WOOOOHOOOO I don't have to have surgery!

May 11, 2004

I had my consultation with Dr. Batzofin at SIRM-NYC yesterday

and If you couldn't tell by my subject line, I don't have to have

surgery. Dr. B examined me, with too big a speculum, and

fingers, and u/s and came to the conclusion that I don't need the

Strassman Metroplasty surgery he thought was a possibility,

and that basically I have two normal size uteri. I guess I just have

an extra one. So, he wants to do immune testing (fine with me)

and a sono-hystogram (not thrilled about that one but whatever)

and some testing on dh's swimmers, and then we are off and

stimming. It looks like I'll qualify (as long as the two tests come

back okay. Hmmm) for their outcome based plan (obp). So, that

pretty much sums it up. DH and I are talking about when to do it. I

can get in on the June cycle, and it looks like we'll be shooting for

that one. Yikes! Exciting and scary all at the same time.

I expressed concerns about being put on Lupron, and about that

they insist on doing icsi and his response was for me to not

sweat the small stuff. Well, it's not small stuff to me if it affects

the health of me and my child. On our first ivf, we retrieved 8 eggs

and 7 fertilized. Seems to me there's no reason to worry about

icsi. Ugh. This needs to be easy but just never is.

So I thought I'd share that with you ladies since I know you all

understand a bit too well. Do you think there's anything else I

need to consider having done before continuing on with trying

again? Thanks in advance for any input.

Baby dust to all.

Kris

May 12, 2004

>>>and came to the conclusion that I don't need the

> Strassman Metroplasty surgery he thought was a possibility,

> and that basically I have two normal size uteri.

Yeah Dr. B!! Glad that he came to this conclusion. Great news that

both uteri are a good size. Shouldn't matter which side gets pg.

About doing the icsi...back when we were ttc I was convinced that the

latest inj/iui cycle didn't work and my RE agreed to let us move onto

IVF even though he thought that eventually we would get pg w/ inj.

Anyway, their lab always does icsi with every ivf candidate. Their

practice felt that it just removed yet another barrier to worry

about. And since it may take a few cycles of ivf before a couple

learns that there is a penetration issue, why not just do it for

everyone. I thought that was a good practice. Even though you have

a fertilization rate, is there a particular concern about having the

icsi done? Much to our surprise the last inj cycle did work so we

never did the ivf.

Yes, it is kinda scary, but in an exciting suspenseful kinda way.

Wishing you tons of babydust,

Sara

SU resected x2

May 12, 2004