I decided to create this blog as a way for me to share my story and journey through the evils of endo and infertility, but also to give other women struggling with these issues hope and to chronicle my journey through all of this.
I'll start by saying I have had reproductive issues for as long as I can remember. I always had ovarian cysts, extremely painful and long cycles, and terrible GI side effects with each cycle. I really thought I was completely normal and that was just a part of my cycle, that was how it would be. When I was 20 things really started to get worse, endometriosis was mentioned but since the diagnosis is only made via a lap surgery, I declined each time to have it done. Fast forward a year and a half later, I married the man of my dreams and we immediately started TTC. Given the issues I knew I have always had with my reproductive system I just had a feeling that getting pregnant would prove to be difficult. Indeed it was. We tried for a while and finally went to a dr who again suggested a lap to rule out endo. Once again, I declined. It was then decided to have an u/s to see if I ovulate.. results were in.. ovulation was very poor. I could release an egg, but the egg was not mature and of poor quality. Two weeks after finding that out, to our surprise, we got a positive HPT. We were cautiously excited.. our excitement ended soon after, when we miscarried on Thanksgiving Day. We were heartbroken and I was kind of mad at myself for even getting excited at a positive test when I had been told just a couple weeks before that any egg fertilized would probably not go on to be a viable pregnancy. The Dr told us it was safe to TTC again right away if we wanted to.. we opted to do it. That cycle was negative. The next cycle my Dr suggested an HSG to see if my tubes were blocked.. all came back clear.. no blocked tubes. We again tried, negative. We then took a break for a couple cycles. After negatives and negatives the Dr prescribed me a supraovulation drug, Femara to take on CD 3-7 followed by a HCG trigger shot after an u/s showed sufficient and mature follicles. We did the first round and I produced three follicles.. the Dr wasn't pleased with the results.. that cycle ended negative. We tried again, this time I produced 13 follicles.. the Dr told us if this cycle worked we would be looking at possible twins.. 11 days later I took a test and to my surprise I stared down at two pink lines.. faint, but it was there! I didn't know if it could still possibly be the HCG trigger so I waited to tell my husband. I called the OB office and of course the nurse said it was too early and it was probably the trigger. I tested again the next morning, it was darker... no way could this be the trigger shot still in my system! I told my husband and we were both cautiously optimistic. We prayed and prayed for our little miracle in the making.. I called the Dr office again and to tell them the tests were getting darker.. they called in a script for Progesterone and said to start taking it ASAP. We had our first u/s at 6 weeks and 3 days and learned we were having ONE baby and he/she had a healthy heart rate of 130 bpm! I was over the moon, and so in shock. That pregnancy ended up being viable but not without some bumps in the road.. I had an ornery cervix and dealt with PTL in my 27th week. Our miracle baby that we nicknamed 'snowflake' remained strong and persevered through the pregnancy.. Eli Glenn Jones decided to enter this world on January 7, 2012 at 2:56 pm.
After I gave birth to Eli, my cycles resumed about 8 weeks postpartum and oh were they awful! They were the worse they had ever been. I assumed I just wasn't back to my before prego uterus status. Things got even worse and I went to the Dr where I was diagnosed with a large cyst on my left ovary.. thats no surprise and really no big deal to me. The pain got worse and worse, so much worse I ended up in the ER (on Mother's Day of all days) the ER told me they were almost positive I was having an ectopic pregnancy.. thankfully that was ruled out. I went to the Dr the next day where he suggested I have surgery to remove it.. of course I declined and opted to wait to see if it would go away. I actually sought a second opinion and was told I could take birth control pills to see if it would help.. 2 days into the birth control pills things got a lot worse, so much worse that I decided to schedule the surgery with the other Dr. I had my surgery on June 27, 2012 and they removed a hemorrhagic cyst along with endometriosis on my colon, ligaments supporting my fallopian tubes, cul- de- sac, a polyp in my uterus, and adhesions on my ovary, colon, and pelvic wall. I finally had my answers for all of the pain with cycles since early adolescence and fertility issues.
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