Hi Lara, I can understand your situation very much, cos mine is similar to you, or if not worst off. Last year i went for check-up at Raffles Hospital after I've not been getting preggy since 2 years after my marriage. Did HSG (i'm sure you've done it by now since you know that you have one side of the tube blocked), blood test and sperm count for my hubby. And in the end, my results was quite disappointing. My hormone level and blood test result was ok, but two sides of my fallopian tubes were blocked. As hubby's result was also slightly on the low side, the gynae immediately recommend us IVF.
After consulting my TCM, she recommend me to unblock my tubes, as for my hubby, it's normal to be slightly low cos it's sample submitted to the hospital, so the "feeling" ain't there, thus the result. She said that if go for IVF, they will be inject hormones into our body and etc, which will in turn "harm" our body when we grow older. And also the baby usually will be premature.
In the end, we went to polyclinic, got a referral letter to KKH and I did laparoscopy in mid November last year. It's a key-hole surgery, and I recovered rather fast, about 1 month or so. You'll be put to sleep when they are operating on you. You can request the doctor at the ward to give you hospitalization leave up to 30 days before you discharge. Total bill was $2500+, after medisave deduction ($2k), it's around $500+ cash. If you want to claim using your insurance, please tell the gynae in advance, so that he/she do not put infertility as the diagnostic.
Now I've more or less recovered already, with the help of my wonderful TCM at the same time regulating my body for me before and after my surgery. If you're interested in my TCM, she's Dr Su from Funan (Bukit Batok).