After trying to conceive for a long time, most women take the help of an infertility specialist and go through the options available to achieve pregnancy. Many treatment options are available, like fertility medications, artificial insemination, and surgery.
After trying the other options, a few choose IVF or in-vitro fertilisation. In IVF, sperm and egg are combined to fertilise in a laboratory outside the woman’s body. The treatment is expensive and complicated.
Taking HCG injections during IVF treatment
After going through all the options, when you finally choose a course in IVF, there is a probability that you will experience a range of emotions. But at this time, it’s very important to stay positive and take good care of yourself, rather than focusing on the procedure and related matters.
Your healthcare specialist may recommend HCG or human chorionic gonadotropin injections during the treatment. The symptoms of receiving HCG shots can surprise you, but you need not worry. It is always important to know what is happening in your body.
Feel like you have conceived.
You might suddenly start experiencing cramping, retaining water, or becoming irritable. Also, you can feel depressed while taking the trigger shots. These symptoms are very common and normal in women. You might also feel like you are pregnant, as these symptoms mirror pregnancy. So, it is important that you become aware of pregnancy symptoms, and you don’t take these HCG injection symptoms as pregnancy symptoms.
HCG injections are used to prevent the early release of the egg and its maturation for fertilisation. Studies have shown that the traces of HCG will remain in the blood of pregnant women for seven or more days. Therefore, if you are taking HCG shots, you should know these symptoms.
When did you get pregnant?
While receiving HCG shots, a pregnancy test can provide false positive results. A test conducted by your health care specialist will only determine pregnancy status during an IVF treatment or HCG.
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