The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Conceive when its just not happening (12m+)

fluffnutter

!!!!!! is a Pouch of Douglas?? If it's in your lady bits it should have a woman's name!

TeamLowe

Wiki tells me it's the bit in between your uterus and bladder. But it does not explain who Douglas is, which I feel is a massive oversight x x

tea_lover

I remember the first time they told me I had endo in PoD and I was peeing myself laughing. The more I knew I shoudl stop laughing the worse it got. It's not even that funny!

But on a more serious note, glad it's all done now BZ and that you got some answers. Hope you're feeling ok. My top post-lap tip is peppermint, it really helps with the shoulder pain from the gas. PoD endo can cause a lot of bowel-type pain - as I guess you know!

bigzippy

tea_lover wrote: »

I remember the first time they told me I had endo in PoD and I was peeing myself laughing. The more I knew I shoudl stop laughing the worse it got. It's not even that funny!

But on a more serious note, glad it's all done now BZ and that you got some answers. Hope you're feeling ok. My top post-lap tip is peppermint, it really helps with the shoulder pain from the gas. PoD endo can cause a lot of bowel-type pain - as I guess you know!

Thanks, peppermint finally occurred to me at around shops-shut-o'clock, last night! :doh: Not had the heart to send DH out again today My collar bone is killing, and dh making me laugh is not helping my belly pain either especially along side my cough I've just had my first post op shower though and glad to be rid of the EKG sticky pad patches and bright red lobster iodine belly trying to work up the guts to remove the dressings and replace them Noone told me (until I was being discharged) I couldn't drive for 6 weeks though!! :shocked: Secretly hoping the specialist reverses that advice when I see her on the 30th :cool:

Fluff - afaik PoD is the bit between bowel back wall and back of uterus - also referred to as the cul-de-sac, apparently. Not investigated how close to the bladder it is, but she did say they did nothing about the endo they found near the tubes to my bladder, so that explains the regular feelings of having a UTI, whether I have one or not. :cool: Also explains why the TV scan hurt-to-tears and the smears can have the same effect (s*x too, at times, tbh).:o

TL you made me LOL (which is painful!) with the oversight! :rotfl:

DomRavioli

Hi

Sorry I haven't posted for a while, its been a bit manic here! I've had to have a fallopian tube removed (unplanned) due to a Hydrosalpinx (sp*), so that was a bit of an unexpected twist! Recovering at home though, and still optimistic about the future.
BigZ - Hope you're feeling better soon

Dom

Chocolate_Cookie_Monster

Hi all,

I have not posted here for a while. Last time was when I was deep in the decision of eggsharing or waiting for IVF on the NHS. Well we decided to egg share in the end as we couldn't guarantee having IVF within the next year at least. We had all the tests and at the end of July I had my letter confirming my acceptance onto the programme and that I will be going into the database for matching.
Incredibly 3 days later I got my BFP. I had to have lots more tests and scans after the ectopic last year and having earlier this year being told by the NHS that I couldn't conceive naturally - I ovulated from the ovary and tube that doesn't work. I always read stories like that and never believed I would be one of the lucky ones and I know I have a lot to be thankful for.

I won't be posting here again. I wish all of you all the luck in the world and will still check up on this thread as I have been doing.

CCM x

TeamLowe

CCM that's great news hope you have an uneventful and happy pregnancy

Dom Ravioli glad the surgery went well and you're feeling more positive.

Sorry BigZ lol

Booking a holiday to NYC in April for our second anniversary. sick of this waiting round to get pregnant and need something tangible to look forward to x x

QQuaver

Congratulations CCM!:j
Great to know miracles can still happen:happyhear

onestep

CCM wow! Congratulations!!!

Dom sorry to hear about your unplanned op. Hope your recovery goes smoothly

AFM.. I've got a tummy bug been feeling sooo sick. Doing the diet the world of good though

chickpea

Chocolate_Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Hi all,

I have not posted here for a while. Last time was when I was deep in the decision of eggsharing or waiting for IVF on the NHS. Well we decided to egg share in the end as we couldn't guarantee having IVF within the next year at least. We had all the tests and at the end of July I had my letter confirming my acceptance onto the programme and that I will be going into the database for matching.
Incredibly 3 days later I got my BFP. I had to have lots more tests and scans after the ectopic last year and having earlier this year being told by the NHS that I couldn't conceive naturally - I ovulated from the ovary and tube that doesn't work. I always read stories like that and never believed I would be one of the lucky ones and I know I have a lot to be thankful for.

I won't be posting here again. I wish all of you all the luck in the world and will still check up on this thread as I have been doing.

CCM x

God bless you CCM - and yes, it is reassuring to hear that miracles are still possible. I hope we've all got one little miracle still in us!

Congratulation!

Please let us know how you get on - totally not the case that we don't want updates once you are pg - I for one like to know what's happening for the 'graduates' post TTC (hate that word 'graduates'. Makes the rest of us feel like the world's oldest undergraduates. Yuck - won't use it again..!)

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Had a funny day. Took my son swimming and encountered one of the mums from the toddler groups I used to go to( before the pg announcements there got too much.)

She also only has one child same as me (also starting school next year). She has grey hair, I think she's older than me, soI assumed she'd settle for one, but when we got talking she dropped the bombshell that she is 4 months pg. I was devastated. Cried for 20 mins in the pool (I literally couldn't talk/look at her after that for a while) but I got over it and made polite chit-chat again by the end of the session. I think the surprise pg's can be the worst. Although the predictable ones are pretty rough too.

For all I know she has had IVF or something, but I don't know because I couldn't bring myself to congratulate her or ask anything more about it. Pathetic me.

I know it's stupid, but I escaped the toddler group so I could escape the pg announcements, so to have them then follow me around..!

Most days I am fine, but every now and again I get blindsided by something like that.