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[quote=Anonymous]When I was considering freezing my eggs, I tried to watch as many Youtube videos and read as many blogs as I could. Here are the two videos that were most helpful to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1K_p2hLeY8&ab_channel=WashingtonPost (This series by the Washington Post was especially eye opening about the whole process.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cxnONiq8G0&ab_channel=Refinery29

Now that I've done it, I feel I should tell you, the egg freezing process is quite a time consuming and emotionally consuming two week process:

1. There are lots of bloodwork and ultra sound appointments, and they become every other day or daily. I have a car which makes that easy, but I did have to go before work and find free street parking around 7:30 am each day.

2. I had to have someone come with me and take me home from the egg retrieval so you have to find someone who can be away from work for 3-4 hours (the process is only 30 minutes, but they monitor you after you come out of anesthesia).

3. I was most scared of the daily injections and blood draws, but those were painless thanks to Emla, a prescribed numbing cream that I got from my primary care physician (so you'll need to have one of them as well).

4. The medications made me dehydrated, tired, and more emotional. I had to take naps which is something I never do.

5. It was also upsetting when the initial follicle count didn't always match up with the follicles that were growing.

I cannot even begin to imagine the pain women face on this board as they actively try to conceive when they want to be mothers. That is why you may want to heed their advice to do this sooner rather than later, but I did want to offer at least my experience as I went through the egg freezing process. [/quote]

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