Potential donor - can't find ovaries on scan?!

[JellyTheWellyphant]

Hi. I'm halfway through the process of donating eggs anonymously. Just been for a scan and they couldn't find my ovaries - anyone else experienced this? I do have a history of PCO but was told this wouldn't be a problem, have had three children and ovaries have always been seen on all gynae/pregnancy scans before . Sonographer said it could be because ovaries are too small/not producing follicles, and depending on blood results I may be no good as a donor. Our family is finished but I'll be incredibly sad if it turns out my ovaries have conked out before I've managed to donate!

It would be unusual not to see them on an internal scan (assuming that's what you had). I guess wait and see what the blood show and if they are all ok then have another scan. Sometimes ovaries can be obscured by bowel has etc. They do need to be able to access them easily to retrieve the eggs though.

Good on you for deciding to donate eggs, I had IVF and it's not something I'd go through for altruistic reasons so am very impressed!

Yeah, I was wondering how they'd manage retrieval if they couldn't flipping see them! Bloody uncomfortable scan too, she had a (very long) go internally and then tried trans-abdo and said she saw one ovary but didn't sound too certain and then couldn't find it again. Appareny my uterus is also in a very odd position - thanks kids, you've twisted my innards. Will just have to wait for the bloods - I hate waiting!

Well, I've got a mahoosive cyst on one of mine at the moment, and at the last scan monitoring that with the NHS, they did have to work a bit to find the other one as it was tucked away and hiding. The women doing it just said sometimes it is surprisingly hard to find what you know is there! Plus she also pointed out that fertility clinics can be crap (she said this more professionally, but this was the message) at scans as they're really only used to seeing quite a narrow range of things.