Feels like my ovaries are huge!

[dorijane]

This doesn't seem like a normal pregnancy symptom or pain to me but yesterday and today, my ovaries feel weird - kind of like they're big and achy. Like they felt during IVF stims. I just feel very aware of that area of my body. Did anyone experience this? It seems odd that my ovaries would hurt. Maybe it's achiness from somewhere else though and I just think it's my ovaries. I think I'm extra worried because my brown spotting returned Sunday night so the combination of the two has me worried. Ultrasound on Monday can't come soon enough!

[ProfessorChaos]

Sorry you're worried about all this. I don't know how recent your IVF was, but OHSS can develop late for some women. Maybe call your RE?

[Deleted]

I was thinking OHSS too, I can't remember how far along you are though. But I'd check with your RE.

[bluefairy5]

Thanks for the page, @ketchup. dorijane, If I recall correctly, our transfer dates were around the same time (mine was the 11th). dharmachick's transfer was also around there, give or take a couple days. dharmachick and I have been following an almost identical pattern of OHSS late onset and recovery, so that is all I'm directly familiar with.

Has your RE been checking your E2 and P4 levels when you go in for betas and/or u/s? Generally with late onset OHSS, those two numbers will be stratospheric. (E.g., mine are about 7x higher than the 1st tri cap is supposed to be.) And you do not have to have had (gah) early onset OHSS to develop late onset (though the former makes the latter more likely).

Late onset OHSS typically shows up within a few days of implantation (basically, when you start getting faint HPT positives) and typically resolves after about 2-3 weeks post-first-beta. But as we aaaaaalllllll know here, "typically" is not a synonym for "universally." I'd give your RE a buzz and ask about risk of very late onset OHSS, what else it might be, etc. Depending on what they hear from you as the medical professionals, they may want to bring you in before Monday.

Regardless, I hope you're feeling more comfortable this morning!

[dorijane]

Thanks everyone for all the comments and advice. I had an FET so I don't think it can be OHSS. Right now I feel fine. It seems to feel that way more as the day goes on. As far as checking E2 and P4 levels, I'm not sure. When they did my betas, they didn't mention that. Only my beta #. And when I went for my first ultrasound last week, they didn't draw blood, which really surprised me.

Maybe its just the stretching and general changes going on and I'm just feeling it more in one area than another, making me think it's the ovary area. Right now, other than exhaustion and nausea (and brown spotting that's back again), I feel pretty good.

[bluefairy5]

dorijane, Yep, you're totally right, if it was FET you're not at risk for OHSS since your ovaries weren't stimulated. That's good! Probably, as you say, just the general changes. A certain amount of bloating is normal, too.

[nomnom]

dorijane I had an FET on 1/8 and I had the same type of feeling. I figured it was just stretching and other random changes. I felt fine at the beginning of the day, but being upright for more than a few hours made everything ache in my lower abdomen. I found that laying down, particularly on my stomach, helped. I also had some spotting around 6 weeks, a bit of red that turned into brown, and my 6.5 week u/s showed a very small subchorionic hematoma (SCH). The doctor was clearly not worried about it since I didn't get another u/s for four weeks. I'm 11w4d now with twins, the achiness has subsided, and I've had no more spotting besides a bit of brownish discharge that could just be from my cervix getting pissed off.