HSG...

I just got home from having my HSG, and I'm so happy to say that everything looked normal! I was almost convinced there was going to be some kind of blockage, but no, it was great. Such a relief! I spent a while chatting to the X-ray tech because I used to do her job back in England, and she was so nice. I asked her if I could take some pics of my HSG images and she made me a CD with all of them on. Awesome!

The procedure itself wasn't at all bad, just a little uncomfortable but not painful. It wasn't much worse than having a pap smear, honestly. I'm having some spotting now but other than that I feel fine. I had some mild cramping when the radiologist inserted the balloon and pushed the dye through, but it was nothing compared with the cramps I get when I have my period.

Anyway, here are some of my images (with identifying information removed, of course!)

Uterus and both fallopian tubes

View of right fallopian tube (with dye spilling out)

View of left fallopian tube (with dye spilling out)

So this is what we know so far:

• My husband's semen analysis and blood-work came back awesome
• My HSG looked great
• My blood work for estrogen and thyroid are presumably OK (I haven't been able to get a copy of those yet, but the lab tech said that I would have been contacted if there was anything wrong)
• My glucose tolerance test results should be available in a couple of days, and I'll ger a call if there's a problem.

As yet, our infertility is unexplained. Of course, there could be a reason that hasn't been discovered yet. Maybe we'll know more soon. Better yet, maybe I'll be pregnant soon. That seems like wishful thinking, and I definitely won't allow myself to get my hopes up, but maybe it will happen.

I can't wait until our little vacation. We need it so badly!

SA results

As far as I can tell, my hubby has above average swimmers! Here are some of the actual values:

• Volume: 4.0 mL (normal range 2-10 mL)

• Concentration: 107 million per mL (high - normal range 20-100 million)

• Total motile: 287 million (high - normal range 20-100 million)

• Normal morphology: 38% (normal is 30% and above)

• Rapidly progressive: 48%

• Motility: 67% (normal range 50-100%)

• pH: 8.0 (normal range 7.2 to 10)

• Liquefaction time: 60 mins (normal range 0-60 mins)

• Viscosity: High (not sure if this is a problem, as it did liquefy just in the normal range)

All of his blood work came back great too, nothing abnormal there. What a relief! At the same time, it makes me think that my own results will be less than favorable... I mean, with swimmers like that, surely I should have gotten pregnant by now! I'm kinda worried about what they're going to find with my tests, but knowledge is power as they say.

In other news, I think I'm 2 dpo today. My temp stayed in the higher range this morning, so as long as it stays up there tomorrow my chart will confirm it  :)