How Do I Start My IVF Journey or Related to Infertility Which Treatment I start?
My IVF Journey
When I got married, I was happy and hoped that the baby would be born, maybe within a year or next year. There was hope, and there was no disappointment at all. Then one year passed, another year, and similarly, ten years passed while waiting for the baby, and then despair had settled in my heart.
How do I start my IVF journey?
In the beginning, the gynecologists did my ultrasound and examined my body from the inside. They said everything is fine. You are fit, and your husband is too.
The gynecologist gave me lots of vitamins and minerals, which I have been eating for a long time.
In this long period of time, the doctor did ovulation induction. In ovulation induction, I took medicine to ovulate an egg, and if the egg was the actual size, she would be injected with a trigger injection for ovarian stimulation. Because of this, the chance of conceiving would increase. But even this method did not work.
Then a doctor said, Maybe the tubes in the uterus are blocked due to an unidentified issue; the cause of this may be that the baby is not having them. So one day, an HSG test was done through a very painful procedure with the help of a blue solution, which was injected into the uterus through an instrument. The blue solution was injected into the tubes, which was seen going to the X-ray machine on the other side, where the solution could not be stopped and the blockage could be seen, but in my case, the blue solution went further and no blockage was seen. This test showed that my tubes are also open.
Then, after some time passed, I went to another gynecologist, who said, “You should do your laparoscopy, in which a camera will be inserted inside the abdomen through surgery to see where the defect is and why the baby is not being born.”.
Then, at the appointed time, I was given anesthesia, due to which I fainted immediately. When I regained consciousness, I had a laparoscopy. After the laparoscopy, the doctor reported to me and said that everything was fine inside. We did not see any defect.
Then the gynecologist told me to wait three months. “Maybe you conceive by yourself because after laparoscopy, usually all blockage would have been cleared, then there might be a great chance you conceive naturally.” After waiting for three months, I am not expected, so we visited the doctor’s clinic. She put two options infront of us. To do either IUI or IVF.
She described that IVF is better and more successful than IUI, so we decided to select IVF (in vitro fertilization); the doctor gave me some vitamin pills fifteen days before the treatment so that I could eat them and get rid of the deficiency in my body during the treatment.
Approximately 15 days after the initial contact with each patient, the doctor performed a demonstration of embryo transfer via catheter insertion into the uterus to see the success of the procedure. During the procedure, the doctor checked the patient’s level of pain.
The treatment began after the menstrual period. First, an ultrasound was done, and they saw whether the eggs ovulate or not; then a trigger injection was given daily, which was to be helpful in making as many eggs as possible. A trigger injection is actually ovarian stimulation hormone therapy. A doctor called the next day to remove the eggs. A sperm sample was also taken from my husband at that time.
Anesthesia was injected into my body on that day, knocking me unconscious, after which five eggs were removed from my ovary and placed in a petri dish. The doctor also washed male sperm and dropped it in the petri dish. In petri dishes, sperm and ova meet and fertilise.
Three embryos were formed, which were kept in the incubator for two days in order to be further divided into cells and to grow strong embryos that would stick to the uterus after they entered.
Two days later, when the three embryos split into three to four cells, they were injected through a large catheter and inserted into the uterus. They told me to lie down for a while. As soon as the embryo was transferred, the doctor was told to rest and not to do any hard work. No medicine was taken without consulting a doctor. For fifteen days, I rested, did not take any medicine, and stayed away from hard work. That hopeful era ended in despair. Because after 15 days, my pregnancy report was negative.
