Ovarian drilling - please advise

[ALT76]

For those of you who have had ovarian drilling, if you could answer the following I'd greatly appreciate it!

1 - Was that what enabled you to conceive?

2 - How long ago did you have it done and have you had any problems with pain from adhesions forming on the ovaries?

3 - How long did it regulate you after the drilling was done or did you get pregnant right away?

I have had good response to clomid and gonadotropins, but next week I will be scheduling my 3rd surgery in the past year and a half (for endometriosis) and am considering the drilling so I don't have to go to such measures to conceive. I'm not sure I've got another IVF or IUI cycle in me. I've been pregnant 4 times but all were chemical pregnancies that ended in very early miscarriages. I'm thinking this may help my egg quality/hormone situation and therefore increase my chances of success. At least then I could try on my own if I'm going to have the surgery anyway. I am supposed to get a hysterectomy due to my pain from adenomyosis, but I'm delaying it for another couple of tries for a baby. Just wondered if it would be worth it.

Thanks!
-amy

[andrea412]

May I know where you have done ovarian drilling. I am also in the same boat but do not know where to go. Also does age matters?

Thanks in advance
Andrea

[Nutkin]

Hi,

Am sorry to hear about your miscarriage and can totally empathise with you with regards to how much you can take before calling it a day.

I had the drilling done back in 2001 and it made no difference at all, at the time I was very over weight and did no excise what so ever and hoped I would fall pregnant….no such luck!

In early June 2008 I had it done again, this time I was 4 stone lighter and do exercise 4 times a week as I got my butt into a gym and got a trainer to help me which I needed, the pain was not too bad and had a week off work and then about  couple of week later I was back to normal and got my monthly shortly after and were back to 29 days spot on there for after, a month later I found out I was pregnant which was unplanned as I had split up from my long term, I just had my son 12 weeks ago who came early.

Am not saying it can work for everybody, personally for me it did and I don’t have PCOS  any more, as the weight loss/drilling and burning the cysts off helped a lot,  1 failed cycle of IVF,2 miscarriages and finally I have my son 9 yrs later, I truly believe mother nature works in different ways.

[ALT76]

I'm so sorry it didn't work - but at least it did work in the sense that you are getting your period on your own!  It's still early - there is still plenty of time for it to work!  Thanks for the input and best of luck to you!

[Milee]

AF just showed up today so apparently I am not prego, but at least I had a period on my own again, which is more than I could say before I got the drilling. Now I at least have an idea of how many days it will be before I can expect the next one.

[Milee]

I had ovarian drilling on the 28th of April 2009.  Being that it was so recent, I can't answer all of your questions, but I can say that I know it has helped me.  I started my first period on my own without medication 2 days after the procedure, and I have lately been experiencing every symptom of pregnancy in the book.  I have not confirmed that I am pregnant yet, but I do know that my hormones are doing something different.  Of course I hope that I am pregnant but even if I start my period on my own I will be happy because that means that maybe I will be "normal" again...even if it is just for a little while.  

About the surgery, I thought it was a piece of cake.  I had the surgery done on Tuesday and was up and about with not problems by Friday.  I am having no associated pain now.  Let me know if you have any other questions.  I highly recommend ovarian drilling!