Erica HokeFertility Coach for Women 35+ | Unexplained Infertility, Recurrent Loss & Failed IVF

Pregnant without IVF but 7 Diagnosis

19 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Erica Hoke. This content was uploaded by Erica Hoke. This is a YouTube video titled "Pregnant without IVF but 7 Diagnosis" (created 2024-09-19T22:13:44Z). The excerpt is an interview-style exchange in which an interviewer asks Erica about her personal reproductive-health story. The interviewee (addressed as Erica) describes a 12-year struggle that ultimately led to a diagnosis requiring donor eggs, recounting seven diagnoses including stage 4 endometriosis, uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, PCOS, and Factor V Leiden (a blood-clotting disorder linked to infertility).

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And I wanna hear a little bit about your personal story because all of the odds were stacked against you. Doctor after doctor after doctor after doctor was like, Erica, it's not looking so good, right?
Um, years before I got, uh, the diagnosis that I needed donor eggs, I was struggling with, with symptoms and it took me about 12 years to get my first official infertility or reproductive health diagnosis, which was stage 4 endometriosis. It had progressed to that point. So I had 7 diagnoses in all. I had uterine fibroids, I had ovarian cysts, I had PCOS, I had something called Factor V Leiden, which I really want to focus a bit upon that today because it's, um, a blood clotting disorder that affects a lot of women unknowingly and causes infertility.