#08 Finding Answers in Belgium: Dysmorphic Uterus, Hormone Injections & Sperm Quality

06/27/23 • 41 min

Ever since we started struggling to conceive, I have had the feeling something is not right. Maybe it's the yoga keeping me in touch with my body, maybe it's all the journalling and self-reflection. Maybe it's just gut instinct. But no matter that it was, we finally got the answers we have been looking for after a visit to a fertility clinic in Belgium.

With any diagnosis, it can be a lot to process. So I chatted with my long-time friend and fertility midwife Tor Chivers about our recent tests, procedures and results. Together we unpack the blood tests, MRI and hysteroscopy procedures that brought us to the diagnosis that helps to explain the reason I have struggled to fall (and stay) pregnant. Also, my husband learns his sperm quality has been low, another important reminder that in fertility, it really is 50/50!

The bumps in the road are not over for us. The treatment begins and that will bring its own set of challenges. But, we feel eternally grateful to have answers knowing so many people out there are still searching for theirs. If this is you, I'm sending so much love, and urge you to keep pushing your healthcare providers to look deeper.

Anna

If you would like to learn more about any of the discussed topics, I have found the following links particularly helpful:

AMH

https://www.littleangelivf.com/blog/fertility/amh-test-normal-range-and-amh-levels/

Dysmorphic (T-shaped) uterus and my up-coming metroplasty

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34319061/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31146029/

Decapeptyl injections

https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/files/pil.963.pdf

https://www.news-medical.net/drugs/Decapeptyl.aspx

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