Egg freezing cycle in progress — journal updated as it happens
The gap between what you're told
and what you actually need to know.
What Nobody Told Me documents the information, hard-won lessons, and honest realities that most people only learn by going through something themselves. Right now, that's egg freezing — written in real time by someone going through it. So the next person doesn't have to figure it all out alone.
Where I'm at
- First consultation
- Orientation
- Baseline testing
- Medication delivery
- Injection days 1–3
- Monitoring appointments
- Trigger shot
- Egg retrieval
- Recovery
Journal — cycle in progress
The cycle, written as it happens.
The guide covers what I learned before starting. The journal is what's actually happening — injections, monitoring appointments, the egg count call. Written the day it happens.
10 entries so far, added as they happen. Injections started June 14. Retrieval is still ahead.
Jun 16
Injection day 3 — writing tonight
Cycle continues. Entry being written as things happen.
Jun 15
Injection day 2 — the mental load
Not the needle — the medication confusion, a 45-minute pharmacist call, and a headache that stole the day.
Jun 14
Injection day 1 — the voicemail
A voicemail said everything looked good. Just like that, it stopped being something I was planning for.
Jun 14
Morning monitoring #1
$10,750. A blood draw. A one-minute ultrasound. Then waiting for the call.
All 10 entries — from January through today →
Why this exists.
Most resources about major life decisions are written by institutions with something to sell, or they're so clinical they tell you nothing about what the experience actually feels like. The things that would have changed how I approached this — the real costs, the emotional weight, the questions worth asking — I only found out once I was already in it.
There are no ads, affiliate links, sponsored content, or clinic partnerships. This project exists simply to document one person's experience in real time and make the process feel a little less overwhelming for the next person.
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