ivf and symptoms in first week of pregnacy

I have been through numerous ivf cycles and am on my third pregnancy. I'll be honest the first time I got pregnant the only symptom i had was breast tenderness and i ended up miscarrying at 6 wks. The second pregnancy i had some breast tenderness and i was extremely thirsty and I went on 2 have a healthy little girl. I just had my bloodwork done and found out i'm pregnant for the 3rd time, I had no symptoms at all and 4 days before i was supposed 2 have the bloodwork i started bleeding a lot. i am still having some spotting(brown) and no cramping my hcg levels were well over 2000 so everyone is optimistic. I tell u all this to try and tell u not to stress. I think everyone responds differently to pregnancy and differently 2 different pregnancies. I was sure i wasn't pregnant after the bleeding, esp b/c i didn't feel like i did last time and I am pregnant. Good luck 2 everyone I know how hard and stressful this whole process can be, just try and stay positive.

like u all, today is the 9th day after the transfer, and am going crazy.

im on my 5th day after ET..and hoping in God's grace a successful result..IN JESUS NAME..Pray 4 me guys let's pray 4 one another..GODBLESS US ALL

I had one embryo implanted on Saturday (today is day four as of 10 am) and I am going insane. I have been told to keep calm and not stress. I am 38 and have been waiting for Eight years for this... I had nine eggs extracted but only one fertilized to blastocyst stage. They decided to tell me the day after transfer that the last one died. I have to wait another eight days to find out if I am pregnant (fingers crossed). Continuously tired, crying one minute happy the next, sore breasts, slight cramping, fluttering in the stomach? Is this good or bad? I will keep you all in my prayers... And I wish all the baby ads were banned from tv for the next week or so!

I had one embryo also transfered on Saturday. I know what you mean about going insane and wondering if every little twing is anything or every little cramp. I am a little older than you and I am hoping to carry my daughter and my son-in-laws baby for them. Will keep you in my thoughts and prayers and hope we can share positive pregnancy tests in 6 more days! Take care!

anonymous wrote:

Hey All,
I have been freaking out i'm on my day 3 post embryo transfer the only symptoms are mild nausea and at night some abdomen pain. I have to confess yesterday i took a pregnancy test and it cameout negative so today i'm in a bad mood . I should of known not to but the wait is killing me now all i can think is maybe it didn't work . Please ladies keep me in your prayers as i will do for you guys . We have been waiting to have a baby for 5 years and this is my first cycle i'm 26years old. Any idea lady's to keep me sane please don't hesitate.

I know the feeling - this is my second cycle. First one, they got 14 eggs but only one fertilized and that was abnormal, did not make it to transfer. This time, we had 16, 14 were ICSI'd, 13 fertilized, and we had a day 3 transfer of 2 7-cells. 4 more were cryo'd on day 5. I'm at day 7 post-transfer and have another week to go and my mood swings are incredibly crazy. I know I should not bother with a home preg test, the wait for next Friday is CRAZYCRAZY...

My symptoms are mild cramping, lots of white watery discharge (probably from prometrium suppository 2x a day), and mild nausea. I'm scared b/c this is the last possible try, we have no more money. Praying a lot and trying to be very healthy.

