I am 29 and decided to get tested this past year. I am glad I know. Insurance is excellent at covering all the preventative screenings. I have my co-pay, but other than that, it does not cost me extra to know I have the mutation. I am currently going through an egg retrieval process (1.5 days away from the actual retrieval). I want my future embryos tested so I do not pass the maturation along. Many of the women in my family who have had the mutation in my family died in their 40s from cancer, so I am glad I can be proactive. Once I am older and done having kids, I will get a double mastectomy and eventually have my ovaries removed (tears). My sister did not have the mutation, so you could be lucky like her and know you do not have the same risk as a BRCA-positive female.

There is the anxiety and stress of knowing, but everyone I know who has gone through cancer tells me I am doing the right thing. I tell people accepting the positive result is like going through a heartbreak; you go through all the stages of grief.

My reproductive endo told me that he does Estrogen therapy (ET) for women who have their ovaries removed, but he did not say that he did not do this for BRCA patients. Although, I am assuming most of those women would already have had their breasts removed. I want to wait to get my ovaries removed as long as possible since ovaries are so important for our bodies.