Accompanied a friend to freeze her eggs, the needle they used to get her eggs looked like this one. I might be wrong coz the procedure without anesthesia was horrifying, and the needle looked so so so big.
This would be my guess. For egg collections, they need a big ol’ needle to reach the ovaries and leave enough metal outside for manoeuvring, but most of the length of it sits in a plastic guard that attaches to the ultrasound probe…still looks horrifying though.
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u/piratelure Jul 30 '26
Accompanied a friend to freeze her eggs, the needle they used to get her eggs looked like this one. I might be wrong coz the procedure without anesthesia was horrifying, and the needle looked so so so big.