Chew CL,
you are doing ER in KKivf,right?
The procedure is as follows:
1)When your hubby and you reach the centre, you will fill in and sign some forms.
2)You will be led to the changing room to change, to take off all your clothings and put on the 'operating' clothings and cap. You will be asked to clear your bladder. Your hubby will be asked to go to the room to get ready his sperms at the same time. Remember not to have any makeup, jewellery, perfumes, lotions on your body. No contact lens too.
3)when the nurses have set up all the things in the operating theatre, you will be asked to lie on the operating table and given mild sedation. Some hospitals give GA during ER, but KK only gives sedation whereby you might be still conscious during the procedure, but painless during the retreviel. My sinseh told me before that it is actually better for the body just to have mild sedation instead of strong GA.
4)For my own experience, the sedation was very mild and I could hear the doc and nurses talking throughout the whole precedure. I even felt the needle going thru my vagina and suck out every single eggs. However it was painless, but can feel the poking of the very long needle. I had 18 eggs extracted, so 18 times of needle-poking!
I saw the long needle before the procedure when the nurse took out. Sorry if I sounded very scary. But dont worry ok. The staff will make you feel comfortable and well taken care of throughout.
5)The whole procedure will be quite fast. I was told by the nurse to slowly move my body(was quite painful to move my body that time) to another bed so that they can push the bed to the resting lounge and monitor my condtion after ER.
6)A nurse will come to you regularly to monitor your heartbeat, your pressure and also your drip intake. You will be on drip throughout the ER as well as after it. They will have to make sure your body have taken in the whole small bag of water thru drip and make sure you pass urine before you are discharged. You will probably feel cramps on your abdomen during this resting time. Mine was really painful, coz my sedation was very light. I thought I can endure it so I rejected when the nurse asked me if I want to take painkillers. But then I finally surrendered and have to take painkillers when I reached home. There will also be very slight bleeding from your vagina, but will stop very soon within a day.
7)The nurse will make you a cup of milo as you should be feeling hungry and thirsty after overnight fast. Once you have passed urine, you will be asked to change back to your own clothes and wait for your hubby or anyone to pick you up. The nurse will tell you how many eggs are extracted during you ER and brief you on what to observe when you get home after ER and before ET. They will make sure someone come to fetch you in order to discharge you, coz you will probably still feeling weak and cannot stand straight with the abdominal cramps.
If your hubby has been waiting for you in the hospital while you are in the resting lounge, the centre should have called him to get all the necessary medicine(painkillers, antibiotics etc) for you at the pharmacy to save time.
8)So you will need to rest a lot when reach home. You will be asked if you need to be issued 2 weeks HL before ER, and the HL will be given to you after ER.
Hope this helps abit for the preparation of your coming ER!
Good luck and must have confidence in your doc and pray hard for a smooth journey!
