Pregnyl advice

[Anonymous]

Hi ladies - I am a return visitor to these boards. I did fertility treatments two years ago and have a 1 YO DD. We are now trying for #2 and I need to trigger tomorrow night. I still have flashbacks to hating the pregnyl shot (mostly b/c it would hurt to sit down for like 2 weeks AND because it would take my husband several minutes to inject me). I asked the nurse at Dominion today and she said it should be a lickety split shot - my husband says it's too thick for that - anyone have any thoughts? I googled and others said it was a slow shot too, so maybe the nurse has no idea? To manage the two weeks of pain, she said to heat the site afterwards for a few days to keep it from hurting (and no I am not a huge pain wimp!). I do always have them draw the target.

[Anonymous]

I just took Pregnyl last month with no problem and no residual pain. Did your H mix in the right amount of liquid? The mixture was not thick and it was a quick shot. My husband looked at the video on RE's website and YouTube for guidance.


Good luck, I hope it easier and less painful this time around for you!

[Anonymous]

It's not thick and it is as quick as the person wielding the needle makes it. Not sure why you hurt for 2 weeks unless your husband did something wrong as that is a bit extreme. The thick shot is the progesterone in oil shot and that one can hurt too.

[Anonymous]

Any chance he used the mixing needle? (I am assuming there is one like with novarel)

[Anonymous]

Ha all good questions for which I don't know the answer - I made him watch video twice and do it. I hid from the needle in the bedroom until injection time! However, we are triggering tonight and I have all of your comments prepped for him - btw I'm really not a huge wimp only took Advil/Tylenol after a c-section but boy does this area ache after the darn shot. Ill be telling him to speed it up!!!!

[Anonymous]

Op here - they called and moved my trigger to tonight instead if last night - now Monday for IUI - I peed on an opk and its almost positive do I pray we don't miss this egg

[Anonymous]

Well, if your IUI isn't until Monday, you can have good old regular sex tonight just to cover your bases. We always did with IUI anyway.

[Anonymous]

Op here - I have like zero cm so that's why the iuis - I have had two and both worked (one miscarriage) - so we probably will try sex just in case it might work - when I use pregnyl I can feel myself ovulate so ill know whether the IUI timing is ok or not

[Anonymous]

Ok OP here - he did the injection in like 2 seconds this time instead of two minutes - we realized he forgot to pause and draw up to see if there was blood in the syringe, but based on my googling that isn't really necessary anymore anyway - forgetting to do it made my arse hurt much less this time - I think that is what took so long the last time!!!