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Just diagnosed want to get pregnant

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Hi there, I have just been diagnosed with severe endometriosis, which, after 6 months off work with severe pain and fatigue and multiple trips to hospital for assumed appendicitis, comes as quite a relief! I am just thankful to have a name to justify the pain with if that makes sense!?

Anyway, I got married in August....what a fun first 6 months of marriage :( and my husband and I are quite keen to start a family soon, I'm 27 and he is 30 so we feel we are at the right point to try to start a family.

The diagnosis has filled me with quite a bit of fear about not being able to get pregnant, I'm not seeing my consultant (who is amazing) for another 5 weeks, he came in after doing the diagnostic laparoscopy and although I was quite dozey at this point said he found a significant amount of endo and said he could see why I have been in so much pain...that's all the info we have at the moment, I'm sure he will go through options. But I was just wondering if anyone has advice about treatments and getting pregnant? Just feeling quite anxious about it all at the moment, 5 weeks feels like a lifetime away!

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Hi there,

sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I got diagnosed with Endo in December 2013 after trying to conceive for over a year and after suffering with severe pain for almost 18 years!!

It really depends if your fallopian tubes have been affected by the Endo. Basically you need to find out if your tubes are blocked or not.

Mine are unfortunately blocked :-( so we got put onto the IVF waiting list and I have just been through my first cycle where I did get pregnant but lost the pregnancy just days later!

There are ladies with Endometriosis that get pregnant and others like myself that need IVF and with IVF there is no guarantee that it works. But there is always hope.

I really hope for you that you will get pregnant without any problems. There are lots of ladies on here that got pregnant and gave birth to healthy babies without too many problems.

Good luck & all the best :-)

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Differpie

Hiya sorry to hear about you finding out about having endo :( but my story is I found to have extensive endo and got it removed and 11 weeks later I concived. You are most fetile after a lap. Fingers crossed for you 🙏xxx

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Congratulations! I had my lap in dec and am TTC now - do you know how long you are more fertile for? And how quickly endo can reoccur? x

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katybee

You have already had some great advice here - I just want to reassure you that your diagnosis will not necessarily prevent you getting pregnant. I was diagnosed in 2010 and I had my little boy in 2013. I fell pregnant really quickly (a couple of months after we started trying and the first month that I was tracking ovulation and used a sperm friendly lubricant - preseed).... so as long as you become very familiar with your cycle etc, there is hope! Good luck.

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