Three options..

[Mayaudrey]

So after having a laparoscopy and finding out about my frozen pelvis with adhesions my consultant is mostly concerned about my ovaries being adhered to my pelvic wall for egg collection she has given us three options for our next cycle.

1. Surgery to remove the adhesions. She said there is no gaurentee they would be able to remove them. My local hospital backed out of this option and decided it may be to much. She said there is also a risk I could damage my already very low amh level.

2. We go ahead and see what happens and abandon the cycle if my ovaries can't be accessed. They were accessed last time but I heommoraged after egg collection and had to be rushed back in to theatre. She said there is an option of going in through pelvis wall all though still risky with the adhesions.

3. We use a donor and avoid the area all together.

I realise me and my husband have a lot of thinking to do about all three but any advice from any ladies who have encountered any thing similar would be greatly appreciated nothing is straight forward is it! Xx

[Sprinkles86]

Hi Maya I went through something similar with our first cycle. I have severe endo which meant my left ovary couldn't be accessed (and that's after an op only six months prior to remove a lot of it!!) thankfully we were able to get 9 eggs from the right side, 6 of which were mature. They said had they not got so many from the right side they would have had to explore other options. Are both of your ovaries affected? This is a big decision to make... if it were me and it was both sides affected, I'd try and do the cycle with egg collection via pelvic wall if needed, and then if it was unsuccessful have the surgery. Whichever option you pick you'll still question whether you've done the right thing so just do what feels right. Thinking of you xxxx

[Mayaudrey in reply to Sprinkles86]

Yes unfortunately it's both of them. We did have a successful egg collection last may were I got eight eggs. I think they must have hit something then though and I was rushed back into theatre after heommoraging. We hadn't had the laparoscopy then though and they weren't aware of the scar tissue. I'm tempted to go in the side wall and see what happens.... It's scary though isn't It! Xxx

[Sprinkles86 in reply to Mayaudrey]

Very scary! I was in an incredible amount of pain when the left side eggs began to release on their own (as they hadn't been collected). As if it's not bad enough having to go through IVF.... some days I see no light at the end of the tunnel, others I could take on the world haha! Best wishes for whatever you decide lovely xxxx

[Mayaudrey in reply to Sprinkles86]

Thankyou. Gosh that does sound painful. Did you feel frustrated that they weren't able to collect them? I know it's a really tough decision sometimes I feel like it's impossible but I try my best to keep going aswell. Like you said think we have good and bad day ha xxxx

[DianeArnold in reply to Mayaudrey]

Hi Mayaudrey. All sounds horrific for you, but I would gain some consolation that your specialist would have learned much about you during that very eventful procedure! I'm sure he/she would take extra care with you should you decide to try with your own eggs again. So much to think about, but I wish you huge success with whatever you do decide. Thinking of you. Diane

[Sprinkles86 in reply to Mayaudrey]

Yes it was a bit frustrating, especially as it cost so much to do the treatment... we have two frozen and can't help but think there may have been more had they been able to get at the left side.... good luck with whatever you decide to do lovely xx

[72cloud9]

Oh gosh I don't envy u such a difficult choice in what is already a complex journey for us all struggling with fertility.hope some ladies on here may have some experience to advise u & make the choice a bit easier xxx

[bfrida]

It's crazy, I even don't know what to advice you. We failed 4 cycles of ivf and now we are about to start one more time but with the de, I know, it's a bit differ from the regular ivf but we want to have a baby. so, to my mind, don't risk, it would be better if you use the donor,. The feeling will be dubious, at first, I didn't wanted to have a baby with donor's genes but times of considerations overcome my attitude, we have no choice. so here we are.

wish you all the best, everything will be ok

[Mayaudrey]

Thankyou so much for your advice we are definitely thinking about the donor option as well. I have considered it in the past with having such a low amh. The more I think about it the more I realise like you said it is the baby that's important not the genetics. I know we go back a week on Tuesday to get more advice from the doctor and hopefully make a decision. Xxx

[Mayaudrey]

Thankyou so much ladies we have decided to try and proceed one more time with my eggs (consultant said as long as we are aware there is a high risk of cancellation) but she thinks as we are both young at 28 it's important we try to give ourselves closure as well. If it doesn't succeed or is cancelled we will be moving on to donor xxxx

[Hidden in reply to Mayaudrey]

We only had a 10% chance on last cycle but still tried so we could close that door and move forward using DE with no regrets xx

[Mayaudrey in reply to Hidden]

That's what the consultant told us. She said we need closure. We both agreed to give it a go even though there is very high chance she said it might not even go to egg collection xxxx

[Hidden in reply to Mayaudrey]

It's defo worth a try though and if it doesn't work like ours didn't we found it easier to move on knowing we had tried x