Any comments or suggestions on Progesterone shots ?

[Khlokhlo]

Hello everyone! I am new in this forum and am also new to IVF . I started my IVF journey on May and everything is going well so far I got my egg retrieval done , they were able to get 18 eggs, 14 were mature but only 2 fertilized! they already schedule my FET on July 23rd and am about to start my progeterone shots on the 18th ,. Am a little nervous but hoping for the best! Any comments or suggestions will be appreciated thank you!

[bextoliver]

I totally get being nervous. The needle is big! But it surprisingly doesn’t hurt that much. I found them to be less painful than the stims. They do kind of make your butt sore after the fact though. Kind of like sore muscles from a workout. My nurse recommended warming the area first then doing the shot and applying heat after and massaging the area. All the best!

[Khlokhlo in reply to bextoliver]

Thanks so much! It really takes away lots of my anxiety knowing the needles arent that bad 👍🏼I just keep saying to myself this will all be worth it at the end

[bextoliver in reply to Khlokhlo]

Me too! I don’t think I would do it for any other reason haha. Good luck!!

[Khlokhlo in reply to bextoliver]

Thank you soo much🙏🏼

[Charleexn2]

Good luck with your cycle lovely and welcome to the forum. I would say for the wait try to relax as much as you can as I drove myself a bit mental with over analysing every single potential pregnancy symptom😱. Totally easier said than done though and I think most struggle with this.

For your transfer you need a full bladder - my clinic didn’t tell me this, thankfully I’d not peed prior! 😂😂

I found the transfer to be the easiest part and had hardly any discomfort at all, it just felt like a smear test. Keeping my fingers crossed your wee embie is a sticky one xxx

[Khlokhlo in reply to Charleexn2]

Thank you soo much for your info and wishes 🙏🏼❤️ I am trying to stay as calm and relaxed as possible, good thing is after my transfer my clinic will do the pregnancy test one week after so I wont have to wait so long, not sure why its only one week but Oh well the sooner the better right? Am more exicted as I get closer to my transfer day and I have a lot of faith that everything will turn out ok , thanks again for replying and the tips as well