What to do if your ovaries are enlarged after transplantation

As people are under increasing pressure in life and pay less and less attention to their own health, they are prone to various diseases, one of the most common of which is infertility. For couples who want to have a baby, the most convenient way is through in vitro fertilization. This requires removing eggs from the woman's ovaries, fertilizing them and then transplanting them into the ovaries. However, some women may experience ovarian enlargement after transplantation, so they need to be more careful.

Some female patients experience enlarged ovaries after egg retrieval, one of the reasons being ovarian hyperstimulation. Doctors, who have accumulated rich clinical experience over the years, have different solutions for different groups of people regarding the problem of ovarian stimulation and enlargement.

Generally speaking, patients whose ovaries become enlarged due to overstimulation cannot undergo IVF transplantation because, in order to ensure the success rate of IVF, many doctors will recommend patients with good egg retrieval to choose frozen embryo transplantation. Generally, this is done for the cryopreservation of early embryos on the third day and blastocysts on the fifth day. The fertilized eggs will be cultured until the fifth day to form blastocysts. Through morphological evaluation and cutting-edge third-generation IVF technology, high-quality and healthy blastocysts are selected and frozen and stored in liquid nitrogen at -196°C. According to in vitro fertilization experts, this technology effectively prevents the quality of eggs from deteriorating due to the decline of somatic and ovarian function. Moreover, after continuous exploration of freezing technology, it is now possible to preserve them for a long time, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, or even longer. The thawed eggs/sperm/embryos still have a strong ability to conceive.

According to IVF experts, freezing embryos is the only mature method in the world to preserve fertility. Therefore, for patients whose ovaries become enlarged after egg retrieval and cannot be transplanted, patients are usually advised to freeze embryos and then transplant them.

It is understood that the use of ovulation-stimulating drugs during the in vitro fertilization cycle will cause the ovaries to grow larger because the follicles will develop and become larger and larger like a pool of water. A normal ovary is the size of a walnut, but after taking medication it can reach the size of a baseball. After egg retrieval, the fluid needs to be refilled and it takes time to recover. The ovaries will return to their normal size when menstruation comes. All this is only temporary, and the size of the ovaries will return to normal in the new cycle.

Therefore, when patients have enlarged ovaries after egg retrieval, they must follow the doctor's advice. If the doctor believes that the enlarged ovaries do not affect the IVF transplant, then the transplant can be performed. If the doctor says that the patient's condition is not suitable for the transplant, then they must go home and adjust their body before the transplant. Don't be tempted by the hassle and rush for quick success and want to perform the IVF blastocyst transplant immediately.