So I had my consult with the new RE. We're doing an IVF, similar to IVF #1 (with RE #2). He wasn't so concerned about our lack of success with IVFs since he said the last doctor we used had very low success rates in general and his is much better. Of course, he didn't take the last insurance we had, so going to him wasn't really an option previously. We don't really have 10s of thousands of dollars lying around waiting to be used for cycles that don't work anyway.
He also wanted me to do another HSG, since the first one I had was before my ectopic. I had it on Monday and the results were basically inconclusive. He said everything was fine except the right fallopian tube. He couldn't tell with that one. He said the dye did go through so it's definitely not completely blocked, but there might be some scarring from the ectopic. He said that if I was a person with no issues and a 28-day cycle, he'd want to do the laproscopic surgery and see if there's scarring and fix it if there is. But since we need to do IVF anyway, he didn't think there was any point to the surgery since the scarring won't affect IVF (though he said it might have affected the IUIs we did). So basically we're still on for IVF #4. He's having us go on bcp for a month first (we did that for IVF #1 as well). When I went to pick up the bcp from the pharmacy, I also picked up the antibiotic I needed for the HSG. The pharmacist there "needed" to speak to me. She wanted to make sure I knew that if I took those antibiotics at the same time as the birth control pills, the birth control pills might not be as effective. She was very concerned. I nodded and smiled, thinking the whole time that that should be my worst problem. I accidentally get pregnant while on birth control.
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