If there was a movie about infertility, it would have a scene like the one I experienced today, when the hospital carpark attendant said, “oh, you’ve changed your car”.
It would also include a scene from my bathroom where I make an amazing discovery. Earlier in the year, I was put on three months of DHEA before beginning an IVF stimulation. DHEA is a scary hormone drug, which is marketed as a supplement. It is supposed to reverse the effects of aging and encourage more of your dormant follicles to become antral follicles (thereby raising your ovarian reserve (AMH) and artificially lowering your FSH as it helps your body to ovulate).
Unfortunately for me, DHEA makes me younger in the sense that I get massive bumpy breakouts and a lot of oily buildup in my skin and hair. I also started to notice these little white corpuscles, forming in the soft underskin of my eyes. Disturbingly, they began to spread and the little lumps were visible in small patches, with one particularly large white-headed bubble.
I really fretted about this, because it was there every time I looked in the mirror and after several botched attempts to lance it, I gave up and was resigned to paying for laser removal at an older age.
I guess after some time, the effect must be starting to fade because I noticed after a particularly hot, sweaty gym session that I had scratched the smaller of the corpuscles open and when I went to squeeze it (because you know, I just can’t resist a good zit), I was rewarded with a perfect, intact white bubble of pus.
Encouraged, I started in on the large corpuscle and to my surprise and delight, the skin erupted and a giant round glob of solid gel-like pus started to emerge! It was huge, even against the tissue
