Is hysteroscopy needed?

[Siothew12]

Hey all

I’m at a private clinic in London and they said they usually want patients to do a hysteroscopy on first week of stims prior to ivf. I’m not sure about whether to have this done or not. My situation is I’ve had probably at least 20 ultrasounds, one mri and one laparoscopy surgery to remove my left tube (endo) within the past 4 months. None of my scans have ever shown any problems with my uterus and indeed my previous surgeon has confirmed no adenomyosis. I’ve never had doctor have concerns about my uterus and you think with all those scans, surgery etc that they would’ve picked up on something if there was a problem.

What is everyone else’s experience with hysteroscopys? I’m stuck on whether to have one or not. It’s quite expensive and I’m not sure I want to put myself through it when I can’t see any reasons that me personally would need to have it.

Thank you!

[Poop84]

not had this. I’ve heard of a endo scratch though.

Out of curiosity how much is a hysterscopy?

[Siothew12 in reply to Poop84]

Its £1400 at my clinic x

[K8dferXdder]

no experience but just thought whether they can write you a letter or something that they suspected a polyp lets say and you have it done through private medical insurance if you have one?

[Lamagarden]

I had one during my investigations prior to starting IVF as they thought I had a fibroid. It turned out it wasn’t a fibroid but likely adenomyosis. Had an MRI after to confirm and then was able to begin treatment. The surgery itself was fine, I was told a two week recovery but was fine after a day or two. Can they explain why they want to do it? Best of luck, whatever you do x

[Blueberry211]

Please read my previous post on hysteroscopy. I found a septum ( which was never picked up by mri and hundreds of ultrasound and hysterosalpingography)

[JulseyP]

Aparantly hysteroscopy used to be routine as part of fertility work up but rarely found anything so is not usually done now.

Having said that when I finally persuaded someone to do a hyteroscopy they found I had such severe scarring IVF would be unlikely to work and if it did I would most likely miscarry.

We don't know if I developed the scarring after my c section (very complicated pregnancy). I suspect though that I have had it for 8 years (when my periods stopped) and had they done a routine hysteroscopy at the start of my journey it would have saved me 5 years of fertility treatment, miscarriage, severe pregnancy complications and about £20,000.