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Somebody please give me a biology lesson

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JustPutSomeGlitterOnIt · 30/07/2018 19:47

Ok so I have 3 children and have started on the injection to avoid having any more.
But I have a theory about being on the injection.
A terrible, troubling theory.

Here are my premises:

  1. Menopause happens when I run out of eggs
  2. I am fertile up until I run out of eggs
  3. I run out of eggs by releasing most, and a few dying
  4. I don't release eggs on the injection
  5. Therefore I am just delaying my fertility, and I'm going to get to 50+ with all my little eggs nice and intact and be fertile up to like bloody eighty YEARS OLD!

Please somebody explain to me why I am wrong.

I'm 26 now, so I've got another entire LIFETIME in which to avoid a surprise.

Surely if I'm not releasing eggs, they're just sitting there until I come off the injection. And all of those years when normally you're releasing one a month and usually bleeding it out aren't going to happen. So my eggs will last far longer than if I were not on the injection. And menopause won't hit until I get rid of them all, which will only start to happen again once I come off the injection, which isn't going to be for DECADES.

No?

TIA

OP posts:
HermioneGoesBackHome · 30/07/2018 20:57

But I’m not sure that the egg quality would still be good enough at 50 or 55yo to lead to a pg even if the woman had taken the injection all her life.
It’s not just an issue with quantity but also quality

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