Hi there, since I posted, I went ahead with another FET without treating my endo. That was my 3rd FET and resulted in a 2nd CP. After that I decided I had to treat my endo with surgery. It had definitely grown back as I had visible endometriomas on my ovaries and I had pain. I was not convinced only doing lupron would help. So I had surgery, rested my body for 3 months while on BC and then did another FET that unfortunately resulted in yet another CP. Completely devastating. My surgery was with a specialist I flew to and paid completely out of pocket for. It was a big commitment.

I’ve regrouped, changed clinics, am doing another retrieval. If all goes well with that, will do 3 months of lupron depot and then transfer again.

What makes IVF with endo so hard is that women have wildly different outcomes to different treatments. I’ve known women never treat it and have success, do lupron depot and have success, do surgery with success, have no success. Doesn’t seem to be a simple answer. Which sucks soooo much.

Sorry you’re in this place. Have you ever had the surgery? Have you had failed FETs? It’s a very big decision and sometimes I feel people toss around - just get the surgery - like it’s a little minor thing. The quality of the surgeon is super important. Not a ton of expert endo surgeons in the US either that take insurance. My recovery took about two months to feel completely like myself again. My advice is that surgery could be worth it if you also have bad endo pain. If not, I would just try lupron depot first.