2/8/2017 5 Comments Day after egg retrieval.Okay! My egg retrieval was yesterday and I wasn't able to write an update because I was, first off, drugged to the heavens, and secondly, in quite a bit of pain. When I got to the clinic, we were surprised by a visit to an office where we were charged $350. I didn't know there was an "administration fee" but we paid it because, well, what else could we do? We got a free cycle, so I figured we got off easy.
Then we went into the surgery area. I changed and then got an IV in my hand. That was literally the most uncomfortable part of the whole thing. I am so sick of needles and having a piece of plastic shoved into a vein in my hand was shitty. And it hurt. After a while, we went into the room where the procedure was done. As soon as they gave me the meds to "relax" me, I was all but passed out. I was conscious (it was called conscious sedation) but apparently they thought I was passed out. I could hear my doctor saying things like "you'll feel a bit of pressure on the right", et cetera. I really didn't care. I was feeling pret-ty good. (I was actually on fentanyl, which scared me because yesterday before we left there was a story on the news about the fentanyl crisis, ha.) Afterwards I was super out of it for about 20-30 minutes and as soon as I could pee, they let me go. I was feeling fine (the drugs were still in my system, which I didn't think about) and was like, pfht, this is easy! Then when I got home and woke up from my nap, I had really bad cramps. I could FEEL my ovaries. I can't explain it but I could FEEL my insides. It was weird and painful. J was great, he took care of me and ordered Thai food for dinner ;) I read somewhere that you shouldn't eat sugar for two weeks after retrieval, which is actually our regular diet (we eat sugar on "cheat day"). But I made an exception yesterday and had some carbs because I was craving them. Last night I was on extra-strength Tylenol and it was not doing the trick. But I survived. Today I woke up with considerably less cramping. I have a little bit, but it's as manageable as regular period cramps. The gross stuff? - IVF meds caused constipation. - After egg retrieval, the most painful thing was farting. And you're super bloated, so you WANT to release gas. But it hurts. - Speaking of gas, the ENTIRE time I was taking injections, I was a gas machine. No one has ever mentioned this in any of the blogs or vlogs I've read. They call it "bloating"... I've felt bloated without feeling gassy before. So I wasn't expecting it. A lot of people tell you that after ER, you'll feel so bloated it's like you're three months pregnant (whatever THAT feels like! How do all these infertile people know what it's like to be three months pregnant??). I felt that bloated BEFORE the procedure and it continued. I don't feel as bad today. Not sure if you feel that bloated because your ovaries are so big or if it actually has to do with the ER for some people. But lordy, I felt huge yesterday. Also my boobs are like planets. Just sayin. So that's it! OH, and obviously there's the matter of how many eggs we got, right? We ended up with 16 eggs! I read somewhere that 15 is the optimal amount, so 16 isn't bad. Some people want a LOT of eggs (like 20) but my nurse said it's quality, not quantity. We're really happy with that result and we're very hopeful that J's sperm is strong enough to fertilize my eggs. If it doesn't, we have donor sperm. Today we'll find out how everything went and how many eggs and sperm made it. Fingers crossed for good news!
5 Comments
Vanessa
10/3/2018 04:44:27 pm
Thank you for sharing your painful farts. I'm about 7 hours out from my egg retrieval this morning and farts are the death of me. Google and your blog rescued my worries. 😂
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Harlston
3/13/2019 04:15:24 am
This made me laugh! I am 2 days post ER and after a night of truly insidious non-stop farting (my poor OH was horrified by what I was producing) I started to worry that maybe I have OHSS. But your post has put my mind at ease, that it’s just a smelly side effect. Thanks!
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Wigg
6/17/2019 07:55:23 am
Thanks so much for your blog- could show this to my husband as a prove I am not planning to kill him with my farts!
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SM
8/21/2020 08:58:11 pm
Thank GOD for this post. I was starting to panic. But you described everything I’m feeling. Thank youuu 🙏🏽🙏🏽
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