Female fertility is a very delicate process. Under normal circumstances, women will have one dominant egg mature and released from their ovaries every month. But if you want to do IVF, you need more than one egg, so doctors often inject ovulation inducing injections into women at this time. So how long does it take for ovulation induction injections to be effective?
Egg retrieval is an important component of in vitro fertilization technology. During a woman's natural ovulation cycle, only one dominant follicle develops, and ovulation induction is necessary to obtain multiple healthy eggs.
The dosage and timing of ovulation induction in IVF need to be determined according to the actual situation of the patient, and vary from person to person. Generally speaking, the time for receiving ovulation induction injections is 10-14 days. Under the action of ovulation induction drugs, the egg grows, but mature eggs cannot be obtained yet. In order to evaluate the development status of the egg inside the follicle, doctors must use ultrasound to monitor the size of the follicle and cooperate with checking the estrogen level in the blood for evaluation. The dosage can be adjusted according to the follicle condition. For most patients, continuous medication is required for about 10 days, but the specific duration also depends on the growth of the follicles. Some may be as short as 8 days, while the elderly can take up to 15-16 days.
When the level of estrogen matches the number of follicles, doctors can inject human chorionic gonadotropin to promote the maturation of eggs in the follicles. Before ovulation (about 35-36 hours after injection of human chorionic gonadotropin), painless egg retrieval techniques are used to remove the eggs.
During the entire ovulation induction process, doctors will identify low response cycles and excessive response cycles based on the patient's specific condition, evaluate egg quality, understand the appropriate timing for obtaining mature eggs, and ultimately decide on the time for egg retrieval in order to obtain more mature eggs. Adequate patient cooperation and treatment are also crucial.
Through the introduction in this article, it can be known that ovulation induction injections generally take about 10 days to be injected. The specific number of days to be injected depends on the patient's situation. If it is less, it takes 8 days, and some people may need up to 15 or 16 days of injection to meet the needs of egg retrieval.
