One of the reasons I was reluctant to start
fertility treatment—aside from the astronomical costs—was I was afraid what it would mean
to start putting all those chemicals in my body: the hormones to increase my
egg production, to make me ovulate, to regulate my cycle. It seemed like a bit
much. Especially since fertility is such a burgeoning field in early stages and
no one quite knows what the effects will be.
That’s why
I put off starting treatment. (That and the fact that I’d gotten pregnant
naturally before.) I started with some IUI’s (they never work, do they?), then
moved to minimal stimulation IVF, which used a much lower dose of drugs and produced
fewer eggs (which were ostensibly the best quality ones.) Only after it all
didn’t work did I move onto full-stimulation treatment. But I worried about the
effects of such a treatment on myself and my future baby
A recent study on every IVF procedure at the Human
Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) implied that women who had
undergone fertility treatments were 37 percent more likely to develop
ovarian cancer. Of course, buried in the stories was the less sexy information:
Most analysis suggested the increased risk of ovarian cancer were linked to the
type of women that needed fertility treatments in the first place, not the
actual IVF treatment itself.
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