Hi all, 

I am day 21 Post IVF Transfer, Blood test has confirmed increasing HCG levels :) A Great Sign! However, We're still cautiously optimistic b/c I've had LOTS of complications with the IVF treatments in general & have been hospitalized 3 times in the past 3 weeks following transfer! I had/have SEVERE OHSS!!! Our first IVF attempt in Oct 2010 ended early b/c my body didn't react to the injections At All! Our 2nd attempt in Feb. 2011 also ended early b/c my body took the injections times 3000! I hyperstimulated. ON our 3rd times a charm attempt, we finally made it to the Egg retrieval!!! I had the retrieval on a Tues morning. Went home as instructed, slept all day Tues & the following Wed. Felt great so I went to work as normal on Thurs & Fri. Got up Sat morning feeling a little worn out, but insisted on cleaning the whole house anyhow & by 6pm that Sat evening I was in severe pain & miserable. But I knew that our transfer surgery was the next morning so I refused to let the pain stop me! I went in Sun morning went through the transfer perfectly, & went home to rest again. Was Still pretty sore & just blah Mon morning, by late Mon night (midnight) I was back to being in sever pain, so much I was throwing up, doubled over in pain, hyperventilating. My worried hubby took me to the ER around 4am Tues morning, where they hooked me up to an IVF for fluids & morphine. Which pretty much just put me to sleep but didn't really make my symptoms go away. I was released from the 1st hospital later Tues afternoon & went home again to rest. The ER doc had notified my fertility doc of everything however I just went to the closest hospital so it wasn't one my doc practiced at... a mistake we Didn't make again! I took the Vicadin prescribed by the ER doc Tues evening & all day Wed in hopes of relieving the symptoms. Still NO Go!! The pain killers just made me sick to my stomach so I would then throw up again & was unable to keep fluids or food down for the next 2 days. By Thurs evening I was back to Horrible & worried hubby rushed me to ER again after I passed out... This time we went to the closest hospital within my fertility docs network (thank goodness). I vaguely remember stumbling into that ER registration before passing out into a wheelchair. The Ovarian Hyperstim was just getting worse. By the time I made it to the ER my blood pressure had tanked, I was hyperventilating from throwing up, my body had went into some sort of shock & was Completely numb, & I was pretty much incoherent from that point on. I was again hooked up to fluids by IVF (that they could barely get in my veins, I was so dehydrated Again) and given the morphine. More ultrasounds & more nurses & doctors telling that my ovaries were Gigantic (thanks). I'm a fairly small build woman so the increase in my ovary size was extremely painful. During this ultrasound the tech found large pockets of fluid just randomly floating around in my abdominal cavity, & I, as well as everyone else could notice the expansion of belly. I was swelling Everywhere but my normal size 3 waist line & stomach were looking like I was around 5/6 months prego already! After being knocked out from the morphine for a few hours, I was awoken to a bunch of nurses & a doc telling my husband I was being taken by ambulance to a different hospital (the hospital my fertility clinic/doc was located at an hour away). I once again became pretty incoherent for the remaining hours, my hubby said I was speaking to him & almost making sense, but I of course don't remember any of it. It was now late Fri morning (6 days post transfer) & I was continually getting worse. The follicles left in my ovaries after retrieval were only getting larger & making me sicker. Post retrieval I had about 25ish follicles in each over, we were able to pull 18 mature & of those 16 were fertilized. Of those we had 8 Fertilized embryos that were strong, we put two in for the transfer & froze the remaining. I remained in the hospital Fri Sat & Sun, Each day I was going to the radiologist every day & having a catheter stuck in my belly to drain the abdominal fluid that was just floating around & making me miserable. I had gained 23 Pounds in 28 hours!! My stomach was stretched to its max. The first drain they got about a 2 liter bottle & a half, the 2nd drain they got 2- 2liter bottles & a half Over 6 lbs of fluid out, & the 3rd only about another 2liter bottle. I just kept filling back up. All the fluid & size of my ovaries were pushing all of my other organs up & into my diaphram & making me nauseas. By Sun late night (actually 3am mon) I was given a water medicine called Lasix, that was suppose to pull all the additional fluid in my body to my bladder so I could pass it. About 30 mins after the Lasix medication, I could no longer urinate, I felt like my bladder was about to burst but I just couldn't go... so they informed me (@ 3am while I was half out of it, & just woke up to shots in the legs, blood being drawn & 5 people in the room) that they were going to have to catheter me. I'm not sure why exactly I was so paranoid about this but I soon learned I had good reason... Unknowingly I was allergic to Biodine, which when being cathetered they rub you from top of vagina to back of rear, AND to top it off I have usually a mild reaction to latex but not that morning, I had a Strong allergic reaction the to latex catheter! They were able to get one catheter in for about 30 secs before I was screaming in pain so badly that my husband Made them remove it. They then insisted to try a smaller catheter, b/c maybe that one was just too large for my small body Ha, that catheter made it about half way in before it felt like my water was breaking (it was just my own peeing spraying all over the place, again thanks) before I was once again thrashing & screaming from pain. They removed that one & I REFUSED to let them do anything else. I was exhausted & immediately swelled up down there horribly! I've heard woman say their vaginas (Vulva) swell around or after child birth but had no idea what that really meant. . . The Vulva (outter lips of the vagina) swelled with water immensely & were extremely painful for the next 10 days. When the swelling finally started to go down, it was only on one side so I was lopsided for 3 days. oh it was disgusting! I almost felt embarrassed to show anyone but I had to show my husband & nurses b/c I had never seen anything like it before. After finally being left alone around 6 am Mon morning I got some rest & was able to start using the restroom on my own again. Still in pain & swollen I just wanted to get out of the hospital at this point & somehow convinced them to release me Mon evening. I went home with my prescriptions: Pain Reliever, Stool softner (which you don't think you'll need but believe me, take it, you will be soooo thankful), benadryl, & sent on my merry little way. I really thought I was feeling better by Tues.... Then came Wed. morning... doubled over in pain, throwing up, unable to walk, or move again! Went to our fertility doc office to get an ultrasound & blood work & was told they were Readmitting me to the hospital. I just wasn't improving & was back to being dehydrated. I was again hooked up to IVs & fluids, & a morphine drip, & was administered benadryl every few hours, & a anti- nausea medicine every 4 hours... I was still feeling horrible but then came the news... Even though we were only on day 11/12 of our post transfer, I was having blood drawn every 4 hours so our doc was testing my HCG levels... and BAM the levels were increasing!!!! :) :) :) Finally a good sign! We were & still are cautiously optimistic b/c it is so early on & we know how things can change in the blink of an eye. But I finally felt like all that I was going through was worth it & no longer mattered! I remained in the hospital from Wed- Fri evening & finally felt good enough to be send home again... A week later I'm still walking around like a crippled 90yr old woman & in pain but I'm home & haven't had to be admitted for over a week now! I check in with my fertility doc every 2 days on progress... I'm having alot of cramping every night, All night, & my sides hurt from the swollen ovaries, & my back is still killing me from all the extra weight on my sciatic... which also made my thighs go completely numb for the past 10 days... slowly got feeling back in the right leg, but def not the left, numb as could be, but I strangely feel sharp stabbing pains in it when I'm trying to sleep. Hoping & praying everyday that things will continue to get better & that we'll soon get to celebrate the way we want! Just patiently waiting for an ultrasound to see a heartbeat... heartbeatS!! :) Still hoping for twins! 

