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The source: Marie Claire
The account: "The donation center suggested I wait at least another month to let my body get back into the swing of my normal cycle. But I had student loans piling up into the $100,000's ... so I shrugged it off and signed up."
The details: "I had noticed a strange, tight, tugging feeling in my abdomen not long after the donation....The weird cramp blossomed into a fiery stab that spread through my abdomen, and I collapsed from the pain....I'd had a cyst ... and I collapsed because it burst."
"Every egg donation has a 10 percent risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, where the ovaries swell from over production of eggs. I didn't suffer the most adverse consequence of the syndrome -- death -- but my doctor did tell me he'd never seen so many eggs in one extraction."
The bottom line: Maybe don't ignore medical experts' suggestions when engaging in risky medical procedures.
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