FSH 74

[Starryeyes1984]

Title says it all. Sometimes I actually can’t believe that I’m 34 years old and going through menopause. Mental. In hindsight I can see that I’d had symptoms for years but the most important clue, irregular periods, didn’t come until much later, by which point my AMH was already 0.1 and it was already too late for me to have my own biological children. I wish I’d seen it sooner when I could have done something about it but you don’t think much of the occasional night swears when you’re 29. You just think your bedroom must have been too hot that night! Not sure what the purpose of this post is. Just rambling really! It’s not something that my friends could relate to. I’m sure in 50 years there’ll be a way to create gametes from stem cells and men and women who for whatever reason don’t have eggs or sperm can be helped but in the meantime I’m

at least glad that I live in a more open time and country where childlessness is far less stigmatised and that science can help people have kids through donors.

[DianeArnold Partner Nurse Fertility Network UK]

Hi Starryeyes. Oh so sorry to read this, and I do hope that you have managed to find some support or have some counselling to talk it all over. I suppose you have already thought about using an egg donor, and although you never thought it would come to that, just read on and see all the happy ladies here that have been successful doing the same. Just for now be careful who you spend your time with until you feel able to move on from this chapter. I do hope that you do decide to have a baby using a donor, and become the mother you so hoped you would be. Thinking of you. Diane