GE Chinese Hamsters fucked me up
Did you know that Gonal-f and Ovidrel are made from stuff derived from genetic manipulated Chinese hamster ovary cells? Gosh I wish I hadn't find out before I had to take the trigger shot. But ok, I've done all the prework, so what can I do? Say that I don't agree with GE or the use of animals? I bravely took the shot at a dinner party, the syringe was blunt as, I really had to bang it in! But as this was my 41st injection I didn't mind too much.Anyway, 10 minutes later I had a terrible allergic reaction. Not to the Chinese hamster, but to the asparagus I ate. Itchy everywhere, especially my esophagus and eyes. And that was on top of the discomfort I was going through anyway. My ovaries are just sitting in the way, especially when I'm sitting on chairs.
In the car back R and I got a major fight. The stress was coming out of my ears by then. All in all I felt terribly upset and shakey. In bed I had strange visions of a claustrophobic underwater world with fishy monsters and I felt the need to be held and comforted. All of a sudden I just felt like during my first ectopic. Just plain scared. And very much let down.
We made up.
I woke up feeling like a porn star. Good old Chinese hamsters! Good to stir up those little spermies a day before we let them out to do their business. I loooove not having to shoot the Buserelin!
Tomorrow is the big day! Scary!
posted by heleen + rod @ 9:08 PM
3 Comments:
Good luck with it! Fingers and toes crossed.
Heleen you don't have to worry so much about your conscience. The cells were donated years and years and years ago and are one of the primary culture media for most research - there are different standard lines for standard procedures and they're kept in the laboratory, not harvested from genetically modified hamsters. The cells are manipulated in culture to insert the genes into the cells, and the cells are kept in culture afterwards to produce the drug - they secrete the drug into the culture media and it's isolated from there. At least I hope that bothers you less than the idea that some hamsters died for your drugs.
Good luck in any case!
Wow thanks Thalia, you're en expert!
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