Adhesions and possible infertility???
From: Bethany (soccerfem3@yahoo.com)
Mon Jul 21 20:35:40 2008
To start off, I'll give you a brief bit of my history (or as brief as I
can put it). I am now 25 years old. When I was just a year old, I had
abdominal surgery for an intestinal volvulus, which is where the bowels
twist, and they twist around eachother. My bowels were re-arranged from
the surgery, so much so, that they had to remove my appendix because it
ended up in my left upper abdomen (instead of the right lower abdomen,
where it should be). My large bowels are located on the left half of my
abdomen and my small bowels on the right. I never had any problems
growing up, until I was 18 years old, when I had my first bowel
obstruction. This was in January of 2002. In total, I've been
hospitalized with 4 bowel obstructions since January of '02. In between
hospitalizations, I have what I can only describe as
"mini-obstructions". Its the same quality of pain and same location, it
just never progresses enough for me to go to the ER. My GI doc suggests
that adhesions are to blame for my obstructions.
I'm now 25 years old and am trying to get pregnant with my husband of
almost 2 years. I've been trying to conceive since December of 2007.
After only 3 cycles of trying to conceive, I was put on Clomid, after it
was determined that I was not ovulating. The majority of women who get
put on clomid become pregnant within 3 cycles of Clomid. I'm now on my
4th, expecting my period any day now, as I don't think I'm pregnant. I
have a laparoscopic surgery scheduled for September 23rd, because my OB
said that I have a 50/50 chance of having adhesions in my reproductive
tract, which could be displacing my ovaries.
My question is.. is there anybody out there who has had a similar
problem with adhesions and trying to get pregnant? I really don't have
much hope for getting pregnant before my laparoscopy. I get these
crampy type pains in my pelvic area, right on the inside of my hips,
which I suspect to be adhesions. So, I just don't know...
Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.