Surgery done, septum out!

I can't begin to explain the relief of having that damn thing out. It was just hanging out in there rent free for like 34 years (the uterus forms surprisingly early in fetal development). The worst part was actually the meds I took Thursday night to make my cervix open up. I loaded up on pain meds, but couldn't take anything after midnight, so by Friday morning I was hungry, thirsty, nauseaus, and crampy. That made for long drive to the hospital and long wait in pre-op. But the rest was a snap just needed one shot of pain meds in my IV after and haven't taken anything since. Friday afternoon I actually felt spectacular, which was strange. It was probably just the IV and that I had felt so bad before. Now I'm on estrogen (Premarin) for 3 weeks and Progesterone (Provera) for the last of those three. Then hopefully AF will come soon thereafter and we'll be back in the game. I have my post-op appt. on Thursday. I got some pics from the procedure that I thought I'd share, hope they don't completely gross you out. I think they are kind of cool.

Before resection, looking up from the cervix, the septum is quite large, taking up most of the uterus...


But once she cut into it, you can see that it is fibrous (not vascular, i.e. no blood flow). I think it looks like fiber optic cable filaments...



Then after resection, what is left will be absorbed back into the uterine wall to leave a nice wide hopefully baby friendly place. It's starting to look a bit more normal. Pretty cool...


Normal Ute (AdvancedFertility.com)