IVF Medications is a plain-language guide for anyone starting an IVF medication regimen and wondering what each drug is doing and how to cope with what it feels like. Writing under the pen name Colleen Hartridge, the author maps the phases of a medication cycle, explains the general roles of suppression, stimulation, trigger, and luteal support medications, and walks through injection principles and site care without ever naming a specific drug, dose, or protocol as suitable. The book takes the 2am moment seriously: the headache, the mood swing, the uncertainty about whether any of this is normal. It offers practical strategies for sleep, headaches, mood shifts, digestive discomfort, and the waiting phase, while drawing a clear line between routine questions for the clinic and urgent red flags that require immediate or emergency care. It never promises a success rate, a chance of a baby, or a timeline to pregnancy, and it never assumes a partner, a marriage, a heterosexual couple, or that the reader will keep trying. Practice, funding, and eligibility differ by country and clinic and change over time. This is educational support to use alongside, not instead of, the reader's own care team.
