Ovarian Hyper Stimulation

It seems that I have developed this awful thing called ovarian hyper stimulation. I'm still trying to understand what it means. But apparently it's a reaction to all the hormones they've had me on and can occur in some women. I'm bloated about as big as a 4-5 month along pregnant woman. Gained 3 lbs in 2 days of fluid in my abdomen. And I hurt and ache like nothing I've ever felt before. It hurts to breath, cough, laugh, and I really can't sneeze. It hurts to lay down, roll over, walk, or even just to bend over. I can't put shoes on.

The doc has me on Gatorade round the clock, massive amounts. I'm also taking fiber supplements as well as eating lots of protein. But after an ultrasound with him today, my hyper stimulation is borderline and it could get a lot worse (I'm supposed to throw up and get a fever if it gets real bad). He said he will not do the embryo transfer on Saturday if I don't start feeling better. Apparently the hyper stimulation gets worse once pregnant and I could gain as much as 20 pounds of fluid and be hospitalized! No thanks.

We have an appt on Friday to see if I've improved and to make the call on the embryo transfer. For now we just wait. So we are praying and asking others to pray with us that the worst of this is over and we'll be able to do the transfer. It's our big shot at a live transfer, if we can't do it they will freeze all our embryos and wait for me to feel better so they can put those in. But the chances decrease some with frozen embryos. Who wants frozen embryos put in your body anyway? This whole thing is already scientific and crazy enough I think. Sigh. But our Dr. says to stay encouraged, that I have an excellent chance of becoming pregnant and that their new vitrification process (freezing) is really good.

So that's our update. We may or may not have an embryo put inside me on Saturday. For now we are hoping the hyper stimulation doesn't get worse, and maybe, just maybe, starts to get better.