Ok, so I've given this a lot of thought. Here's what it's like to feel the pain of infertility, for those who have never suffered but would like to understand.
Imagine every woman in the world is born with cancer.
Most begin to find a cure for their cancer in their 20s, some in their 30s. But all in all, most women eventually find a cure for their cancer without much trouble, without much of a struggle.
You have been going to specialist after specialist, undergoing treatment after treatment, taking medicine, giving yourself shots, anything and everything to try to find a cure for your cancer, but nothing works. You are exhausted. You feel left out. You've spent a ton of money trying to find your cure. For you, there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
In the mean time, all your friends and family members and pretty much everyone you know has found their cure. Your friends, family members, people on the street, people on TV, people on Facebook, they all talk about their cures and how wonderful it is to be cured.
But there's you, still suffering from cancer. And most people who've found their cure don't really want to talk about your suffering, they just want to talk about how wonderful life is since they found their cure. And you are happy for them, because you don't want anyone to suffer from cancer the way you have suffered.
Everyone is going to live a long, healthy life. But you don't know if they will ever find a cure for cancer. You have no idea how long your cancer will last. You are living in limbo, in pain, feeling isolated, alone, helpless, broke and wondering "why me?"
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