'I thought I was hallucinating in the middle of the night. I didn’t know if I was awake or asleep, if I was having a nightmare about the pain.'
In 2018, Melissa Bradley, then 28, and her husband wanted to start a family. But she ran into a problem — sex hurt. At first, she wondered if it was her body adjusting to going off birth control. Then she began having lengthy periods. She visited her OB-GYN to make sure everything was OK.
During meals, Bradley also started to feel that she was getting full quickly and started eating less. And she found herself running to the bathroom frequently because she had to pee. “I thought I was hallucinating in the middle of the night. I didn’t know if I was awake or asleep, if I was having a nightmare about the pain,” she says.
“With my subset of cancer, which is very, very rare, they didn’t have any documented successful IVF transfers,” she says. “It was devastating each time I had an egg retrieval to have a painful procedure … and to have the news that, ‘Oh, we only got one,’ or ‘We only got a couple.’” “A lot of the time there are no symptoms, and even when it’s stage 3 or 4, symptoms are very vague,” Al-Wahab says, adding that"there is no screening test for ovarian cancer.”Melissa Bradley feels grateful her cancer wasn't so advanced and she could have fertility-sparing surgery. When she is done having children, she might need to undergo a hysterectomy to prevent a recurrence of ovarian cancer.
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