I agree with what Maruschke has said. We didn't do IVF for fertility reasons so I can't comment much for you about that side of things, but when it came to the actual IVF process I found it easier than I thought it would be as well. Once the ball got rolling things moved very fast for us. I started with daily injections of one med, then twice daily when the second med was introduced. The needs are really tiny (insulin sized needles) and they are in either individual syringes with a preset amount of med in them, or in "pen" syringes with the dose pre-set, so you don't have to sit there drawing up meds into syringes and getting nervous while you do that. I found the very first needle the hardest. I sat there going "ok, one, two, three, go....." and then just not moving, lol. I think I did my count down about 5 times before I actually did the first injection. Then laughed at myself because it was a real non-event haha.
For me personally I found egg pickup the hardest. I had quite severe pain for the couple of days after both my egg pickups. It was worse after my second egg pickup and I was still having pain about 4 days later. Then I freaked out when I was in the shower and something stringy came out from inside me. Luckily I worked in a medical field before having kids and I recognised it at stitch material. After feeling inside myself I found that there was also another stitch still inside me. I rang my clinic the next day and they checked my records and found out that they had forgotten to tell me that I had had some additional bleeding during my procedure which required internal stitches. The said it was a major fail on their behalf and were very apologetic as you can imagine. Apparently that sort of bleeding is pretty uncommon, and it's "unheard of" for the patient not to be told about it when in recovery.





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