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kcade21 · June 2011

Hi everyone! I'm new to the bump. I'm 23 years old, and I was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2009 and i have surgery to remove the adhesions. I was place on Seasonale after my surgery in 2009. I got married May 2010 and I got off BCP immediately. We both wanted a family right away. My DH is 25. I got pregnant in August of 2010 and miscarried at 6 weeks. And to our surprise, I got pregnant again three weeks after the miscarriage. In october 2010, I miscarried at 10 weeks and had a d&c the next day. I never got a visit from AF until Dec 25 which was just spotting and lasted one day. Then on January 25, AF visited me again but only like 2 days and it was super light. About one week later, I started to hemorhhage and passing huge clots. It happened almost daily for about a week and would last for about 1-2 hours straight. I'm not over exaggerating on hemorrhaging. I'm a nurse and I just knew this wasnt normal. I've never had heavy periods. I called my dr the 2nd day it happened and he told me it was ok. I knew this wasnt ok because it happened at work one night and I was wearing a maternity pad just in case it happened at work. I was standing 5 feet from the bathroom door when I felt everything gush and by the time I got in the bathroom. My maternity pad was soaked and so was my entire scrub pants. Quite embarrassing to have happened at work and it lasted like 1 hour. So I called my doctor again to tell him. He said if it happened again to come in for an ultrasound. Needless to say it happened again the next night at work. Double embarrassing!! I went the next morning for an ultrasound. My uterus was completely full of blood. My doctor wanted to do a hysteroscope and d&c right away. The next day I had surgery and I found out that I have Ashermans Syndrome. It was caused from my previous d&c after my second miscarriage. The doctor scrapped too much tissue away (they do d&c's completely blind). This caused my body to start overproducing scar tissue. My uterus was scarred shut and couldnt empty thats why I would pour out (literally). Ashermans isnt something that goes away. Its always there. I was placed on high dose hormone therapy after surgery and had a drain placed in my uterus for one week. I finally went to see a RE in May which I love. He did a HSG to find both tubes scarred closed. He opened them up and told me that I still have scar tissue in my uterus but not enough to take me back for another surgery because every surgery will cause more scar tissue. He said there should be plenty of room for a baby to stick and grow good. There are alot of complications with Ashermans once someone gets pregnant. My doctor placed me on baby aspirin since I tested borderline high for antiphosolipid. In may, I did one month of birth control to try and regulate my cycle, it was 30 days long. I started my cylce May 26, 2011. And I started my first round of clomid 50 mg days 5-9. I had horrible ovarian pain on my Right lower side during days 8-14 which i believe was due to ovulation. I cant chart my BBT because I work night shift 7 days on and 7 days off. And I didnt do OPK. My progesterone level on day 23 was 28, so I know I ovulated. Today is cycle day 31, no AF and got a BFN this morning. I've been having lots of symptoms but its also been so long since I had a normal cycle that I dont remember what s/s I felt with AF coming. Any thoughts or advice on this? Do you think I'm out for the month? And does anyone have ashermans or know someone with ashermans? I dont know anyone else with Ashermans. Its been a very hard month. The end of may was my due date with my second pregnancy that ended in miscarriage and my cousin had her baby a week later. Everyone at work is announcing they're pregnant and seems like everywhere I turn there's a pregnant women. I have some many feelings of shame and failure everytime I hear a pregnancy announcement. Does anyone else have feelings like this?

BabyDarling88 · June 2011

You can not blame yourself for your miscarriages! I know it is hard to see everyone around you getting pregnant when you yourself want it so bad. But you have to stay strong and trust your doctor. If he said you can pregnant then you just need to relax and do what you can but let you body do the work! I know we all hope that it will happen the first cycle but unfortunately that's not a reality. Wait a couple more days and see if AF shows and if not test again, you may have tested too early. If a couple weeks go by and no AF shows and your still getting BFN than I would call your doctor. I wish you the best of luck and stay strong. You will get your baby!

katyms7 · June 2011

I do not know anyone with ashermans or much about it. I just wanted to say I am so sorry for all that you have been going through. This sounds like a very hard and emotional thing to deal with. I admire you for being such a strong person to be having this happening and not giving up on your dream of having a family. It makes it hard when you want something so bad and you don't have 100% control of it to make it happen. It makes it so much worse when everyone arounds you is pregnant. I am in the same boat as well and it is such bummer.

Like they say, you are never out until AF comes. I would try to test again on Monday if AF doesn't come.

I hope you get some answers or your RE can help. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

whoberry · June 2011

Geez! Sounds like you have been through a terrible experience in the last year. I'm so sorry. I know it's hard to watch other people getting pregnant easily. I watched the 19 Kids & Counting special first grandson episode the other night and could not stop crying. I don't really have any advice to offer you, but I do find being on this board to be helpful to me. I have not told many people that we are TTC so it's nice to be able to post and lurk here and know others are going through the same range of emotions. If there are any ladies with Asherman's on here I hope they respond to you. Good luck and welcome to the board.

michaela080 · June 2011

I'm am so sorry for all you have been through! I don't have any advice, but the TTCAL board might. Good luck!

kepper6000 · June 2011

I am so, so sorry about your losses and everything you've been through. I want to second the PP suggestion that you post this on the TTC After a Loss board because I think it's more likely that someone over there will be able to give you some advice based on experience with Asherman's.

Best of luck to you!

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