Weclome, Miss Scarlet - I hope you find this site as informative and supportive as I have.

Now... the injections, while the pen type thingy looks difficult to use it is actually fairly easy. I don't recall getting many side effects, but I was on puregon instead of gonal F. The listed side effects for both are headache, indigestion, weight gain, dizziness, stomach cramps, diarrhoea, breast tenderness and bloating. You may not actually get any of those, though.

When it comes to taking time off for EPU - you'd probably be best to follow the advice of your clinic. Normally it is suggested that you should be able to return to work the following day. I'm a bit of a worst-case scenario and was off work for three weeks with pretty bad OHSS - something you want to avoid at all costs!For transfer - generally just that day, I probably would have been able to return to work the same day as transfer (mine was a FET cycle, there was no transfer with my full cycle because I was too sick), but I wanted the time to rest and relax rather than racing around stressing about everything else. I also took the day of my final blood test off work so that I could be alone to deal with the result, whatever it was.

I only had one embryo transferred, because we had blastocyst embryos, are relatively young and it was our first cycle, we weren't given the option to have any more than one. Some clinics work differently, though.

Good luck with everything, and feel free to join us in the LT-TTC and AC buddy thread.

BW