IVF help us become parents please
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Hi my name is nicola and my husband Steven have been trying for 3 years to become parents. I never in a million years think I'd be in this position and I feel awful having to ask people for help.
I was diagnosed with servere stage 4 endometriosis when I was 26 years old. After going back and forth to doctors and hospital appointments to try and work out what was wrong I eventually had a ultrasound that showed 2 cysts in my ovaries one was 7cm and the other was 4cm I had laproscopy surgery in 2013 to remove them and I had to go on prostap injections to make me go in a medically induced menopause for 3 months after to let everything heal. Everything was going well and dandy until 2014 and the awful pain came back again ultrasound showed another cyst this time it was 8.5 cm and growing quickly I had cancer marker blood tests done which came back high so they thought it could be ovarian cancer so once again I had laproscopy to remove it. Thankfully it wasn't cancer and instead they found 2 endometriomas and adhesions and a whole lot of endometriosis. I again was put on prostap for another 3 months. Poor Steven and my mam had to put up with my mood swings once again and I had to put up with being drenched in sweat morning noon and night. In 2016 I was booked in for my 3rd laproscopy to remove the endometriosis but by this time my ovaries were stuck together and the whole sorry mess was stuck to my bowel and all my organs were pushed to the left so I had to have a endo specialist and a bowel surgeon operate on me at the same time as it was major surgery. And once again I became I raging hormonal sweaty mess as I had to go back on prostap for 6 months this time. After 3 months of recovering I had a review with my surgeon who told me the devasting news that I only had a 2% chance of falling pregnant naturally and that I would need ivf indefinitely. I got told this with 7 medical students in the room and from a doctor with no personal skills. I burst in to tears and it felt as though my heart had been ripped out. Me and Steven have continued to try to get pregnant but with no luck. A week ago may 2018 we went to the ivf clinic to be told we don't qualify for ivf on the nhs, once again we are left devastated. The ivf doctor has said that ivf is what I need and the sooner the better but we don't qualify. We are both 33 years old and time is not on our side, along with all my medical history.
I would like to thank each and every person who finds it in their hearts to help us become parents, we have got all this love and we are longing to become mammy and daddy to our own little baby.
Thank you in advance to anyone who kindly donates or even just reads or shares our page.
Thank you
Xx xx
I was diagnosed with servere stage 4 endometriosis when I was 26 years old. After going back and forth to doctors and hospital appointments to try and work out what was wrong I eventually had a ultrasound that showed 2 cysts in my ovaries one was 7cm and the other was 4cm I had laproscopy surgery in 2013 to remove them and I had to go on prostap injections to make me go in a medically induced menopause for 3 months after to let everything heal. Everything was going well and dandy until 2014 and the awful pain came back again ultrasound showed another cyst this time it was 8.5 cm and growing quickly I had cancer marker blood tests done which came back high so they thought it could be ovarian cancer so once again I had laproscopy to remove it. Thankfully it wasn't cancer and instead they found 2 endometriomas and adhesions and a whole lot of endometriosis. I again was put on prostap for another 3 months. Poor Steven and my mam had to put up with my mood swings once again and I had to put up with being drenched in sweat morning noon and night. In 2016 I was booked in for my 3rd laproscopy to remove the endometriosis but by this time my ovaries were stuck together and the whole sorry mess was stuck to my bowel and all my organs were pushed to the left so I had to have a endo specialist and a bowel surgeon operate on me at the same time as it was major surgery. And once again I became I raging hormonal sweaty mess as I had to go back on prostap for 6 months this time. After 3 months of recovering I had a review with my surgeon who told me the devasting news that I only had a 2% chance of falling pregnant naturally and that I would need ivf indefinitely. I got told this with 7 medical students in the room and from a doctor with no personal skills. I burst in to tears and it felt as though my heart had been ripped out. Me and Steven have continued to try to get pregnant but with no luck. A week ago may 2018 we went to the ivf clinic to be told we don't qualify for ivf on the nhs, once again we are left devastated. The ivf doctor has said that ivf is what I need and the sooner the better but we don't qualify. We are both 33 years old and time is not on our side, along with all my medical history.
I would like to thank each and every person who finds it in their hearts to help us become parents, we have got all this love and we are longing to become mammy and daddy to our own little baby.
Thank you in advance to anyone who kindly donates or even just reads or shares our page.
Thank you
Xx xx
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