Upcoming minimally invasive surgery, afraid of how it can impact my potential remission
Like the title states, I’m scheduled to have a hysteroscopy with excision tissue on Tuesday to repair my septate uterus. It’s minimally invasive and is done in about an hour. I can’t have children without this being done and it’s seemed like now is the right time. I was diagnosed with UC last July and really went through it to get to where I am now. I’m about six weeks off prednisone after 9-10 months and having a scope on 6/9 to confirm remission with Tremfya. My doctors think it will be fine, but I’m naturally apprehensive and have a lot of fear of things getting as bad as they were at diagnosis. We’re aiming for pregnancy at the end of the year/early next year while Tremfya is still doing its thing and hasn’t told me to F off like infliximab did.
I’m wondering what others experiences are with surgeries/procedures and if they find it impacts their IBD. There’s a strong chance I’ll need to go on doxycycline afterwards, but we won’t know until the surgeon gets in there. I’ve become terrified of antibiotics since being diagnosed and am quite worried about this.
Would you wait until “deep remission” to have the surgery? Does it make a difference? Idk why I have this underlying fear that my IBD is somehow still too fragile to handle any disruptions to my body’s current state. I’m scared and am just trying to do the right thing for my future and health. Thanks in advance if you have any experience or insight.