I am fairly confident that no one I actually know is dealing with the same situation I am and therefore I am trying to branch out and find someone who can sympathize and maybe offer some assistance. I turned 30 this year I have been married almost 4 years and I am starting to believe that I have no options to become a mother. I haven't limited my attempts of getting pregnant to just the time I have been married I have known I wanted to be a mother my whole life. As far as I know I have never became pregnant, I have always had irregular periods, and have recently been diagnosed with PCOS. Also just so you have as much of the picture as possible, I had a grapefruit sized cyst on my right Fallopian tube back in 2007 so both the tube and the cyst had to be removed. Since then my periods have pretty much become nonexistant, typical progesterone treatments (Provera) do not work they have not been successful stimulation a period. We have found that Megace (aka Megesterol) does work but it is a very severe medicine and so I am only taking it every 3 months to have the necessary periods to avoid further issues. Wow, I have so much more to say... but I think I better stop there at this point, otherwise no one is gonna want to read it all.
I don’t actually agree with ur statement “Misery Loves its Company” that is an unfair statement when it comes to infertility, we cannot help this we are all here hopefully to try to help each other round diff things and maybe if we were relatively near each other we could try to set up meetings 1 a week or however often ppl want, considering there are meetings for everything else, u get help if ur an alcoholic, addict, everything basically except infertility…
Hi I just signed up like 5mins ago so I am new too. I totally know how you feel about noone else going through this. I feel totally alone. My mom trys to comfort me but she had 2 children with no problem. I have been trying for 5 years now and I have never once been pregnant. The doctors have not found anything wrong with me but I am sooo tired of waiting. I actually am sort of getting mad about this now. I am also sad because the holidays are coming up and those are the hardest because that is when I really want a child. My sis has four! I really hope the best for you and I know how sucky this feels.
Your situation sounds so much like mine. I really don’t have anyone to talk to either. My husband and I have been trying for 3 years without success. We have been diagnosed with unexplained infertility, I tried IUI, accupuncture, chinese medicine etc. I am so tired of trying and tired of being sad. My mom and sister try to be supportive but it’s not always helpful. My sister has 3 kids, had 3 miscarriages and is successfully pregnant with her fourth. I am super happy for her but I find it especially hard to be around pregnant people when my period is about to start, and guess what it is likely going to start on Christmas day and I will be surrounded by family, including my sister, who I am really happy for and feeling really bad that my happiness for her is being tainted by me feeling sorry for myself :(.
Hi. I'm just gonna paste what I just posted in my profile (I too am new) because I think we may have a lot in common. I have seen the cysts on my ovaries and it makes me ill to think about it. It was over 10 years ago and they didn't remove them at that point, I can't imagine what they are like now.
I'm here because I had polycystic ovarian syndrome since I was ’of childbearing age’. I began menstruating at 11 and knew by 14 that something was different/wrong with me. I went on the pill at 16 to regulate my periods, then went off it at 24. I did get pregnant once when I was a18 during a short period of going off the pill, but it didn’t last past 7 weeks. I have had long term relationships where we didn’t practice safe sex (after both being tested for STD‘s) and I never once have had any inclination of being pregnant. I thought I had become comfortable with the idea I’d never have kids but in the last 2 years that has changed to being ok with it but yet unsatisfied if I don’t do everything I can to try. I am now pushing 36 years old, and looking at extensively expensive things to make that happen no matter what. Oh, and did I mention… I’m a social worker, so I am poor. I get by ok and am very creative in getting my needs met, so yes I could afford a child but there is no margin for any extra expenses in the manner I would need to make it happen. I also find myself alone at this juncture; I was dating a much older man who loves me and said he would consider having a kid but doesn’t really want one. I want one, and if I am to raise one with someone else I want them to want the child as badly as I do, not just to appease me. I have been alone my whole life with dealing with the reality of my infertility and my miscarriage… but I am reaching out now because I think its making me kind of depressed and I don’t want to go down that road. And I’m intimidated and scared to go through this process of finding out the real truth about how difficult my road is going to be to make it happen. BTW I am totally open to everything up to/ including adoption… but once again… that costs a lot of money.
Hi guys, new to these sites, again I am another person that hasn't had anybody to speak to about the infertility, my therapist didn't know of any particular meetings taking place near me about these very hard subject for me, I have been trying since I was 25 I have had a separation and divorce because of it, i am now 40 turning 41 and am still trying to get somewhere with it, I have been in touch with Rollercoaster.ie where there are places in Greece or other places that can help with this problems but again they cost money which I don't have, I think when adoption is such a huge priority for ppl like us, why can't our government of Health Authorities give us something or help us towards gaining this, i know governments are always poor etc, and health authorities are always saying the same thing but it might alleviate some of the problems currently outstanding...