Poi
Hello everyone,
I want to share my story and would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through something similar or has any advice.First of all, I got my first period when I was 13, and until I was 16 everything was completely regular and on time. Then, when I was 16, I lost my father. After that, my periods stopped. I went to many doctors, and when they checked my hormone levels, they said it was stress-related amenorrhea. They prescribed me birth control pills.I kept using birth control pills continuously and went to doctors regularly. But whenever I stopped taking the pills, my period wouldn’t come back. They kept telling me this was normal.When I was 22, I went to a very well-known doctor. He ordered the standard tests: FSH, LH, estrogen, and progesterone. Based on the results, they sent me for genetic testing, but nothing showed a genetic condition that would affect my ovarian reserve. Even though my FSH and LH were high, I was still diagnosed with amenorrhea.Everything continued like this until I got married. After marriage, my husband and I decided we wanted to try for a baby. But since I wasn’t having periods, I assumed I wasn’t ovulating, and unfortunately we were unsuccessful. At 25, I went to the doctor again. They put me on birth control pills to induce a period and then ran tests again. At that point, I started doing my own research, and everything pointed strongly toward POI ). I didn’t want to believe it at first—I kept wondering if it could be confused with something else. But my AMH level was 0.011, and that is something that cannot really be mistaken for anything else.I fell into a very deep emotional state. I cried for days. I didn’t want to live. I kept asking myself, “Why me?”Later, I found another doctor and underwent ovarian stem cell treatment. I used HRT for 3 months. At the end of those 3 months, my doctor told me to stop the medication and go for antral follicle monitoring. I went, but no antral follicles were seen. It has now been one month since I stopped the medication, and I feel like I’m back in that same dark place again. I don’t want to believe it, I can’t accept it, and I don’t feel healthy.