Leftover ivf medication

[kirstyblue]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me the best thing to do with leftover meds please? I have boxes of unopened medication- pessaries, burslin, opened boxes of injections still in the fridge etc. I know hospitals would probably never pass on to another patient even though it’s all opened, but it just doesn’t feel right throwing it all out. Even if it was used for training purposes? I’d just rather it helped someone else in one way or another rather just got thrown out.

Thanks x

[Lovefood1984]

Yeah unfortunately you can’t give it to anyone else 🙁 how about contacting your clinic to see if they’d like some for teaching? I gave them mine back and I’m sure they used the buserelin etc for training purposes and when they ran out they just used water in the containers x

[kirstyblue in reply to Lovefood1984]

Thank you. Yeah I’m going to ring them on Monday. I can imagine most people have so much leftover. It just feels wrong to chuck it out though. It’s taken me so long to accept I’m actually pregnant and be ready to get rid of it 😂 X

[Lovefood1984 in reply to kirstyblue]

Luckily mine was just the price of an NHS prescription so I handed it over on egg collection day and I had the right amount of pesseries to get me to OTD so nothing to throw out. If I’d paid for it myself I’d be keeping tight ahold in case I needed it again! Congratulations on your pregnancy, how far along are you now? I can’t believe my little one is 4 months already 😱 x

[kirstyblue in reply to Lovefood1984]

Mine was all through the nhs but I have so much left. Thank you 😊 I’m 19 weeks. Crazy because bump doesn’t feel as massive as I thought it would for 19 weeks! Wow I bet time flys. How are you finding it being a Mum? Amazing I bet xx

[Lovefood1984 in reply to kirstyblue]

Looking back at holiday photos when I was 20 weeks I don’t look like I have much of a bump, even as I got bigger it felt uncomfortable for me but the bump didn’t look overly large 😊 in fact I had a floaty loose maternity dress that I never ended up wearing as it made me look fat rather than pregnant 😂 so I wouldn’t worry too much.

It’s amazing but very hard work! I don’t think anyone prepares you for the feelings, most of the time you are happy and loving things, but you can feel overwhelmed and tied down/bored by doing the same things day in day out and trying to juggle baby as well as chores etc. (Especially when they have catnaps of 20mins 😂) Most of the time I have feeding anxiety since she dropped from the 87th percentile to the 25th due to a cows milk intolerance and is on special prescription milk which is now on a manufacturing shortage (gp trip for me next week to see what else we can get to tide us over), didn’t help last week she started having half her formula for 4 days and going hours between feeds. We ended up with an overnight stay at the children’s A&E department 🙈 (no one could find anything wrong with her but she was really out of sorts by that time and the only advice off a dr in the morning was to wean early 😡 luckily she’s now back up to full quota and some!) I wouldn’t change things for the world but you sometimes do pine a little for your old life where you weren’t woken up at night and could spend sundays doing nothing if you wanted 😂 You’ll love it 😍 x

[kirstyblue in reply to Lovefood1984]

I’m sure bump will suddenly pop out! I think it has and my partner thinks I actually look pregnant but to me I think I just look like I have a pop belly from eating too much🤰🏻😂

Oh no I’m glad your little girls now doing okay. Must have been such a difficult time.

It’s completely life changing isn’t it having a baby but I’m so ready for it.

I’m glad your doing well and enjoying motherhood 😊 xx

[ChloBo84]

I had loads of ivf medications left over from my failed fresh and frozen cycles.

I was amazingly lucky to manage to fall pregnant 3 months after my failed frozen cycle, and am now 33 weeks.

We’ve now decided that if we were to ever think about having another baby, if it didn’t work, I wouldn’t go through another ivf cycle, so have been slowly been taking all my medications back to the chemist.

Sucks to know these will all just get chucked away as someone else could really benefit from it.

Congratulations on your pregnancy hun xx

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Firstly, congratulations! I hope you’re keeping well. We’re at a similar point in our pregnancies; i’ll be 20 weeks on Monday. Some days I feel bump is massive, other days it almost feels like it deflates and looks more like a ‘food baby’ 😉

Re the meds, all old, unused medication can be taken to the chemist who disposes of it for you.

[Sooikim]

Hi Kirsty, drop it off at your local pharmacy. I drop all my used needles and unused medication at Boots.

[roxannacar]

Return it to the pharmacy.