A little bit of hope.

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to check in and report what I found out at my second RE

appointment today. However first I want to say,

Kristie, congratulations on your pregnancy! You truly must have a

miracle child to have endured so much already. I can't believe what

your doctors did.

V., I am so sorry to hear about your surgery. I can only imagine

how devasted you must feel. I agree that it is very important to find

an RE to try to straighten things out for you.

Ute. Your story is so moving and inspiring. Congratulations on the

birth of your son. Its so nice to hear success stories.

Tina, good luck tommorrow. I hope and pray that all will go well for

you.

This second RE seems to be a little more hopefully for me than the RE I

visited last week. Thanks to Poly's questions about my lining, I was

better able to ask questions about the lining and whether my cavity is

open. Basically, he says you can't tell from the ultrasound if the

cavity is open, but with a 4mm lining (which is not great but he's seen

worse) he seems to think I could have a partial opening. He did another

ultrasound and will schedule me for another HSP with a smaller catheder

after my next cycle. This will probabley be in about a month. If the

cavity is totally closed - my chances are not good at all and surgery

would probabley not be recommended because of the risks. If my cavity

is only slightly blocked at the bottom (preventing the dye to enter

during previous HSP) then I'll probabley schedule the surgery. If he

can't get the dye in with the smaller catheder, then I don't know.

Anyway, some answers to questions.

1. I asked about the interceed. He has not used it and he explained

how its been used outside uterus and not within. I told him about Dr.

Berger and he said if I end up with surgery, he would look into it

more. He says it must be experimental and would want to know how ofter

Dr. Berger has used at and at what success rate and if there is an

increased risk of infection.

2. He likes the balloon and says the optimum time is 5-7 days. He says

with antibiotics and estrogen, the lining should be able to grow in

enough during that time not to stick to itself. Obviously this is not

always the case as I had that exact thing with my last surgery.

Anyway, he said he would be concerned leaving the balloon in over 7

days as a possible risk of infection. He prefers balloon to IUD.

3. Viagra. He's seen it used experimentally for IVF to increase the

lining, but has not seen it used with Asherman's. He also said some of

the successes with Viagra may be attributable to some other treatments

that were used along with the Viagra. He also says that if you have no

lining, then Viagra won't help.

4. With regard to not having periods, if your lining is not growing,

then there is no risk from not having periods. However, if your lining

is growing but there is a constriction blocking the opening of the

uterus so that blood can't get out, then the blood could back up in the

uterus and spill out the tubes into the pelvic cavity. I think someone

mentioned this before, in such a case over a long period of time you

could develop endometriosis. It seems if your not having periods or

having light periods its important to know why.

That's all I found out. I'll keep you posted of my progress.

Jody