At the age of 17 when diagnosed with PCOS. I was a teenager looking for answers as to why my cycle didn’t come for 9 months after getting off the pill, I had gained more than 40 pounds and I felt awful. The Dr had NO care in the world to tell me I was infertile. Conversation literally went like this
Obgyn: “The tests came back, you have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome”
Me: “what does that mean?”
Obgyn: “it means you’re infertile”
I was left with way more questions than answers. I also was 17 and not thinking so I thought that meant I could never have kids and I actually got pregnant at 18! Ooopsie baby but doctors really should be more careful throwing that term around.
There is hope, the infertility diagnosis actually means that you have actively been trying to get pregnant for 12 months without becoming pregnant. It however doesn’t mean sterile which is complete and total inability to concieve and that’s where a lot of people get the two things confused. You can become pregnant 1+ years after trying, or longer and still have been infertile.
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When I was 28 and had been trying to conceive for 1 year without a pregnancy. Thats the medical standard for dianogisis.
At the age of 17 when diagnosed with PCOS. I was a teenager looking for answers as to why my cycle didn’t come for 9 months after getting off the pill, I had gained more than 40 pounds and I felt awful. The Dr had NO care in the world to tell me I was infertile. Conversation literally went like this
Obgyn: “The tests came back, you have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome”
Me: “what does that mean?”
Obgyn: “it means you’re infertile”
I was left with way more questions than answers. I also was 17 and not thinking so I thought that meant I could never have kids and I actually got pregnant at 18! Ooopsie baby but doctors really should be more careful throwing that term around.
There is hope, the infertility diagnosis actually means that you have actively been trying to get pregnant for 12 months without becoming pregnant. It however doesn’t mean sterile which is complete and total inability to concieve and that’s where a lot of people get the two things confused. You can become pregnant 1+ years after trying, or longer and still have been infertile.
Unexplained IF, at 33 after 1 year of trying, then going to in for testing which found everything being Normal.
I got a tubal last year. That’s how I knew I was 100% infertile 🙂