Once again we rewind back to 2009 when I was told I would be having surgery, I was only 24 at the time and not in a relationship but like many people I knew that someday I would want to start my own family. Of course I had no choice about surgery as my symptoms had not improved much since starting treatment.

There were many questions I should have been asking but in all honestly I don’t think I realised just how serious this surgery was, having said that the one thing that I did have a burning desire to ask was ‘Will this surgery have any affect on my fertility?’ 

I don’t know why I asked that or what made me think there would be any repercussions to fertility but I just did and of course I was told there were no risks to my fertility at all because they were not operating in the reproductive area.

I took that for gospel because after all I knew very little about surgery and was really going by the information they were giving me.

Fast forward to 2013 I’m now in a relationship and have been trying to conceive for almost a year when in August I unexpectedly caught pregnant, I say unexpectedly because by this time I had partly lost belief that it was going to happen and was actually in the process of having blood tests to check my hormone levels.

As you may imagine we were very excited and never considered the possibility of anything going wrong, sadly however after a break in during the night (we were being broken into not doing the robbery lol) which resulted in an altercation the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage…..we were devastated and nobody could tell us the root cause although my personal opinion is that it was triggered by stress.

So we were back to a broken square 1, this time I was doing everything, taking fertility supplements, keeping check of my cycles, checking my temperature if you’ve ever actively tried to conceive you know what I’m talking about (the struggle is real!) 

Again more time went by and still no success and at some point I went for a dye test to check my tubes for any blockages this didn’t reveal any issues and again didn’t give any insight as to why I was not conceiving.

Then in February 2014 (I may not be spot on with the dates) I became quite ill whilst abroad and ended up in hospital, I was given antibiotics but once I returned to the UK I became more unwell and again had to be rushed to hospital where they found I had an abscess and a whole in the bowel this meant more surgery!

because I had a general surgeon it was agreed that he would take a look at my ovaries whilst performing my surgery….what he discovered was that my tubes had actually been fused to the lining of my abdomen by adhesion (bands of scar tissue) during the surgery he removed the adhesion so that the tubes when no longer attached to the abdomen and we were again hopeful that our chances of conception were now more likely.

So that brings us to 2019 (skipping a few details) still no luck (but with hopes that we may be told that I can still actually conceive naturally) we went to see Dr Christian yes that’s right we are going to be on television (cringe!) Dr Christians special clinics to be exact! and this is what I was told…..lol don’t be daft I’m not going to tell you that! if you want to know you’re going to have to watch our episode which airs Monday 4th March 10pm on W channel and repeats on Tuesday at 8pm.

I’m really looking forward to watching it myself as I don’t really know what footage they will use and to be honest everyone’s story on the show has been interesting.

Ok right that’s enough of my wittering on for now! at some point I will make a post about my experience going on the show but for now thank you for reading (assuming you  made it this far!)

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Much Love

Gladys & I