Egg Donation

Twintastic, please mail me at rikki@globaleggdonors.com - I will send you all the info you need.

I have donated 6 times myself and LOVE doing it!

Elamsmom, sorry you were uncomfortable. We actually dont allow our donors to be awake during the procedure. The reason you have to see the FS so often is to make sure you are doing ok on the meds, rather safe than sorry - even though the chances of anything bad happening is like a tiny %.

Hi Twintastic - please chat to Emsmom and Julz - both are involved in that egg donation and similiar - and will be able to give you a lot of information.

Hi Twintastic. I donated eggs last year. ok, because of my ignorance, it turned out to be a lot more involved that I'd initially though.

Ok, this is what I remember:
Day 3 after your period, you go to see Fertility specialist/gynae, and he will give you the kit with the Gonal F injections inside and show you how to use them

You then start injecting yourself at a certain time of day for a number of days until your next appointment. (gynae will tell you)

You then go in & he will do a scan to check how big your follicles have grown and decide whether you need to keep on taking the shots (the shots stimulate your ovaries/follicles to grow).

Then when he feels your follicles are the correct size and you have the appropriate number of them, he will prescribe the trigger shot. (I had to take mine at 3am because it has to be EXACTLY timed to when he will do the extraction operation.) I don't remember how many days after trigger shot is the extraction. I think a day or 2 though.

The extraction operation is...ok. I could actually feel what he was doing but it wasn't painful. I'd call it (& I hate it when doctor's use this word), uncomfortable.

Why I say it was more detailed than I thought, I didn't know I'd have to see the FS SO many times! Or that I'd have to take SO many injections! (The trigger shot is sore but the other GonalF one's are ok once you get used to them.)

After the op, you will need to relax at least for that day cos you will feel tender inside.

Hope that helps.

Hi Twintastic, pitty Im only seeing this now...but I donated in 2009, can I please tell you all about it tomorrow!!!

I'm considering egg donation. Can someone who have done it please share their experiences. Want to know what I'm in for. I've already registered with an agency.