What is the most common complication women experience from egg donor donation?
If only we had been recording, monitoring, and tracking young women who have donated/sold their eggs over the past three decades, we might have a better understanding of what type of risks are most prevalent, and for which kinds of women. Additionally, we have no way of knowing the cumulative effects of donating one’s eggs. For example, does the woman who chooses to donate her eggs six times (thereby exposing herself to more and more hormones) have a greater risk of developing cancer later in life? These are the kinds of data points that are gathered over large, longitudinal studies. What we do know, however, comes from studies done on the follow-up on infertile women (who are patients and therefore tracked). It is important to note than an infertile woman is an entirely different patient population than the otherwise healthy egg donor. Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) of some magnitude exists (mild, moderate, severe) as a short-term complication with milder forms occurring 10
