Hope you conceive again soon PP and have a long and boring pregnancy IYKWIM
Yeah clomid increases the chances of ectopic but my understanding was that it was only for that cycle so wouldn't affect your tubes later on. What I find interesting is the majority of tubes removed from ectopic are the right side. I cant remember why that is but there is a reason for it. Most of the people I know have lost their right tubes (including me)
L&B I had this disagreement with the Ob recently as I almost never ovulate from my tubeless side anymore. He reckons I wouldn't know but the times I have had an ultrasound I have never been wrong. I once read somewhere that the tube supplies the ovary with a large percentage of blood supply so once its removed the working capacity of that ovary is reduced so to me it would make sense that as a result you would then ovulate more frequently from the ovary with the tube bearing in mind both ovaries start growing follies and the leading one takes over with the rests been reabsorbed. To me that would make sense that the ovary with the best blood supply would win the race almost every month. I know the tube isn't connected to the ovary so I am sure how the blood supply from the tube also feeds the ovary but apparently somewhere along the line it does.
As for your theory I would imagine a cyst could damage a tube. You would think there would have been some tissue or fluid that could have been left behind in your tube and combined with the clomid cycle may have increased the chances even further.
Anyway no luck ttc for us. Its getting a bit disheartening. I hoped after having a hint of a pregnancy in May I might have been one of these freaky people who conceived the very next cycle. Im now about to O again but both DH and I are unwell and although have DTD don't hold much hope of anything surviving in my body. We have been really struggling with what to do as to ttc again or not. I wish I could give up trying but I know if I don't atleast give it our best I will always feel someone is missing and wished for another baby. I just hope if it doesn't happen I can move on and have closure that it was never meant to be. I hate the thought of my ttc days ending with a few m/c or another ectopic and another few years trying. I'd much prefer to close the book on ttc with the birth of another baby. But apart from that and feeling very unwell I am going well