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Egg donation - for donors |
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What about sex and contraception during the treatment?
There is no physical reason why you should not carry on having sex during the treatment. However, it's extremely important that if you risk getting pregnant you use a very reliable method of contraception, particularly once you start the second phase of drugs which stimulate your ovaries to produce lots of eggs. Otherwise you could end up with a lot more than you bargained for!
Barrier methods such as the condom plus spermicide are reliable enough. Some women have been able to carry on using the IUD, provided it is not a hormonal one. (You can't take the pill.) However if you're currently taking the pill or are taking another form of hormonal contraceptive such as depo provera, your clinic may ask you to wait one or two menstrual periods before starting treatment, so your natural menstrual cycle can settle down and they can assess your suitability effectively.
You can still be an egg donor if you've been sterilised by having your tubes tied.
Given that you will be using follicle stimulating hormones for two weeks or so before egg collection you could consider not having penetrative sex or not having sex at all.
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