I’ve got my first ER tomorrow and I’m nervous

ER

I kinda want any guidance on what to expect, is it painful, how sore will I be. I’m starting to feel quite scared.

I’m also scared that the numbers will feel hard. I’m at the beginning of my journey and had initially gone down the freeze all cycle as I’d had some fertility tests which said my AMH was 6.9pmol (0.97) at 30 which was described as a little low end of normal. I think I thought I was taking precautions for future me but increasingly I’m realising this is actually low, not normal.

I think I thought I had visions of doing this once maybe twice, but from statistics it feels like I’m gonna be doing 3 cycles but I don’t know whether I’m going down a doom cycle / expecting the worst.

For context, I had 11 follicles at baseline and on Mondays scan I had

4 at 18-22mm 3 at 14-15mm 3 at 8-11mm 2 at under 8mm

It feels like, from what I’ve read if I’m lucky I’ll end up with 1-3 blastocysts which I know would be amazing, but I think I just didn’t really understand what I was getting myself into and if I come out with 1 then the financial burden of another few cycles feels devastating.

Sorry I’m spiralling here & not really sure what I’m looking for.

Posted Oct 28, 2025, 4:47 PM UTC

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