I went in at 7:15 yesterday morning for my egg retrieval surgery. Long story short - they were able to retrieve 15 eggs during the procedure, which my husband and I were both pleased with. After about an hour in recovery, I was able to go home. I felt okay, until my pain pills started to wear off. I'm one of those people who can't seem to take anything for pain without horrid side effects. Hydrocodone (Lortab/Vicodin) makes me vomit, propoxyphene (Darvocet) makes my tongue swell, and apparently oxycodone (Percocet)makes me itchy. And to think some people use these drugs recreationally. No thank you!
We decided to go with the lesser of three evils and have my doctor prescribe Percocet. We ran into a problem, however, when the pharmacy at the hospital (where James was planning on picking up my prescription during my surgery) didn't carry Percocet. So, the doctor gave him a paper script and told him to take it to our pharmacy on the way home (they won't accept faxed scripts for heavy narcotics). James dropped me off first and helped me get settled on the couch, then went to get my prescription filled. Turns out the doctor didn't sign the script, so they wouldn't fill it. We had to make numerous phone calls to get things figured out and James ended up having to go across town, back to my doctor's office, to get a SIGNED script, then back to the pharmacy to get it filled. In the meantime, I had a nice 2 hour long window of no pain pills in my system. NOT GOOD! Luckily, I had some ibuprofen that I was able to take in the meantime.
The rest of the day I spent resting on the couch. Once I got the Percocet, I was able to stay on top of the pain for the most part, but was feeling really nauseous. It's hard to say what was causing it...could've been the anesthesia, pain pills, other medicine, stomach bug (since I wasn't feeling very well the day before the surgery either). Anyway, since then, that's been the biggest annoyance. The actual pain from the surgery itself is nothing compared to the feeling of needing to vomit everytime you sit up or open your eyes
I slept okay last night and have continued to rest on the couch all of today. I got a call around 11:00 from the embryologist. Out of the 15 eggs they retrieved, they were able to inject 14 of them using ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection). Out of those 14, 6 of them fertilized. I'm kind of disappointed that less than half of them fertilized, but we can only hope that everything will go smoothly from here and on Day 5...maybe we'll still have 6 healthy embryos!
We'll get our next embryo report on Monday. They're going to leave them alone until then so they can grow like crazy!
Hoping for a good report Monday!
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