universe can fuck off.
"You are overly paranoid and delusional that every one is out to get you." -lastsliverofhope
I agree with the others, I'd have them removed before moving forward with the OOP treatments
Me(27)+ DH(30) Married since Sept.2007
BFP #1 DD born 6/1/2009 (no complications)
TTC #2 March 2011
BFP# 2 after 4 rounds of clomid (blighted ovum)12/11
BFP# 3 w help of clomid 2/12 DS born 10/24/2012
TTC#3
Stopped preventing when DS was 6 months old (4/13), really started TTC 10/13
Started clomid July 2014, 3 failed rounds of clomid w OB (low pro on CD 21) sent to RE
HSG and blood work all good
round 1: clomid and trigger shot~BFN
round 2: clomid, trigger and IUI~BFN
round 3: clomid, trigger and IUI +4 booster HCG~NOPE
On a break!!! Til April/May
round 4:clomid, trigger (missed IUI window) NO fricking way BFP
Thank you so much for your advice ladies! I have my pre op appointment on Feb 18th and they said they could do it Robotically which also means laparoscopic so WOO-HOO for that! I also have a follow up with RE on the 12th to decide if IUI or IVF is our best option once the fibroids are removed.
I post this to the pro boards thinking everyone was going over there (I honestly have no clue what happened or why everyone was angry or why people stayed or whatever. I just want to be wherever I can get some support and give some support) so if this is the right place for me or the wrong place just let me know! I've been out of touch for the past 2 weeks because my FIL unexpectedly passed away so we've been dealing with that instead of IF stuff.
ME: 35 DH: 39
Married July 2011
DD Born 8/12
TTC #2 since 11/13
ME: Submucosal Fibroid Surgery Date APRIL 14th 2015 -Left Tube is blocked by Fibroid~Surgeon removed 26 Fibroids from my Ute and Unblocked my Tube
DH:Azoospermia...Thank God we have 12 vials of frozen swimmers
July 15-Check to see if Ute is all healed
IUI #1 8/3/15...BFN
IUI #2 9/5/15...BFP on 9/17/15
Beta #1-344
Beta #2-809
Beta #3 8,390
1st u/s 8/8/15 1 bean HB 135 @ 6w5d