Day 15: FTC Egg Retrieval Instructions

You are scheduled to receive your HCG trigger injection on 4/19 @ 8:00 pm.

If using Pregnyl, Novarel or other intramuscular injection, it will be mixed using 1 cc - 2 cc of diluent into all of the powder. Ovidrel is in a pre-mixed syringe and is given subcutaneous. It is very important that the trigger injection be given at the scheduled time. Please page the practicioner on call if you have any questions or problems.

• Your last dose of Lupron/Ganirelix/antagon will be the day of your trigger shot.
• Your last dose of gonadotropins will be the day of / day before your trigger shot.
• You will begin taking Doxycycline the day of your trigger shot.
• You will not be seen at FTC the day following your trigger injection.

Please have nothing to eat or drink after midnight the night before your egg retrieval.**

• The morning of egg retrieval, take one 5mg tablet of valium with a small sip of water 1/2 hour before your scheduled arrival time.*
• Do not take your antibiotic the morning of retrieval.
• Your partner will take his lost dose of antibiotic the the morning of retrieval.
• Please arrive at the Outpatient Surgery Center, Suite 111, accessible through our Main lobby on 4/21 @ 7:30 am.
• Retrieval is scheduled to being at 8 am.
• Your partner will be asked to provide a semen specimen shortly after retrieval begins.
• We ask that you, your partner, or anyone else coming into our Surgery Center please refrain from any perfumes, lotions or other scented products. Please do not wear make-up, fingernail polish, jewelry, contact lenses, or scented products to your retrieval or embryo transfer appointments.
• Retrieval and recovery will take approximately 2 hours. You MUST have a ride to and from your procedure.
• Do not bring any personal belongings with you to your procedure.

When you return home, you will need to rest for the remainder of the day. You may eat and drink normally if you feel up to it. By the following day you should feel better.

The FTC IVF lab will call you the afternoon following your egg retrieval with an embryo report. They will begin the process of scheduling the embryo transfer, (usually 4 days after the retrieval).

Please call FTC if you experience any of the following:

• Excessive pain or tenderness not relieved by Tylenol.
• Temperature over 100 degrees.
• Bleeding heavier than a normal period.

Please do not bring children to retrieval or embryo transfer. Thank you.

* This is an outdated instruction. The Outpatient Surgery Center takes the medical history and performs its informed consent procedures immediately before the egg retrieval. For insurance purposes, you can't do this hopped up on goofballs.

** I woke in the night to Leah unscrewing the cap from the bottle of water she keeps at her bedside. I felt like slapping it out of her hand, but instead let her take one sip and then took the bottle away and placed in on the floor on my side of the bed.