No follicles?

[Kfrieds]

Hello all, I am hoping someone may have some insight on a matter.

I am currently 39 but when I was 35, after trying to get pregnant for a year, we went to a fertility specialist. The fertility doctor said I had no follicles and that I was pre-menopausal. Granted he was only able to look at my right ovary due to my colon or bowel or something being in the way of the left ovary. Anyway, he instantly went into, "You would need a donated egg in order to get pregnant." Etc.

My question is, at 39 I still have a consistent period so doesn't that indicate that I wasn't pre-menopausal at 35 and there are still eggs and I would still be able to have children? My gyno said as long as I have a period I can get pregnant, but quite frankly it still hasn't happened. We basically stopped trying after the fertility doctors diagnosis, but wouldn't it have happened naturally by now? I have not been on BC since I was 34.

 

[Whatme]

I didnt want to read and run, but I have idea, hopefully someone with a bit more knowledge than myself will be able to help you

 

[Kfrieds]

Whatme, you said you had an idea. Could you tell me your thoughts? No one else is responding and any possible leads would be helpful. Thanks so much!

 

[spunky84]

I could be wrong, but I'd say drawing your FSH levels would be a better diagnostic tool. Have they tested your FSH at all?

 

[Kfrieds]

Not 100% sure as I cannot find the paperwork at the moment but I want to say my FSH was 18 or something like that. I know whatever it was it was not the best number and I asked if I could fix it somehow with vitamin therapy or losing weight or something and he said no. I had seen a lot of YouTube videos saying they had fixed theirs, but he said you couldn't fix it. He also said you cannot regrow follicles and I never found any videos on fixing follicles so I just accepted his answer that I would never be able to conceive.

2.5 years later and still no baby. But I still have a regular cycle. So just very confused. I would still like to have a child, but don't want to go through the hassle and cost of another fertility center if it is truly something that can't happen for me due to follicles.