Women ttc with both Endometriosis & Lapband surgery

What's your story? When was your surgery?

What do you eat to help get better nutrition since starting to get pregnant?

My lapband surgery was jan 2019, I lost 80 lbs which I maintained until after my wedding and 2nd honeymoon in February of this year. I still have another 80lbs to reach my goal weight 180. I started at 339lbs. Last month I started at ob and had blood work done for the first time since surgery. After dealing with pcos so long, my recent blood work my dr found NO evidence of PCOS at all!! All my hormone levels are normal!!

More on my endo tho...

Thursday February 3rd was 10 years since I was diagnosed with Endometriosis. Had a 20 cm cysist removed from my left ovary, my left fallopian tube removed, and my colon had to be repositioned and of course my endo scraped out.

Now that we are married and gone on our honeymoon 2.0 Last month I stopped my medication which I first began 10 years ago to treat my endometriosis to suppress my ovaries to prevent me forming anymore ovarian cysts. It also worked as a birth control. I will now just have to hope and pray I can manage my endometriosis and pcos without it. My pain has already tripled since last month.

Growing up overweight I was constantly being told by my doctors that with being overweight I'd have a very good chance of having fertility problems when I got got older. By age 10 my endocrinologist told me he believed I had started developing PCOS symptoms(obviously I had know idea what that even meant). My 13th birthday was spent in ER with my first diagnosed ovarian cycist confirming my diagnosis of PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome). For the next 7 years I believed that my incredibly painful and heavy periods and the daily chronic pain I felt everyday was just normal. At age 20 my gynecologist claimed that after I experienced a terrible side effect from the medication she prescribed me that caused my entire left foot to swell up and hurt so bad I was about ready to chop my foot off. She said since I was allergic to that birth control then I'm allergic to all birth control, because that ingredient "estrogen" is in all birth control. Because of her 2 years later I ended up in the ER again this time with a 20 cm ovarian cyst, that could of been prevented had my doctor not been an idiot. After my surgery my dr diagnosed me with something I never heard of Endometriosis. My new dr. Told me there are other birth controls pills out there which have no or very low levels of estrogen but primarily progest. Yes had been aware of this I could of been treating my pcos and Endometriosis for those past 2 years, and never would need the surgery to have a 20 cm cysist removed from my left ovary, which forced my surgeon to have to remove my left fallopian tube or for insides to be needed to be literally scraped out because of my scarring a result of the Endometriosis.

And so i ask to please keep me in your prayers along with all my fellow endometriosis sisters, especially those transitioning off their medicine in hopes of starting a family of their own.

Now the time is here that I've worried about for the past 10 years with only one fallopian I still hope I'll be able to get pregnant.

This is my 2nd month of trying, I'm 8dpo today. I go to the Dr monday. Hoping to get a hsg test schedule to see if my fallopian tube is open.

I've been Cramping the last week but I'm told it could be normal with Endometriosis and ttc.

I was worried it take months before I ovulated on my own after going off my bc natazia( which has mainly progesterone and by not taking sugar pills shortened my perriods from 7 days to 3 or 4), but it happened the very next month. I was pleasantly surprised. Though my periods are once again just a heavy and painful as they were before I started the bc natazia 10 years ago. I do know it will take a few months at least for my cycle to regulate again. I was normal before I began the pill, just very heavy and extra painful.

Symptoms of course are very different for us ladies with endo, and having our stomachs banded makes ttc even more difficult especially when your band tends to tighten up on its because of stress.

Anyone planning to empty your band once you get pregnant or already have while ttc?