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Polycystic disease...hope I spelled it right
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 608663" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>My daughter went through something very similar. She married when she was 26 and a few years later when they tried to have a child, nothing happened. She kept hoping and put off going to the doctor and when she finally did, he didn't do her much good. She went to her regular gyn who put her on medication to encourage ovulation and after six months, still nothing happened. I won't say this doctor was old or behind the times but he was the same OB who delivered her husband thirty years before. </p><p></p><p>Finally she went to a fertility specialist. The first thing they did was to check sister in law out to rule out any problems with him ... before they did any invasive procedures on her. He was fine. They then did several tests on her and quickly found the problem. Both of her fallopian tubes were blocked with scar tissue and debris from the ovarian cysts she had as a teenager. And she also had endometrial tissue around her ovaries and in her fallopian tubes even though she had felt no symptoms of endometriosis. She ended up having surgery. One tube was too badly blocked and damaged to be salvaged and the doctor tied that one off because it could have caused an ectopic pregnancy. But he was able to clear the other tube and get rid of the endometrial tissue surrounding her ovaries. A few weeks later she went back in for her recheck and found out that she was pregnant already! And at the age of 33 she gave birth to my beautiful little grandson who is now 4-1/2!</p><p></p><p>She so regrets now that she wasted so much time in getting help. She never would have had a child if she had just kept waiting and hoping. And it may not be the case with all gyn doctors but she knows now that she completely wasted the time she spent taking the various drugs that this one gave her. Turns out she was ovulating just fine but with both of her tubes completely blocked and the endometrial tissue surrounding her ovaries, nothing would have ever happened. The tests and surgery were expensive and her medical insurance didn't cover "fertility treatments". But her doctors submitted it as treatment for the endometriosis and the insurance paid for almost all of it! So there are ways around it. I hope your daughter goes to a specialist soon and that things start rolling for her too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 608663, member: 1883"] My daughter went through something very similar. She married when she was 26 and a few years later when they tried to have a child, nothing happened. She kept hoping and put off going to the doctor and when she finally did, he didn't do her much good. She went to her regular gyn who put her on medication to encourage ovulation and after six months, still nothing happened. I won't say this doctor was old or behind the times but he was the same OB who delivered her husband thirty years before. Finally she went to a fertility specialist. The first thing they did was to check sister in law out to rule out any problems with him ... before they did any invasive procedures on her. He was fine. They then did several tests on her and quickly found the problem. Both of her fallopian tubes were blocked with scar tissue and debris from the ovarian cysts she had as a teenager. And she also had endometrial tissue around her ovaries and in her fallopian tubes even though she had felt no symptoms of endometriosis. She ended up having surgery. One tube was too badly blocked and damaged to be salvaged and the doctor tied that one off because it could have caused an ectopic pregnancy. But he was able to clear the other tube and get rid of the endometrial tissue surrounding her ovaries. A few weeks later she went back in for her recheck and found out that she was pregnant already! And at the age of 33 she gave birth to my beautiful little grandson who is now 4-1/2! She so regrets now that she wasted so much time in getting help. She never would have had a child if she had just kept waiting and hoping. And it may not be the case with all gyn doctors but she knows now that she completely wasted the time she spent taking the various drugs that this one gave her. Turns out she was ovulating just fine but with both of her tubes completely blocked and the endometrial tissue surrounding her ovaries, nothing would have ever happened. The tests and surgery were expensive and her medical insurance didn't cover "fertility treatments". But her doctors submitted it as treatment for the endometriosis and the insurance paid for almost all of it! So there are ways around it. I hope your daughter goes to a specialist soon and that things start rolling for her too. [/QUOTE]
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