Laparoscopy here I come!

Here's the report from our appointment with Dr.R yesterday morning about a possible laparoscopy: it's on. (Am I actually happy to be undergoing surgery even if minor? My, how your world turns upside down with IF.....)

Basically, his philosophy was: the cyst (that is, the persistent cyst on my right ovary that's been hanging around since last August albeit getting smaller very gradually) may or may not be an endometrioma, but at this point, he thought it was worth the minor risks of surgery to get in there, do away with the cyst and see if I have any endometriosis that might have been hampering fertility. His thought was that either way: cyst or no cyst, endometriosis or no, we'll at least have more information - even if just information that rules our endometriosis or an ovarian cyst as a factor. Of course, the age thing reared its ugly head again here: he said if I were 30 or even 33 he would probably put off the lap, but at my age, he wanted to be aggressive in ruling out anything that could possibly be keeping me from getting pregnant (oh, how that biological clock keeps ticking!)

Next step: I call them on next cycle day 1 to schedule surgery (which would take place within two weeks likely of cycle start).

Now, if I can only get this cycle to move on. Still no sign of ovulation (temp trend or OPK) so I'm starting to think this might be one of those crazy long cycles (my longest was 38 days over holiday season 2008 which included our early Jan 2009 wedding and honeymoon last January! I guess some of that was stressful?!?)

I'm almost hoping at this point that I just don't ovulate and this cycle gives up and ends quickly so we can get on with it. It's all so weird how excited I am about this. I guess it's more "relying on science" thinking and hoping that if we just do something more we'll "fix it" and be successful. I feel like I should know better: I thought just doing a couple of rounds of IVF would "fix it" an it clearly hasn't worked. (at least yet)

Would be interested in any others' experience with a lap. Painful? I usually tolerate pain and anesthesia pretty well so I'm not really worried. They said there was likely to be discomfort with the belly-button area incision for a few weeks. I'm thinking pants/shorts waistbands might be kind of annoying for a little while.

Oh and in the course of prep'ing for our visit yesterday I was going back over our medical records from the fertility clinic and thought next post I'd go back in time and list out the protocols/drugs for my 3 IVF cycles. I know when I was first getting started with all of this I googled like crazy before I was given a tentative meds schedule because I wanted to know what a schedule looked like. So, am posting my intention to do that here so I'll make sure and do it!