A real life infertile story - straight from the heart

This is from an email Manju sent me, which a reader shared with her.It's full of valuable insights, which both doctors and patients can learn from , and I am privileged to share this with you.My Infertility story...I am 33 years old and DH is 38 and we have been married for around 9.5 years. Ours was a love marriage and there was no pressure from either family on babies. We started planning for a baby 6 years back and that was when my gynae told us that I had PCOD. I was put on Metformin and folvite and asked to lose weight(I am 5'5" tall and weighed around 70 kgs). I took the advice pretty seriously and joined a gym and successfully lost weight and actually, started loving the work-out. How I wish it was that easy to conceive a baby....The visits to the doctor continued and I started maintaining an entry of when my last menstrual period(LMP) was..funny, how you start learning these oft-repeated terms while going for numerous visits to doctors' clinics. The doc advised to try naturally for conception, with what is known as timed intercourse. A follicular study is done to assess the status of the follicles over a speriod of several days, usually starting from the8th or 9th day of the cycle till the eggs get released. It means going to the clinic/hospital everyday for a 2 minute probe while waiting for a reasonable 20 minutes to 30 minutes. Just realized that recollecting all these details today, after so many years is making me feel strange..hurt, rather. The moment of timed i...
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