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Sam McCuish (UK)
Chapter Four: The ups and downs of fertility
treatment
I can honestly say that, on the whole, the
treatment was OK. From Down regulation (when all your natural
hormones are suppressed using a nasal spray or monthly injection)
to embryo transfer, it took just four weeks. It took about 11 days
until I was down regulated and then I had my first injection and
then again in another 10 days. Then the HCG booster was
administered, 36 hours before egg retrieval. We got eight eggs. The
egg collection was fine and I slept through the whole thing, and
pretty much the rest of the day. Five eggs fertilised but only two
were viable on day three. We had those two embryos transferred and
we were happy with this.
At times during our treatment I felt a bit lonely, as I did not, at
that time, know anyone else who had been through fertility
treatment. Sometimes I found it difficult to express my concerns
about the outcome with my mother and brother, as this is just one
of the areas of fertility treatment that people find difficult to
deal with. They also were not fully aware of what was happening
when, and this was a decision that we had made, in order to take
the pressure off. No one else knew what was going on, and I also
felt that, were the treatment to be unsuccessful, no one would know
what had happened. I would feel like I had lost a baby and I would
have to continue as normal. I also developed OHSS, Ovarian
Hyperstimulation syndrome toward the end of my treatment and this
was very uncomfortable and worrying as I thought they might abandon
the cycle. Luckily they did not, and my injections were stopped as
soon as my symptoms appeared. I drank lots of water and had plenty
of rest and the pain and bloating subsided.
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