Surgery

If you read the my Real Diagnosis post you know that on my last RE appointment they told me the cause of my IF is not PCOS, but a large pituitary tumor on sitting on the base of my brain.  She referred me to a neurosurgeon to  see what kind of treatment I needed for it.

But after seeing the Neurosurgeon he sat down with me and went over everything and apparently the tumor is so large it needs to be removed. The doctor said he wants to do surgery as soon as possible, not tomorrow but in the next month or so. I still have to go to the eye doctor for field vision testing to see if the tumor has caused any damage to my vision now or if it will in the future.

Now the hardest thing for me to hear wasn't the fact that I had a brain tumor, wasn't the fact they're going to remove it, but the fact that there is a large possibility that once the tumor is removed there's no guarantee that I'll be able to have children.  The pituitary controls the the hormones that make my ovaries work, and it is possible that once everything is done it may never work and essentially I could go into early menopause.

The neuro is going to talk to the RE to see if it is a possibility of doing and ER and freezing some eggs prior to surgery. But since I'm OOP for meds and wasn't really expecting this I don't think I have the money for the meds to do this.

I'm still praying for a miracle and again this is yet another speed bump in the road to start our flock.