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I experienced OHSS during my first cycle of IVF in 2006, . As I said in my story , my first cycle was text book, . It went so smoothly and I was a little young and nievenaive. I never really thought about what was happening to me and my body , I just went with the flow I didn't know what was going on really anyway. So anyway I had my egg retrieval on the 26th April 2006 and they collected 15 eggs,. On the 28th we transfered April, I had 2 embryos transferred with no problems. We went back to our caravan to relax for a few days but on the Sunday late morning I had the urge to goto go the toilet but , regardless to of how much I wanted to pee , it just wasn't happening, . Within half an hour of this i I was on the floor in aganising agonising pain in my tummy my . My husband rang the IVF unit out of hours service who told me I had to get to the hospital as soon as possible. Well the The ride to the hospital seemed like forever , I was in the back of the car screaming in pain and my . My tummy had swollen so much so that when we arrived at the hospital they wanted to take me upto up to the labour ward as they thought thats what I was happeningin labour. I was taken to the gyne gynae ward , and lots of test where tests were done including , and most inportantly importantly, input and output of fluids. Yes, Yes I had to pee in a jug and measure it, ! It turns out that I was suffering from OHSS . The reason my tummy had swollen so much was due to fluid leaking from the follicles in my overies from ovaries after the follicles that they had retrieved 4 days earlier and it egg collection. The fluid was collecting in my abdoman abdomen and pressing on my organs and my bladder which is why I couldn't for the life of me pee. I was kept in hospital for about 4 days to continue monitoring my urine input and output and also some pretty strong pain relief, . I was finally allowed home when my output matched my input , as this shows showed the condition was improving. Over the next 2 weeks we waited for our pregnancy test day to come and we was over joyed were overjoyed when it showed positive, . I still had to rest a lot because I was still in alot a lot of pain from the OHSS , and still had another 3 weeks to our first scan. On our the first scan all was well with the baby , a healthy heartbeat was visible but so was it also showed 2 very swollen Overies ovaries and 4 lutheal cyst cysts each measuring 10cm in size each so it was no wonder I was in so much pain, ! As the pregnancy progressed , the pain eased and the swelling became a baby bump , but even at my 12 week scan my overies ovaries was 4 times the size they should of have been.
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