The egg retrieval

Again this post may be a little too much information for some, but it is meant as a record for my sake.

29.

29 eggs.  Wow. 

I am feeling a little overwhelmed about 29 eggs being retrieved today.  I can't help thinking that it is no wonder I hurt before the procedure!   The retrieval process was very straight forward and relatively non stressful.  It was also faster that I expected it to be.   I spent vastly more time recovering from the anaesthesia than the retrieval actually took.

So, not to scare anyone that will be going in for a retrieval, but......it hurt, a lot.   The first thing that I was aware of when I first woke up was that I hurt.   Like a nine out of ten on the pain scale kind of hurt.   A heating pad across my stomach helped some, but the thing that helped the most?   Emptying my bladder.  I currently have a very mild case of OHSS, in fact I had fluid in my abdomen before we even left the clinic.   So I have to measure all fluid intakes and outputs.   I know, gross.   Even worse?   The first output after the procedure was scary dark.....like brown sludge, dying of dehydration dark.   It seems to have resolved itself, but it really freaked me out.  I am thinking that it may have been from an antibiotic ointment or something that was used during retrieval, any other ideas?

I still really hurt, and that is after two regular tylenol and one prescription tylenol plus codine.  So far the drugs have just taken the sharpest edge off the pain.  I would say that I'm at about a seven on the pain scale still.  The heating pad, couch and netflix have been my best friends.   For the OHSS, I have to drink lots of gatorade, in fact I am not allowed regular water.   I am also supposed to have thirty grams of whey protein twice a day.   Smoothie anyone? 

We will get our fertilization report tomorrow, and I am going to bed until then!