A friend has announced her infertility. She says she went to see her doctor and had an internal ultrasound, which revealed a tear in her uterus wall (apparently that’s enough to cause fertility problems on its own). They missed it when they did the laprascopy in January. In addition, said doctor took a sample of her eggs while he was at it, and said the eggs were “just dead”. She says he told her she has a one in a million chance of ever conceiving because of her dead eggs.
Is there really any such thing as an internal ultrasound? It seems redundant.
Can a tear in the uterus wall cause fertility problems? I recall when she had a medical procedure done that she now claims caused the tear, but I was with her the day after, and she experienced no pain. She now says that during that procedure, they “butchered” her.
“Your eggs are just dead. They aren’t fertile” doesn’t sound like a medical diagnosis. Surely a doctor would look in to why a 22 year old woman’s eggs had “died”? Also, don’t you need to take heavy-duty fertility drugs leading up to the sample being taken? She didn’t take any such thing before hand, and says he decided to take the sample on the spurr of the moment, since he was already there doing an internal ultrasound.
The whole thing sounds dodgy to me, but I’d love to be proven wrong. I’d hate to judge her harshly just because her facts sound odd to non-medically-trained-ignorant me.
IANAD, but I may be facing this problem if weightloss doesn’t help.
There is such a thing as a transvaginal or endovaginal ultrasound in which a probe is inserted into the vagina and the uterus is scanned that way. It is used in conjunction with a regular external pelvic ultrasound, although it can be done alone.
I’m going to leave the second question to an MD. I’m hardly qualified to answer it.
I’m sorry to hear about your problems, MsRobyn, and hope they are easily resolved for you.
I also hope no one takes offence to the OP - I am aware that the girl in question has told me some porkies before now, and suspect (with good reason) that she has lied about this very subject to me in the past.
I’m intrigued to hear about the internal ultrasound - wow! How bizarre is that!! Thanks for sharing that!
Yes, actually there is such a thing as a “dead” egg–a better way of putting it would have been to say that her eggs weren’t “viable”. No doubt the doctor was trying to put it in layman’s terms for your friend.
And as for “shouldn’t the doctor have tried to find out why a 22-year-old woman’s eggs were ‘dead’,” well, that’s the whole challenge of the infertility medical field. Nobody really knows why some otherwise young and healthy women can’t get pregnant.
And no, you don’t need to take fertility drugs to have eggs taken. A woman’s ovaries ripen five or six eggs every month, only one of which actually gets to go down the fallopian tubes.
I know it seems heartless not to give her the benefit of the doubt, but the medical procedure that she claims caused the Asherman’s syndrome came after the last time she told me she was infertile for no good reason.