Egg-Donation-Basics-2.pptx

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HUMAN CHORIONIC
GONADOTROPIN.
Welcome

When you leave today, you should…
 Be familiar with the egg donation process
 Know that an egg donation cycle requires
multiple office visits, some of which are time-
sensitive and scheduled with short notice.
Objectives

When you leave today, you should…
 Be comfortable administering subcutaneous
injections.
 Know your next step if you decide to continue
screening to become an anonymous egg donor
Objectives

When you leave today, you will not be expected
to know…
• Exact dosages of medications
• Exact timing of medications
• Your specific stimulation plan
What You Will Not Learn

Involves the use of injectable
fertility medications to stimulate
the ovaries in order to produce
multiple eggs, which will be
surgically removed and made
available for recipient couples to
use for an IVF (in vitro fertilization)
cycle.
Egg Donation

A process where fertilization takes
place outside the body, in a petri dish
or a test tube
In Vitro Fertilization

• Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS)- about
2-3% risk with use of injectable fertility medication to
cause eggs to develop
• Risk of puncture of bladder, bowel , blood vessel or
other structure in the area of the ovaries during the
egg retrieval procedure
• Risk of pelvic infection with the egg retrieval
procedure
Risks of Egg Donation/ Egg Retrieval

• Getting Started
• Suppressing the Ovaries
• Ovarian Stimulation
• Egg Retrieval
The Egg Donation Cycle

Be As Healthy As You Can Be:
• Take a Multivitamin daily
• Check with the IVF Nurse re:
Medications Safe to Take while
Stimulating in the Egg
Donation Cycle
• No Alcohol or Smoking
• Decrease Caffeine to 50mg
(8 oz.) per Day
Getting started

Call your IVF Nurse with the first day
of FULL FLOW bleeding. Call on
Monday if your period starts over the
weekend.
Getting started
Your Egg Donation Cycle Begins with
Your Menses:

Getting started
Do not have sex throughout your egg donation cycle. You are
very fertile at this time and could get pregnant unexpectedly.

Your IVF Nurse will order your
medications from a specialty
mail-order pharmacy.
• Your cycle medications will
be reviewed and the
complete supply given to you
at the first monitoring visit in
the donation cycle (called the
suppression check)
Getting started

Begin Birth Control Pills (CD3)
• Begin birth control pills on the third day of your menstrual
cycle if these have been prescribed for you.
 Take pills at night and with food if they cause nausea.
 You may have breakthrough bleeding while on birth
control pills. This is not cause for concern.

Birth Control Pills
• Usually taken daily for 2 to 4 weeks.
• Birth control pills are used to prevent cysts
from forming on the ovaries during this
suppression stage.

Your IVF nurse will send you a personalized plan.
• Your menses began on__________
• You should begin taking birth control pills on cycle day 3________
• You will take your last active birth control pill on__________
• Schedule a suppression check for ____________
• Begin FSH (Follistim or Gonal-F and/or Menopur) on______ (~2- 3
days after the suppression check , as directed)
• Schedule an Estradiol level and ultrasound appointment on FSH day
4 or 5 and thereafter as advised.
• Anticipate starting Ganirelix in addition to FSH around day 6 of
stimulation, but we will instruct you when to start this medication.
You will need to continue this medication for as long as you are
taking FSH.
• Your egg retrieval will be the week of ________________
Getting started

Subcutaneous Injection Sites
• All of the injectable cycle medications: FSH (Follistim, Gonal F)
hMG (Menopur), Ganirelix, and Leuprolide (Lupron) trigger
are given as subcutaneous injections.

Stop Birth Control Pills ≈ CD23
• Around Cycle Day 23, you will stop your birth control
pills (as instructed on your personal plan).
• Two to four days after stopping the pill, you will
come in for the first visit in the donation cycle (as
instructed on your personal plan) . It is called the
“Suppression Check”.
• You may or may not be on a menses and this is ok.

• The Suppression Check visit includes
•estradiol level (blood test)
•pelvic ultrasound
•history and physical exam
•Infectious disease blood panel (required by
the FDA for all egg donors in cycle)
• This appointment can take up to an hour.
Suppression Check Visit

• You will receive an updated written plan from
your IVF nurse.
• Your IVF nurse will review and give you the
complete cycle medication supply at this
suppression check appt.
• You will be instructed in the dose ,timing, and
administration of each medication, as well as
future office visits.

Voicemail Box
• You will be given a voicemail box
upon checkout.
• Check your voicemail this afternoon
(3:30pm) and any day you come in for
monitoring visits in the egg donation
cycle.

• If your ovaries are suppressed at your suppression
check visit, you will be instructed to begin
FSH/hMG fertility medication injections.
• You will be taking FSH/hMG injections either once
or twice a day, depending on the plan your doctor
has selected for you
• All forms of FSH/hMG are administered
subcutaneously (under skin with a short needle)
Starting the Stimulation with the
Fertility Medications

Stimulating with Fertility Medication :
Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH)
You may be using one or more of these fertility
medications based upon your plan:

Once FSH (Follistim, Gonal F) and /or hMG
(Menopur) begins,
• Abstain from alcohol.
• Stop all exercise except light walking.
• No lifting over 10 pounds.
Stimulating with the fertility medication:
Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH)

Normal and Stimulated Ovary

• You will come to our office for your first monitoring visit
while on fertility medication injections. This visit will
include an estradiol level (blood test) and an ultrasound
• Check your voicemail box this afternoon for test results
and plan
• Your FSH/hMG doses may be increased or decreased at
this time *make sure you have enough FSH/hMG*
• There is a possibility that your cycle will be canceled if
your estradiol level is too high or too low
Stimulating the Ovaries:
(FSH Day 4)

