16 eggs at EPU
15 were good to use
11 fertilised
3 made it to Blastocyst and are on ice
We are a little disappointed because you always hope for greatness. But 3 is better than none. Now we have to wait until they are comfortable to do an FET in about mid May. I feel fine, but apparently I am still at risk of OHSS until then???
They told me that they used a new technique of freezing called vitrification. Apparently they have been testing it for 2 years and have found that 80% of blasties survive the thawing this way. Has anyone else heard of this? They use a kind of long knitting needle with a thin hook on the end. Then they place a drop of solution on the hook and place one blastie in the drop. Then they touch the knitting needle to a frozen block of steel and it freezes in under one second. They supposedly defrost in pristine condition??? I think it obviously takes them longer to do than the test tube as they repeat the process for each embryo.
Also, has anyone found themselves bloated up and full of gas for a couple of weeks following EPU. My stomach is hard as a rock and doesn't seem to want to go down. I've been taking heaps of acidofallous (sp?), which isn't doing too much. Any tips?
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