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[quote=Anonymous]You'll have shots. Lots of shots every day.

You'll be at the doctor's office every other day.

You will wait for calls from your nurse telling you how you did, and whether or not you will be scheduled for the ER.  That may or may not happen.

Assuming all goes well, you'll go into the ER.  This is a minor surgery.  You will need a few days to recover.

Depending on how many eggs they collect, you will or will not be miserable.  I produced 30 eggs at my first and only cycle at 41.  Needless to say, I had a bad case of OHSS because no one expected me to respond that way.  My stomach blew up as if I was eight months along.  I had to scramble for maternity clothing. Lots of uncomfortable looks at the office.  I was in excruciating pain, my abdominal muscles were screaming, couldn't turn properly, couldn't bend, had to do everything very gingerly.

If you don't get pregnant, the symptoms go away after 2 weeks. I did get pregnant and they didn't go anywhere until about 4 months and then it was a different sort of bloating.

Then you'll have to wait for the reports every day telling you how many eggs fertilized, how many embryos you produced and how many died on each subsequent day till day 5 or 6.  They will tell you how many remained and are good to transfer.  That number can be zero, one or many. You won't know till it happens.

Then you'll have to decide whether to test before transferring or not.

Then you'll have to decide how many to transfer.

Then you'll transfer, which is not a big deal, and enter a two-week waiting period, during which you will be on needles and pins every day till your ultrasound.  If the ultrasound confirms pregnancy, you'll be stressing out again to see if you miscarry, because many do.

At about 10 weeks they will release you to your general OB.  Then you'll get to stress about miscarriage again.

Then you'll do prenatal testing and stress about whether it was all for nothing.

If all goes well, that will be it.  For many women, it isn't.  Then it's rinse and repeat for as long as your wallet and stress tolerance can bear.

I was lucky to conceive on the first cycle and have a bunch of embryos to freeze. NO FREAKING WAY would I toss the embryos and go through this BS again if I don't have to.  For what, a couple of thousand dollars storage fees? You're nuts. [/quote]

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