Day 29 of IVF Cycle
Day after Egg Collection
Day before Embryo Transfer
Well I survived and am here to tell the tale!
Monday night I took the sedative at 10pm which prompted more tears from me. I was really worried that I would be totally out of things until Wednesday. Thankfully, it just relaxed me and calmed me down and I was able to get a good nights sleep.
On Tuesday morning I took the second sedative and two paracetamols. They weren't the swallowing kind..yup...suppositories. There is no dignity in this process!
We sped off to hospital and were told that Saddam was running late, so OH went off and did his side of things.
He had the forethought to bring some reading material ...ahem.... from home and wasn't gone long. He said it felt like ages.
We were in this side room waiting to be seen. I felt pretty calm and a little woozy from the sedative. They took us into the egg collection room .... more stirrups! I must have been more woozy than I thought because I was aware of someone taking some blood from me and sticking one of those things in the back of my hand but it all felt a bit remote. I remember thinking there seemed to be loads of sheets over my lower half. My hypnotherapy CD kicked in which was lovely. In fact one of the nurses asked me for a copy afterwards. Saddam was there doing the collection and behind her was a hatch in the wall where the eggs were passed to people waiting who were checking and counting them. They do it in a darkened room.
OH was behind me in a natty open backed gown and those things they wear over their shoes. He was wonderful and stroked my hair throughout and was giving me egg number checks. Towards the end it started to get a bit painful and I was wincing a bit. I was tremendously relieved that it was all over. Then something else went up there. Saddam must have been moping up, I think.
How many eggs?...... 22!!!!
They took me back to a bed where I snoozed for a bit before going back to the room where we waited beforehand. OH was instructed to go and get some drugs for me which seemed to take ages. See below...
The reason for these extra drugs is that there is a danger of me over stimulating. 22 is a pretty high number of eggs to collect. I think they normally expect between 10 and 15.
The drugs are progesterone and something else (a blood thining agent). The progesterone goes in my tummy as before but the other... is in my bum. Which means that OH and his fear of needles has to be conquered. He did the first one yesterday very bravely. I was so proud of him.
Came home and spent the rest of the day snoozing in bed.
I don't feel too bad this morning but it really hurts to pee. I'm waiting on a call back from the nurse about that.
I have to have some blood tests at the hospital. One tomorrow before embryo transfer, one on Monday, one Friday and one the following Tuesday to check I'm ok and not overstimulating. One downside of the progesterone injections is that you get PG symptoms sore boobs, nausea, tiredness, etc. and you don't bleed. So I won't know if it has worked until we go for the test. My temp chart was interesting this am though!
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/fec25 That's some temperature surge!
Anyway, now for the most important bit. Just had a phone call from the hospital. They were able to injection 17 of the eggs they collected yesterday and this morning 9 have fertilised.
I'm so relieved. Weird that it's relief more than happiness.
Going in tomorrow morning for the embryo transfer. Keeping everything crossed that we get some to freeze too.
H
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