This Is How Long It Took Once I Decided to Freeze My Eggs
It Took More Than 7 Months For Me to Freeze My Eggs — Here's What I Learned Along the Way
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When people tell you that the older you get, the more you need your girlfriends, I think they have egg freezing in mind. I can't tell you how thankful I am to have had the support of my dear friends Ann (who's a nurse) and Chelsea Earlewine (who's my podcast cohost) to get me through that first night of injections, because I was terrified.
Ann walked me through the tips and tricks of injecting myself so seamlessly, including making sure I knew to "prime" the needle, which means making sure the tip is filled with fluid so I don't inject myself with air. Then she administered my first injections to show both Chelsea and me exactly how to do it, in case Chelsea needed to help me later on (and she did). Because of them, when I did it myself over the next several nights, I was much less nervous and more confident that this was something I could actually do on my own.
I also have to give credit to the women who followed along throughout the process with me on Instagram Stories, especially my friend Nicole who saw me struggling with injecting myself in the abdomen. She told me when she went through in vitro fertilization (IVF) that she gave herself her injections in the thighs, and it was a total game changer for her. I tried it her way, and it turned out to be a game changer for me, too. I found it to be much less sensitive than sticking myself in the belly, so I continued to use my thigh for the rest of my injections.