Possible depression post egg collection/transfer

[wishfulbean]

Hi all,

I'm 6 days post-egg collection and 1 day post-egg transfer.

Since driving home from the clinic after transfer I've been feeling either numbness or overwhelming sadness. I don't understand why? I'm really really pleased we had one egg make it to blastocyst and transferred as we had feared my autoimmune condition and the medications involved had damaged all of my eggs beyond hope.

I'm wondering if perhaps these feelings are a result of the IVF? Perhaps moving from all the injections to just the progesterone? Has any one else felt this way?

Hi, I don't have much experience as I'm just beginning a cycle of egg freezing but the trigger injection (or at least the one I have to have - Buserelin) does have a side effect of depression/anxiety that I was advised by the clinic so perhaps it might be to do with that? Perhaps others can come along to provide more advise/experience. It might help you though if you tell yourself it is a medical/hormonal imbalance and you'll be feeling more like yourself again soon though?

My first egg collection/transfer I just sat in the car afterwards and cried. I think it's more to do with the pressure/stress of the weeks leading up to collection - the medication, the stress of how many follicles, how big, how many eggs, fertilisation rates, and then the awful post collection 5 day wait for a blastocyst and it all just leads you to a mental/hormonal/emotional precipice

I found that it was easier on subsequent cycles have frozen transfers so I could have a break between egg collection and transfers to come to terms with everything

Thank you both @Rosiestraws and @ivfbeenbusy!

Both of you make really good points! It is all a bit stressful and that combined with potential side effects with medication probably explain why I am feeling this way.

Thanks for reassuring me. I was really concerned that I wasn't feeling as happy as I thought I would be. Thoughts wise I am and still keeping my hopes up during the 2ww and hoping my moods catch up to my thoughts.