Getting ready for the surgery

The first thing that happens is that your fertility doctor will send you to a surgeon or back to your OBGYN to have this surgery completed. Most Fertility doctors can do this in house but since it is usually billed to insurance under infertility and where most insurance won’t cover anything that deals with infertility, it is best to be seen through your regular family doctor of OBGYN. The next step once you have met with your doctor is to schedule the surgery. Depending on where the surgery is done this can be as simple as next week or it can take as long as 3 months to get a time set but it usually scheduled around days 5-12 (once you are done with your period but before you ovulate)

The doctor/surgeon may have more blood test preformed to make sure that you are healthy enough for surgery and they will also go over exactly what is going to happen during the surgery. This is a time for you to get your questions answered, have your fears calmed and get to know the person that you will be entrusting your body too. This pre appointment I feel is very important for your spouse to attend because he will be the one who will be supporting you through this as well as the one in the waiting room. He needs to know what is going as well as you so that he can have peace about it as well as know how to help you best.

In preparing for this surgery, I would request 2-3 day off of work to have this done. Recovery is should only take a couple of days but since everyone handles it a little different it is best to be prepared to take as much time as you need.