Nothing can be easy...not even on my birthday!

Well...today I had my baseline ultrasound before starting birth control for IVF. I went in because I haven't had a period yet since our IUI in January, and they were going to give me medicine to induce it, but they needed to make sure there were no left over cysts from last month's meds. Thank goodness for no cysts this time (yea!) BUT since my body can't do ANYTHING easily, we have another bump in the road to clear.

Dr. H was doing my u/s and first checks my endometrial lining. It was still much thicker than it should've been at this stage (hence the no period yet) then he starts looking at my ovaries. The first one is clear of cysts, but there was a strange tissue line extending from the ovary to my lining. He wasn't quite sure what to make of it at first, because I haven't had anything like this in the past. So he checked the other ovary and everything looked great there. He could see where I ovulated the eggs last month for our IUI and said the broken down follicles looked great and just as they should after ovulating. Then he moved the wand back to the first ovary. The tissue line was still there. He looked from several different angles, and it never went away.

He told me he's seen this in other patients, but never in me before, so it definitely surprised him. He printed out the u/s pictures and continued to study them. He told me that he wanted to do one more urine pregnancy test, on the off chance that my lining hadn't shed due to pregnancy. He said the chance was very slim that it would be positive, but he needed to know for sure before giving me meds to induce a period. At this point I thought "that would be the best freakin birthday present EVER!" Of course the test was negative, I didn't really think there was the slightest bit of hope there. Then he explained that he didn't know if this is something I develop every cycle between ovulation and menstruation, or if it is a fluke thing this time. He wants me to take the medicine to induce a period and schedule another u/s as soon as it comes to check whether or not the "line" is still there. If it isn't, then we're clear and no big deal. If it is, then he said he wants to do a hysteroscopy (click here for more info) to go in, look at it more closely, and remove it.

Since we are scheduled for IVF in April I asked if this hiccup was going to push it back, and throw off the schedule, and he said it won't. We found it early enough, that even if he has to do the hysteroscopy, there is still plenty of time before I start stimulation meds, that it won't hurt anything (whew!)

That was a lot of info to take in before 9am today! Now it's on to Parent/Teacher Conferences at school. My 29th birthday is definitely one for the record books already, and it's only 11:00!