The Fralick Family

I'm going to the hospital today for another hysterosalpingogram.  It is not fun, but not the most awful thing I can think of.  A dye will be injected into my fallopian tubes and uterus and x-rays will be taken.  I have had this done twice before, so it's nothing new to me but still nothing I look forward to.  These xrays will show if my tube is a hydrosalpinx (fancy term for fluid filled).  This would have most likely been caused by scarring from the surgery I had on it in 2009. 

When doing an IVF, there is no use for your fallopian tubes because you are bypassing them with the process.  However, in some cases, if a tube is fluid filled that fluid may leak out and either wash away the implanted embryos or may be toxic to them.  IF this is the case with me, I will most likely need to have surgery to completely remove the tube.  It's a good thing I don't have any emotional attachment to this thing!  My Dr said it has probably been deformed since childhood (birth, maybe?), I've always had messed up cycles, and it may be the cause for 3 failed IVF's....get that sucker out of there!! 

A part of me is really hoping that this tube is the problem.  This is the ONLY thing that the Dr's can think of as to why none of my IVF's have worked.  No other solutions.  So, yeah, I'd like an answer.  On the other hand, who really wants something to be wrong with them?  Ugh.

Stay tuned for a little ditty about why I feel the IVF billing at Washington University in St Louis is a complete scam!  I really should get over this, but I can't!  After you read it, you'll have to let me know what you think!