Have you spoke with an infertility specialist, tried some natural herbal meds, I am no Dr., but I am sure their are a lot of channels to approach with a situation such as this, keep going until you get the answers you want! Good luck! Bless you!
Sincerely,
sandy

Lotus i'm so sorry for what you're going through. I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure at 33, right after I had my 2nd child. The doctor told me it shouldn't be a problem unless I wanted more children. There was help for women with pof at the time, some studies in boston, and he wanted me to know about that.

I also questioned why that happened to me. I thought I did something to myself, but my doctor also said no.

A fertility expert would be your best bet at this time. I wish you all the best.

Karli

Wish you luck lotus and be strong, becouse you are!!!!!

I do opologize, I should have said, in my post to see a fertility specialist, not infertility specialist.
Sincerely,
sandy

I'm so sorry that you've had to deal with this at your age.

I have a couple of questions.
What was your fsh level?
Did the doctor tell you if your ovaries have completely stopped functioning on their own or if you're in an earlier stage of pof?

There are options but they still depend on "nature".

Elevated fsh levels indicate diminished ovarian function, reserve and quality but some women respond well to medications and hrt.
If you can acheive some ovarian funtion, ivf with pgd (pre-implantation genetic diagnosis) can afford you some hope.
Sometimes the egg may appear fine, but the quality is compromised. Pgd ensures that only quality, healthy embryos are transferred during ivf and, while it costs more, it eliminates the guesswork.

While there are no guarantees, many women with your condition have gone on to become mothers.

I hope you're one of them.

Just a word of advice... Find a fertility specialist or reproductive endocrinologist now. Don't trust your gynocologist with this. They often don't know very much about fertility beyond the basic "mechanics" of it.

I wish you all the best.

Hi girls,
I am a 43 year old career woman, who met my partner at 38 and felt ready to have a child. I had a termination at age 28, and though I have regrets, it was the right decision at the time. Now, I could blame myself and have made a real effort not to, cos I have been diagnosed with Pof ....yeah I am not that young ...but I'm not that old either. I was devasted at first, but now, quite frankly, I only wish some of the symptoms would go away. I never know when I might have a period, I find "air" a big problem and I have periods of hot flashes, usually a week in every 6months, I have gained around 1 stone in wieght (british!), and feel constantly like I am due on......I would have expected this in a few years, and would have assumed peri-menopause, but both my mother and grandmother were 50 when they went through the meno. and my elder sister has no signs what so ever and has 3 wonderful children......it can be depressing, but think positive, YOU ARE NOT entirely infertile, and even if this is the case ....there are a million wonderful children out there waiting for a wonderful family. OR you could just live YOUR life, without money concerns, dependants, taking off on a holiday when you fancy, no search for schools, no worries about your grown up child appearing on your door step when you are seventy sobbing about a failed marriage....etc. Don't get me wrong , if I could have , after the abortion...I would have, but I can't and I look at my friends who have and they are stressed and financially pushed to the limit and pre - occupied and worried CONSTANTLY! To be honest, I don't know if I really want that stress in my life......do you???? Think about it, carefully and intelligently....wiegh up the pros and cons and don't be sentimental! We are not all baby machines.....some of us were designed to do something else.....find your "something" and don't panic about the "ovary time clock"

I am 21 years old at the age of 19 I was told that i had POF which crushed me. My fsh levels were 170.0 and the doctor thought there was a lab error so i can back in the very next day and it went all the way up to 191.0 so it was confirmed. I went to a second doctor and was told the same thing. The only thing they said would work for me was IVF with and donor egg. At 21 i never thought this was something i would have to think about! but just hang in and remember everything will work out for the best in the end....