Hi All~
I am back from the photo shoot. We did them at East Carolina, the university here. It was kind of fun, but I am anxious to see the pictures. I asked the photographer, and he said to email the editor, and she should be able to send me some of them. I will post them if I get them.

Rebecca~ From what my RE said about a lap... they do go in through your belly button, and make another incision (or two) in your bikini line. They can see tissues that may be in the way, or causing problems, such as endometriosis, which does not show up on an ultrasound or hsg. When people have tubes remived (like Betsy was saying) it is when there is too much damage to a tube (scar tissue, endo, etc) or possibly a hydrosalpinx (sp?) which is what people refer to as "water tubes," and that is very dangerous, so they sometimes just remove the tube. The RE said that basically going in, they dont know what they will find, so they kind of make a decision about what to do when they get in. If it is simple enough, they can laser off endo, or scar tissue. A lap is my next step after this IUI...

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