Will ovulation induction and egg retrieval of IVF cause harm to women?

In general, women only ovulate one egg at a time, but IVF needs more eggs to pair with sperm in order to select high-quality embryos for transplantation and increase the success rate of fetal implantation. In order to make women's bodies excrete more eggs, it is necessary to take some hormone drugs at this time to achieve the effect of expelling multiple eggs. The process of female ovulation takes about 10 to 15 days, which is called controlled superovulation in clinic. In the meantime, hormone drugs such as Daphyrin and Dabijia will be used to promote the growth of follicles. When the follicular development meets the requirements of IVF, the egg will be taken out from the female body. The time to promote ovulation generally depends on the physical condition of women, usually around ten days.

Some people think that expelling so many eggs will do harm to women's ovaries. Actually, it won't, because the hormone used to promote ovulation exists in women themselves. Women will excrete more than one follicle a month, but usually only one can develop. The role of hormones is to make those follicles that die because of insufficient hormones in the body achieve the purpose of development. Ovulation promotion once or twice occasionally will not cause ovarian function decline. As long as you have a good rest after ovulation induction, it is no problem not to continue ovulation induction in a short time. Although women may feel a little uncomfortable, the probability of serious complications is lower than 1%, so generally speaking, ovulation induction will not do much harm to women.

Some people may think that although the complication is lower than 1%, it does not mean that it will not happen. Because ovulation can stimulate the ovaries, most women will feel a little uncomfortable, such as bloating and mild nausea. In fact, these are all mild hydrothorax and ascites in ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, and the probability of occurrence is about 10%. This phenomenon is generally due to the growth of multiple follicles, leading to changes in some factors in the body, so that the fluid in the blood vessels leaks into the abdominal cavity or even the chest cavity, but this situation is very slight, only.