Why we chose ovarian suppression

Vika: Well I was diagnosed after a month of you know, tests and scans, and you know, after I found out I had cancer, it gave us about 3 weeks to about a month of…before I started chemotherapy. You do all the baseline tests and get all the baseline doctor’s visits done and one of the things we talked about was going to see the fertility specialist and we had seen this woman and actually Adam had done all the research on finding this fertility specialist and he called her, the same day she saw us for free. And she laid out all the options and some of them were do-able but it would have postponed my chemotherapy and I didn’t want to do that. I wanted to go, go, go and you know, we just wanted to get through with it. The option that we thought was the best for us was the Lupron injections and it was, you know, an injection every month. It wasn’t like I had to wait for my next cycle and there was no major surgery involved. It was pretty easy, you know, an injection every month with a lot of side effects but they were definitely tolerable and hopefully worth it.

Adam: Our decision was influenced by the fact that through the research we had done on the particular chemotherapy that she was going to be getting, we found out that it is something that is not absolutely going to make you infertile. So, if that would have been the case, we probably would have considered harvesting eggs and storing eggs or something like that a little bit more. But because we knew the chemotherapy probably wasn’t going to make her infertile we thought about doing something a little less invasive and that wasn’t going to delay chemotherapy significantly and it seemed like a middle of the road option. It was covered by insurance which was important.

Vika: Yeah, I think we felt like we had to do something but maybe not go to the extreme of preserving eggs, you know, the shot sounded great to us. You know, we could start it right away, you know, hopefully our chances of being fertile later will be increased from the shot, so we were glad that we did something, rather than, you know, nothing.