Once they recognize their unexpected difficulty, the biggest jolt to many couples is how much time infertility treatment takes from their lives. If oral pills supposed to assist and enhance a woman's ovulation don't work, more potent hormone-related drugs must be injected by needle into a woman at the same time every day for nearly two weeks. Plenty of females, queasy at doing the injections themselves, rely on their mates to give the shots in thighs, arms or buttocks. Other complications involve making three or more office visits for blood tests and another group of sessions for ultrasounds to monitor the drugs' effectiveness during a two-week cycle, wreaking havoc with any working woman's schedule. And all the while, the impact of the hormones can trigger depression, irritation, bloatedness, hot flashes and other side effects.
Some women feel minor changes, others get real ornery.
I thought this is what it's like when people are losing their mind.