Jenn's Journal

I'm really sorry to here of your situation. I'm 40 today and I was on a race against time to get my tubule reversal done which I did in Clearwater/St.petersburg Florida, because it was way less expensive than IV. and Dr.'s refused to do reversals up here in WI. because there are just too many tubule pregnancies that result from them. My GYN Dr. begged me not to and told me some reasons why he stopped doing them. But he said if I was set on it to really check out the Dr. that would be doing the surgery. Which I did and he was in the top 400 Endocrinologists in the country. I went ahead with the surgery on Nov.4th 2005 and before going in The Dr. told me with my age and even though I don't smoke or drink and I'm in good shape the statistics for my age group becoming pregnant were only around 60-70% chance of getting pregnant. After surgery he told us that My surgery was picture perfect, and I had plenty of tube in good condition to work with and everything looked very very good and he raised my chances of getting pregnant to 85-90% chance. Then he told us we should plan on having a baby very soon. We were told to wait 2 months so I could heal and I could have a successful menstrual cycle. I got one period and then next time around I got pregnant we were thrilled and cried (I have 2 grown girls, my husband has no children and has really desired a child ever since we got together) The Endocrinologist said that as soon as I got missed my period to get an ultrasound to make sure it's not in the tube. S I wasn't going to get to excited until the ultrasound the next day, yeh right! Well that night Feb. 15th that I told my husband at around 5:30p.m. I started to get strange pains in my somewhat like bad menstrual pains but more in the back and when I sat down it felt like a knife was inside me and so we made a trip to the E.R. and got that ultrasound a few hours sooner then expected. They found what they call a ring of fire around one of my fallopian tubes and that wasn't good; it either was an infection or a tubule pregnancy. So they took my blood and the pregnancy hormone was only 300 it should be in the 1,000's but to get my blood tested again the day after next and if it's doubled or tripled then things would be looking up but if the numbers were going down or only going up a little then that would mean either the pregnancy was ending or growing slowly in my tube. Well that's what was happening the next day at 4:00P.M. my pain was so bad it was almost unbearable and I had to drive myself to the E.R. (my husband was made to work over) They took my blood and found that it was going up but only to 400 so the GYN on call came down and told me that I didn't have a choice in the matter that it was in the tube and I was going to rupture and would bleed out in 5 min. and there was no E.R. in the country that could operate fast enough to save me. She said she would go in with a Laparoscope and if it didn't look like it was in the tube she would sew me back up and wait a couple days and take my blood again and that it was possible that the pregnancy was just so young but if she got in there and saw a tubule pregnancy she would have to remove it. I was whisked into emergency surgery and an hour and a half later she came and told me that it had been a tubule pregnancy and it was rupturing as she opened me up and that I must have had someone up above looking out for me because if she had waited just a few more seconds I would not be here. Also the tube had exploded and there was no way to fix it so now I only have one tube and She and My GYN. told me that the other tube looked so bad that it was the most horrible reversal that they had ever seen and the Dr. that did my surgery should be out of business for taking peoples money and operating and telling them that everything looked wonderful and have it really look like crap. My Dr. asked for the DR.'s name and where I had it done. They said that if I now got pregnant they're afraid it would be another tubule pregnancy and I might not be so lucky next time, and that they were very sorry as I started crying out of control. I mean it was bad enough to have gone through emergency surgery and lose my baby but to then be told that the operation you had to be able to get pregnant had ruined my chances. Our dreams had just been bashed to pieces on the rocks. I'm trying to find out if I can sue the Dr. that did this surgery and at least get my money back so I can somehow try IV. If there's anyone out there that has been through this please let me know. Thanks for letting me vent.