Warning: Grouchy post ahead. 26 March 2015 (Thu) The 2nd night was indefinitely better. Hubby had delivered a sleeping eye mask so the lights no longer got to me. Snore Machine got discharged. The night shift nurses were different. They kept their phones off and were discreetly quiet. I slept... And I woke up feeling so much better. The pain had dwindled down...

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Day 2 in the hospital... 25 March 2015 (Wed) How do anyone sleep in a shared ward?? Here I am at KK Hospital, warded in what they called a B2 ward, together with 5 other luckless ladies. Hubby had tried to admit me to B2+ ward but beds were fully packed. B2 ward according to the brochure comes with: - 6 bedder -...

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Take a deep breath. This is a long post on my OHSS peak experience. 24 March 2015 (Tue) I got woken up by knives twisting in my abdomen in the middle of the night. I restrained myself for a couple of hours from waking hubby up to fly me to the 24 hour hospital clinic. This is Singapore; the most expensive city on Earth. The...

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The pain didn't go away. It got worse. After 3 doses of the gastric medicine on Sat and Sun, the conclusion was this was no gastric pain. I could still eat. But nausea had started to settle in at the same time. Peeing and pooing were painful, but I went regularly. 23 March 2015 (Mon) I woke up with the sharp pain in...

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21 March 2015 (Sat) The pain was intense. It felt like gastric pain, except I still had the bizarre appetite of a hippo. I was supposed to do my very first fresh cycle embryo transfer today. The lower abdomen was all cramped up, while my torso was attacked by knives. The impact of every step would send a searing pain to my abdomen....

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Have you ever met the dude who goes "Oh is test tube baby the one where you grow the baby in the test tube?" Anyway. IVF Intro For Noobs IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) in a nutshell works like this: 1. They take out the female's ovaries. 2. Your man squirts into a cup. 3. You inject the strong-looking sperms individually into pretty-looking eggs,...

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