Hi Sunny,

I'm 30 and have been TTC for 2 years. I have PCOS, severe endo and a blocked fallopian tube. So needless to say I need help if I am ever going to fall pregnant.

I have a lap in September last year (in the private system). Despite having private health insurance, it still cost a fortune and left me out of pocket more than 4K. So if you can wait with the public system then financially their are benefits but waiting is also so hard.

In my lap they managed to remove / laser a whole heap of the endd but I still have some on my bowel and in something called the pouch of douglas. My FS who did the surgery couldn't remove it. He said it was high risk and required a specialist as a portion of my bowel may need to be removed to get all of it.

The recovery from the surgery was not too bad. I only took two days off work however I think that was the stupidest thing I've ever done. I was in a riddiculous amount of pain to the point of nausea and almost collapsing. It really took more like two weeks to begin to feel like myself again.

The bloating after surgery is also pretty funny, you look about 5 months pregnant, so loose and comfy clothing is a must.

The surgery is done key hole, so I only had three small cuts. They healed well but are still pretty obvious. I'm hoping they fade with time.

After my lap I then started on Zoladex for my endo. It is a hormoe treatmentthat puts you into menopause (well sort of anyway). They break from AF and pain whilst on it was great, but I had a lot of side effects including headaches, mood swings, weight gain and panic attacks. No nice. Am now off it as we have moved on to IVF.

Had an ICSI cycle in Jan but no ET due to OHSS, had feb off to recover and am hoping to do a FET this month.

Oh and in terms of endo symptoms - one million times better after the surgery. I didn't realise how much pain I was actually in and that it wasn't in fact normal. I still have bowel symptoms around time of AF because of the remaining endo, but for now am jsut trying to put up with that. The surgery to deal with that is pretty major and risky so I'm trying to put it off as long as I can.

In the meantime just hoping and praying for a miracle - a BFP.

Sorry for the long winded response. Not sure if I've answered all your questions but feel free to ask anything else you miight want to know

Jane