Reading through the table of contents from yesterday’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, I was interested to find an article entitled “Fresh versus Frozen Embryos for Infertility in the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.” Having many patients with PCOS, I was of course interested to see whether this large study of over 1500 women diagnosed...

IVF can be a long process but it’s well worth the rewards. Most patients have no side effects, but some experience bloating and slight cramping. The egg retrieval requires anesthesia in order to make the procedure painless and most women have discomfort similar to menstrual cramps for a day or two. For most women, IVF is well tolerated. There are always exceptions to the rule, particularly if a woman over responds and develops ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS). Luckily, there are steps that can be taken to reduce the risk of OHSS - at RMANJ, our OHSS rate is less than