Re: Help..any advice please from a worried husband
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Jul 31 11:59:41 2008
This is a good support board for her, and there's a section for men, I
think
http://erc.activeboard.com/
At Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Russell wrote:
>
>Hi. I have been away from this site for a long while. After my wife
>suffering with severe endo for many years and her tubes closing we were
>blessed with a baby girl through IVF first time against many many odds.
>She has just had her second birthday and the endo reared its ugly head
>again over the past 6 months and what seems more severe than before.
>We had another go at IVF implantation which failed late last year and
>just had another course of IVF which was successful, especially only
>after producing 2 embryos. The cruelty is that on our 6 week scan there
>was no egg sack present and it looks like it is an ectopic pregancy
>which has to be surgically removed. If this isn't bad enough, we know
>the symptom of endo will return shorlty afterwards. We discussed and
>hystorectomy prior to this course of IVF if it did not work. As I am
>sure many of you will agree it is a mentally and physically stressful
>time for us both. I don't want to see my wife suffer any more and I
>dont want my little girl to see her mum so ill and my feelings are is
>that I dont want any more IVF, but rather my wife to have a hysterectomy
>so we can get on with life a little. My wife is 37. I would be
>grateful for any experiences of feed back on those women who have had a
>hysterectomy as a result of the endo and how they find it now. I have
>read mixed reports.
>Thanks again, and I wish all of you well for many of you I know you must
>suffer greatly on a daily basis.
>Russell
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