Infertility can be an isolating experience. Here, L'Oreal Thompson Payton (LTintheCity) shares her journey so that other women of color facing infertility don't feel so alone.
Trying was fun at first, but it quickly became stressful. Thenbecame stressful—coordinating trips and events around that pivotal ovulation window, operating our house like a drill sergeant to ensure we were “on schedule” at all times. While my husband, known as my polar opposite, was laid-back, I struggled to stay level-headed.American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
suggests waiting out a year of trying to conceive before exploring fertility options. Given my personal and family history of fibroids, I decided to get checked out sooner than that even though I was only 31 at the time. Arevealed that I had three fibroids in my uterus even though I’d had a myomectomy to remove nearly 20 fibroids two years before. The good news, however, was that none of them was in a position to make conceiving difficult.
If we didn’t get pregnant during my next cycle, my doctor recommended my husband and I have our fertility tested. His results came back fine. Mine, however, were more complicated. I ended up having a hysterosalpingography, or HSG test, which is an X-ray procedure used to get a better look at the uterus and fallopian tubes,explains. A tube was inserted into my uterus, and a contrast dye was administered to gauge its shape and size.
As promised, the doctor phoned the next day to break the news: My fallopian tubes were blocked or damaged, preventing the sperm and egg from meeting. But, sitting at the kitchen counter with my phone pressed against my ear, all I heard was that my body was faulty. I was officially part of theBecause both of my fallopian tubes were blocked, the doctor strongly encouraged in vitro fertilization, or IVF, wherein an egg and sperm are combined outside of the body and later implanted into the uterus.
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