• You will come in for a second monitoring visit, consisting of an
estradiol level and ultrasound
• Check your voice mail box for your results and plan *make sure
you have enough medicine*
Stimulating the Ovaries
(FSH Day 7)

• Expect to start taking Ganirelix around day 6 of FSH (this will
be determined by your doctor).
• The purpose of this medicine is to prevent ovulation.
• Once instructed to start the Ganirelix, give one prefill syringe
sub Q at ~ 10PM every evening that you take FSH/hMG.
• You will do your last Ganirelix injection the evening before you
take the Lupron Trigger.
OVARIAN STIMULATION: Ganirelix

OVARIAN STIMULATION:
Typical Stimulation on FSH
Eggs Retrieved
↓
Eggs Fertilized
↓
Good Embryos

• 3rd monitoring visit (estradiol level and ultrasound)
• Listen to your voicemail box for your results and
plan *make sure you have enough medicine*
• Most people will take their trigger shot (Lupron)
around day 10. Your voicemail will tell you exactly
what time to take your trigger and your egg
retrieval will be scheduled 35 hours later.
(FSH Day 10)

• Ovidrel is human chorionic gonadotropin
• Administered subcutaneously
• Will be instructed to administer 1½ or 2 Ovidrel injections at
the same time.
• Accelerates maturation of the follicles and triggers ovulation.
Ovidrel (HCG Trigger Shot)
ONE-TIME
INJECTION

• To take a Lupron trigger,
draw 0.8 mL using a 1 mL
syringe and inject sub Q at
the time instructed.
• The following day your
blood will be drawn for a
LH level to confirm that
lupron induced ovulation.
• If ovulation is not
detected, you will take an
Ovidrel injection.
Or Lupron Trigger

• No medicines today (unless need additional
trigger of Ovidrel)
• Return to office for an estradiol level and LH level.
(no ultrasound)
• You will meet with an IVF nurse to review your
instructions for your Egg Retrieval
• NO EATING OR DRINKING AFTER MIDNIGHT
TONIGHT (the night before your egg retrieval)
Day after Lupron Trigger

EGG RETRIEVAL

• Egg Retrieval is performed in our surgery
center here at Nashville Fertility Center.
• One of our Nashville Fertility physicians will
perform your egg retrieval procedure.
• You will have MAC anesthesia. (Twilight
anesthesia given through an IV)
• Your eggs will be frozen the day of retrieval
using a fast-freezing method called
vitrification or if a matched couple is in cycle
with you, they will receive fresh eggs.
Egg Retrieval

Egg Retrieval

Vitrification
(Fast Egg Freezing)

Vitrification: Published Data
• Survival: 85-90%
• Fertilization: 85-90%
• Blastocyst Development: 50-70%
• Pregnancy Rate: 40-89%
Kuwayama et al, 2005; Chang et al, 2008; Nagy et al, 2009

Anonymous donor eggs that have been
frozen/thawed or fresh eggs, can be inseminated
using ICSI - Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection for a
recipient match (utilizing the husband’s sperm)
Fresh or Cryopreserved Donor Egg use

Embryo Development
Day 3 Embryo Day 5 Embryo
‘Blastocyst’

• The donor egg program is set up to be anonymous, however, in today’s
world of the internet, there is a possibility that children born from the use
of donor eggs will be able to learn the identity of their egg donor, if
motivated to do so.
• Once your eggs are retrieved, you have no further control over these
eggs, and they become the property of Nashville Fertility and
subsequently, the recipient couple(s) who receives your eggs.
• Recipients may decide to donate the donor egg/ embryos for: procreation
to another individual or couple, for research, or they may discard them.
You will not be notified of how they are used.
• You may at any time elect to register with the National Donor Sibling
Registry and Nashville Fertility will provide you with your egg donor # .
Important Facts When You Donate Eggs

• Always make sure you have enough medication
especially before the weekend.
• Keep all appointments scheduled for you throughout
the donation cycle, as instructed by your IVF nurse
• Refer to the Nashville Fertility Center website for
injection teaching videos:
Tips for Success
www.nashvillefertility.com

If you would like to continue the egg donor screening process:
• We will draw a blood AMH level (anti muellarian hormone), to check your
ovarian reserve or egg potential.
• The nurse will call you with the AMH results and if the AMH level is over
2.0, you may continue with the next screening step below.
• Schedule appointment to meet with one of the NFC physicians/ NPs,
transvaginal ultrasound to check position of ovaries and # of follicles (egg
potential), and draw Counsyl genetic mutation panel.
• The nurse will call you with the Counsyl results and if acceptable, you will
be instructed to call : Michele Martens, DNP,RN (615) 480-1811 to schedule
an egg donor psychological evaluation appointment. The nurse will call you
with results of the psychological evaluation.
• You will then be added to the NFC donor active list and your profile will be
made available for couples interested in using donor eggs to achieve a
pregnancy.
Egg Donor Screening Steps

• Kelli Millett , APN, MSN
Egg Donation Program Coordinator
Tel: (615) 321-4740
Email: kmillett@nashvillefertility.com
• Nashville Fertility Center Website
www.NashvilleFertility.com
• Nashville Fertility Center
345 23rd Avenue North, Suite 401
Nashville, TN 37203
• Michele A. Martens, DNP, RN
3rd Party Reproductive Counseling
Tel: (615) 480-1811
Email: fertilitycounselingnashville@gmail.com
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