Spoke to Dr. Valle about my missing period

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Hello All: Well, as you know I am scheduled for my LAP/HYST on

Thursday which was " supposed to be " immediately after my period.

Well, today is Day 40 and still no period despite period-like

symptoms last week and cramping as well....(and a negative pregnancy

test)so I'm pretty sure I have scarred again! WHY?!!

I discussed this with Dr. Valle and he said that if I was having

" regular " periods he would postpone the surgery until after I had one

because any significant build-up of endometrium would make it hard

for him to see during surgery.....

But after discussing it we decided to go-ahead on Thursday seeing as

March was my first " real " period (other than spotting) I had had

since October of last year so we don't yet know whether my cycles are

regular or what " regular " even is for me. Also, seeing as it has now

been 40 days since my last cycle and I had " cyclic pain " last week

this indicates it is possible that I " back bled " then if my cervix is

indeed scarred closed again.

We didn't discuss this, but I have been thinking that whether I am

scarred again or not doesn't really matter in terms of surgery

because either way I won't have much endometrium " build-up " . If I am

scarred again and thus " back bled " last week I will have no

significant endometrium on Thursday OR, if I never ovulated this

month for some reason I STILL would not have any real significant

endometrium because without the " progesterone trigger " of ovulation

the endometrium doesn't get all " fluffy " and engorged as we have

discussed before. So either way I don't think this will be a

hinderance to surgery, at least I hope not and Dr. Valle didn't seem

to worried about it.

So, we are going ahead on Thursday with the LAP/HYST and we'll see

what he finds. If I do start a period between now and Thursday I am

supposed to let him know. We will also do another pregnancy test

beforehand just to be sure (although at this point it would be

nothing less than immaculate conception!)

I also discussed with him the " saline infusion " problem my last

doctor was concerned about during surgery and Dr. Valle once again

said he couldn't understand why he had told me that saying that

saline was very safe and that the risk of saline intoxication was

almost nill. He did mention that there were other methods that he

used as well so I'm still not sure what he will use on me, we'll find

out on Thursday I guess.

That's all the update I have for now. Wish Thursday would hurry-up

and get here!

Gwen