Thank you for doing this AMA. I'm reading through your answers and feel that you care about the subject matter, but most importantly, the people asking these questions. It's made me feel safe enough to ask something that's clouded my mind for over a decade now.
How do you deal with the anxiety of possibly being infertile and/or the inability to have children even with the intervention of fertility treatments? I say possibly, because I know I am somewhat catastrophizing events that have not yet become reality. I developed secondary amenorrhea in my late teens that has progressively gotten worse and some family history that concerns me. I've seen countless doctors who've all run every hormone and blood panel under the sun. (Un?)fortunately for me, they all come back "normal," so there is no diagnosis or treatment. They just tell me it will be difficult to get pregnant, but not to worry about it right now. Doctors just brush off my concerns about infertility since I'm not actively trying to conceive, but that window of time is getting smaller. But I know at 35, you'd be having a medically geriatric pregnancy, and I've been plagued with a constant worry that children aren't in the cards for me. I wish I knew health psychologists were a thing sooner!
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Thank you for doing this AMA. I'm reading through your answers and feel that you care about the subject matter, but most importantly, the people asking these questions. It's made me feel safe enough to ask something that's clouded my mind for over a decade now.
How do you deal with the anxiety of possibly being infertile and/or the inability to have children even with the intervention of fertility treatments? I say possibly, because I know I am somewhat catastrophizing events that have not yet become reality. I developed secondary amenorrhea in my late teens that has progressively gotten worse and some family history that concerns me. I've seen countless doctors who've all run every hormone and blood panel under the sun. (Un?)fortunately for me, they all come back "normal," so there is no diagnosis or treatment. They just tell me it will be difficult to get pregnant, but not to worry about it right now. Doctors just brush off my concerns about infertility since I'm not actively trying to conceive, but that window of time is getting smaller. But I know at 35, you'd be having a medically geriatric pregnancy, and I've been plagued with a constant worry that children aren't in the cards for me. I wish I knew health psychologists were a thing sooner!
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