The actual egg collection wasn't painful at all because of the local anaesthetic they put on your ovaries, so that wasn't a problem. By the time I was in recovery, about 5 minutes after it was finished I was in a bit of pain, nothing worse than period pains really but I was given a heat pack which was quite good. I had the collection on Wednesday & was fine to go to work on the Friday (I don't work Thursday but if I did I would have had the day off). I was in a bit of pain up until about lunch time Saturday, so pretty well 3 days after, but it wasn't anything I needed panadol for just an annoying ouchy feeling.

I haven't had the hystogram one, so can't compare sorry.

HTH