Update
Okay, after some mildly garbled information, here is the state of my reproductive health.
1) I have endometriosis. It sucks ass, and causes me a lot of pain. Getting surgery to remove some of it will help with the pain.
2) Due to the endometriosis, I'm effectively infertile. I don't ovulate. Surgery to correct the endometriosis will not correct this.
3) Drugs (clomid, clomid+metformin) CAN help this. BUT
4) My insurance doesn't cover any infertility treatments whatsoever.
So. We're paying for clomid out of pocket right now, because it's cheap enough that we can afford it. (We paid $9 for 5 pills of 50 mg.) It looks like metformin will be similarly cheap, and I only need 5 doses per month...so here's hoping.
Sweetie probably isn't the issue because he's gotten someone else preggers (long ago, granted)...but it means that we can save a bit of money not getting him checked for now. The doctor won't say it, but I'm still hoping that if I get surgery for endometriosis, it will turn up whether there are any other problems (i.e. blocked fallopian tubes) and can maybe be corrected in the same procedure. Treatment for endo is covered, I'm pretty sure...but practically the same procedure for infertility (laproscopic examination of the female parts) isn't. So fucked up.
Another possibility is that the clomid will work, but for some reason I won't be able to carry the child because of a problem with my uterus. Since I've never had laproscopy to determine for sure that I have endometriosis, it can't be a 100% diagnosis. So there's a chance, albeit much smaller, that my godawful cramps are due to uterine fibroids, which would prevent/interfere with implantation. Which puts us back in the same boat of needing surgery that we can't afford.
We're going to look into the costs of some of these procedures without insurance, I'm sure it's going to be insane, and see about saving up to get them without coverage. We have a cafeteria plan, I think I mentioned before, so we can take the necessary amount out pre-tax and get a break on income taxes at least.
I'm also still holding out hopes that pregnancy will happen, and will kick my body back into gear and "normalize" all these functions that are fucked up now. REALLY hoping, because I don't want to have to do this every time I want a kid. I guess the most important point is that we're not giving up, we're just not going to enjoy the process like we'd hoped. It's become clinical. (Take these pills on day 5-10 of your cycle, have sex on days 13, 15, and 17, and come back in a month.) I guess I can't complain too much if it works though. :\
1) I have endometriosis. It sucks ass, and causes me a lot of pain. Getting surgery to remove some of it will help with the pain.
2) Due to the endometriosis, I'm effectively infertile. I don't ovulate. Surgery to correct the endometriosis will not correct this.
3) Drugs (clomid, clomid+metformin) CAN help this. BUT
4) My insurance doesn't cover any infertility treatments whatsoever.
So. We're paying for clomid out of pocket right now, because it's cheap enough that we can afford it. (We paid $9 for 5 pills of 50 mg.) It looks like metformin will be similarly cheap, and I only need 5 doses per month...so here's hoping.
Sweetie probably isn't the issue because he's gotten someone else preggers (long ago, granted)...but it means that we can save a bit of money not getting him checked for now. The doctor won't say it, but I'm still hoping that if I get surgery for endometriosis, it will turn up whether there are any other problems (i.e. blocked fallopian tubes) and can maybe be corrected in the same procedure. Treatment for endo is covered, I'm pretty sure...but practically the same procedure for infertility (laproscopic examination of the female parts) isn't. So fucked up.
Another possibility is that the clomid will work, but for some reason I won't be able to carry the child because of a problem with my uterus. Since I've never had laproscopy to determine for sure that I have endometriosis, it can't be a 100% diagnosis. So there's a chance, albeit much smaller, that my godawful cramps are due to uterine fibroids, which would prevent/interfere with implantation. Which puts us back in the same boat of needing surgery that we can't afford.
We're going to look into the costs of some of these procedures without insurance, I'm sure it's going to be insane, and see about saving up to get them without coverage. We have a cafeteria plan, I think I mentioned before, so we can take the necessary amount out pre-tax and get a break on income taxes at least.
I'm also still holding out hopes that pregnancy will happen, and will kick my body back into gear and "normalize" all these functions that are fucked up now. REALLY hoping, because I don't want to have to do this every time I want a kid. I guess the most important point is that we're not giving up, we're just not going to enjoy the process like we'd hoped. It's become clinical. (Take these pills on day 5-10 of your cycle, have sex on days 13, 15, and 17, and come back in a month.) I guess I can't complain too much if it works though. :\