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kekekosh

Updated 9mo ago

Struggling with the Decision to Have Children While Battling CML

Anyone with CML decide not to have children or struggling with the decision to have discontinue treatment to conceive a baby?

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horror.metal.chick

2y

I tried to get pregnant right after I was diagnosed. Luckily I was diagnosed very early. For 9 months I took Interferon but had no luck getting pregnant. I had to stop because the side effects were brutal. After that I had to give up my dream. It broke my heart. Obviously my body was telling me something. Since then I found that I wouldn't have the energy for a child. I try enjoy being an "aunt" to all my friend's kids. That works for my current situation.
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KrissyB

2y

I thought long and hard about it , and what I decided to do was get a hysterectomy because I already had a very small uterus and my first child almost didn't make it. I was told that if I got pregnant again (pre cancer ) that I would be high risk and one if not both of us could die during labor . So with that in mind I decided to have a hysterectomy so that I wouldn't have to choose between me living or the child as well and I ended up getting a good male obgyn (who also performed the surgery) who ended up telling me I had endometreosis and that I had been misdiagnosed for years. We did the surgery December 2nd of 2021 and I feel amazing now
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Lolita

9mo

Before I started treatment I froze my eggs. I conceived during my remission, and after I discussed it with my oncologist

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