Things to watch... mainly weight gain, bloating. You'll be fine until after the trigger, just sore and uncomfortable. After the trigger, your ovaries will become even more sensitive - I'd suggest staying at home and resting - you really don't want to do anything else. Because your ovaries will start leaking fluid into your abdomen, dehydration is a big problem. Drink gatorade - most important after collection. I've also been told that sustagen helps, as well as eating a high-protein diet. One thing I learned the hard way - it is important to keep eating as well. As for the gatorade, 2-3L per day minimum.

Having been through it twice now, as boring as it was, I'd go the hospital way rather than toughing it out at home. A few things to note about hospitals, though. Make sure you are going to a major hospital that will actually know how to treat OHSS. I live 4 minutes from a hospital, but made DH drive me to the one 20 minutes away - that's where the clinic had told me to go, where they'd had other women go, and where I knew they'd know what to do. My FS told me stories about women with OHSS being treated wrongly and having strokes. Other thing, make sure everyone you see in the hospital knows you're having IVF treatment, knows it's OHSS and knows there has been no embryo trasnfer. They flipped out slightly when a blood test on Wednesday morning showed HCG in my system (from a half-strength trigger on Friday night), as pregnancy does make OHSS worse. Don't let anyone do an internal exam on you unless they know for sure what they are doing - this is more for pain than anything else. The first scan I had was when I was still in the public teaching hospital - there was a med student present (I had a lovely time telling him all about PCOS, IVF and OHSS), and the doctor was explaining to him that if they'd just seen the scan of my ovaries, they'd be thinking ovarian cancer - my clinic has told me that they've had women being taken for unnecessary surgeries because of this. Probably a good idea to let your clinic know you're going to hospital, and which one you are going to (perhaps even ask them to suggest the best one for you?), and be very, very conscious of what each doctor and nurse does. The simple fact is that you are likely to be admitted to the obs/gyn ward - the nurses there are mainly used to dealing with women in labour, and women with new babies. They aren't that used to working with sick people. I'd have to remind some of them to get my meds, that I was supposed to have a blood test, that I was supposed to be weighed, that I was supposed to be back on the drip 4 hours ago...

The best thing about freeze all cycles - no crinone, no pessaries, no luteal phase support at all. Both times AF has arrived 8 days after EPU, and that's when things have really started to settle.

I'll be keeping my eye on you Mon. Anything else you want to know?

BW