I'm just about to start my first cycle of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) IVF treatment. Most people have heard of regular IVF, but not everyone has heard about PGD. In simple terms, it's a technology that helps people who carry genetic diseases and whose future children are at risk of being born with that disease, to have healthy children. i'm hoping that this blog will help me to do a bit of venting as I go through this cycle, but I also hope that it might be helpful to others who face the prospect of PGD IVF. There's little written from the patient's perspective on PGD and it can be quite isolating to be facing this treatment.
My husband and I are having PGD primarily because we both carry the genes for the disease Cystic Fibrosis. When we first started on this journey I started to write some thoughts down to help me document what was happening to us. The second of my blog entries today gives an extract from that account. It will give some background to what is quite a complicated situation. Thanks for reading.
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