Hi pinto8. You can take 2 paracetamol every 4hours, but no more than 8 tablets in 24hours. You must drink loads of water and watch your urine output. If it tails off and/or you become breathless you need to go to A & E. No antiinflammatories like ibuprofen. Lots of rest and if no better by morning see your GP. Hope you soon get some relief as it seems your ovaries are probably still a bit active. Diane
i had the exact same it lasted for about 5 days i just kept taking paracetamol and lots of rest. i couldn't move couldn't walk and found it hard to sleep. the pain does ease but theres nothing else that you can take unfortunately. i wish you a speedy recovery! xxx
I guess if your not doing embryo transfer you can have some ibuprofen which you can mix with paracetamol. 14 is a good number..... why the freeze all? Were you over stimulated?
No I'm doing egg sharing so I'm only having 7 but only 6 fertilized. I had to do because on my second scan they found a polyp so they said it was impossible to do the transfer so the only option was freezing. So now have to wait for appointment and then surgery date.
Hi pinto8, how's the pain now? I was in pain after EC also but my clinic prescribed co codimol which took the edge off & gave me an out of hours no to call if in severe pain, but it eased off. If in doubt I would call clinic or 111 if your worried about OHSS x
Hiya you the first person on here other than me I've found who also described the pain as unbearable. The night after EC I almost threw up my dinner whilst having to go toilet same time. I could then only lay on bath room floor as pain was unbearable and I couldnt get back to bed.My OH was really worried and did consider A&E but I made it to bed and slept. I was dosed up on co-cordimol too as paracetamol don't touch me. I was only supposed to have 2 days off but ended up taken 3. My boss was pretty good.
My advise call in sick and rest. I used my hot water bottle all the time even fell a sleep with it. I was better by day 5.
Yes the hot water bottle as been my best friend even today at work I was with it but I still have one more shift tomorrow that I have to go because my manager just don't understand what I 've been doing for her everything will take just a day and then I'm pregnant. I'll see how I wake up tomorrow and decide
If you haven't already, definitely give your nurse a call.
I was in terrible pain after my EC and when I called on day 2 post EC they said I could start taking ibuprofen with cocodamol/paracetamol. A hot water bottle on the front, one on the back and a couple of sofa days and I got there!
Really sorry to hear you're struggling but it definitely should start improving soon. Check in with your nurse anyway xXx
Thank you I've tried to take some days off but because they changed my egg collection twice by the time they booked it was impossible to change my days at work.
Sorry to hear that hope you get better result now.
I so hope u are feeling a bit better today my dear and if not I hope u rang in sick.definitely call the clinic if no better as u shouldn't be feeling that bad with no help!!when u get s chance, let us know how u r xxx
I was exactly the same, I found the egg collection the hardest and most painful to recover from. I just took Codine and paracetamol. It wasn't enough but that's all I was advised to take. It did start getting better after 3-4 days after. Hopefully you feel better soon 🙂🙏🏻🤞🏻
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