Reading all the previous posts made me feel good but also worried! today i finished my first IVF cycle, the transfer was this morning and i decided to brows online about what are the symptoms that help me know if it worked or didnt work and i came across this website!

I had IVF for the first time in 09 and after two embryos implanted on day 6 I have a beautiful baby boy.  My second time lead to failure and my third time a very painful, violent miscarriage.  I'm now sitting on three, four day old embryos and yes, the wait is unbearable. I'm having mild cramping from time to time around the place of my ovaries.  I can't remember if I had that my first time but I'm staying in bed and remaining well hydrated.  Remember your uterus is a muscle and when you are not hydrated, it will contract and this is not a good thing at any point during pregnancy.  Good Luck to all of you ladies. It's hard to believe there are so many of us out there and sadly, I'm going to contribute it to the air, pollutants, pesticides etc.  I'm trying to live a clean life and making sure my son lives a healthy happy life.

This is day 7 of my 2nd ivf. No sign at all. The first time, I had NO sign as well. So, I think i will fail this time, too. Good luck to everyone. 

Hi there i am on my first round of ivf i am 7 days post 2 embryos implant and in 4 days time i will be doing my pregnancy test. I am having stomach pains that are like period pains since the the embryos were implanted. I had whats called a show of spotting yesterday and have been told to increaes my pressaries to three times a day. My boobs are sore and tender but they have been like that before my embryos were implanted. Are these stomach cramps normal ive nobody else to ask as the clinic hasnt said yes or no.

This is our first round of IVF, hoping to add a sibling to our healthy 6 year old daughter. This is day 9 after the transfer of one good quality blastocyst by choice. My wife has noticed nothing out of the ordinary. Just don't know... Anyways, she is as cool as a cucumber. She is scheduled to go back to the doctor's office tomorrow and get a pregnancy test - the only way to tell for sure.

I will report the result tomorrow...

As promosed, I am reporting back:

The hCG level is in the 140s mIU/ml from the blood test. So it looks like my wife is pregnant. To be sure, two more blood tests have been ordered in two and five days respectively to track the hCG levels.

Best of luck to you all! Hang in there and do the best you can, this is definition of being successful in life, whether your IVF process will result in a live birth or not.