Peter Attia· MD
So then the patient gets hcg which is another medication which kind of simulates her own LH surge. And the purpose of that medication, it causes the final maturation of the eggs.
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So then the patient gets hcg which is another medication which kind of simulates her own LH surge. And the purpose of that medication, it causes the final maturation of the eggs.
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So, how long does that procedure typically take? Half an hour.
So that medication is very timesensitive. And do you harvest the follicles in the fallopian tube or do you go right into the ovaries? In the ovaries. Yeah. Okay. So the egg retrieval is happens 2 days after the hCG trigger. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, I would have thought. So it it would have taken 2 days for her to 36 hours specifically.