My Battle With My Infertility As A “Fertility Expert” Meant Admitting How Much We Still Don’t Know
There seem to be two narratives in medicine. The traditional, white coat, Western route, and the alternative, unconventional (to us Americans, anyhow), Eastern route. Depending on who you talk to one is superior to the other. It’s easy to think that one has all the answers. But when it comes to fertility, is it possible that we’re all just throwing spaghetti at a wall? Sometimes it sticks. And sometimes it doesn’t.
I was staring my doctor in the face (virtually, of course, because #pandemic) and I was trying to let her statement sink in. “You have endometriosis and a mild case of PCOS. Your estrogen is elevated (she points to a chart that shows an ominous line of my estrogen steamrolling exponentially), and we’re going to need to address that before you’ll be able to even consider conceiving.”