Patia Eaton
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first heard Jul 2026
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In the early 1990s and today, a typical IVF cycle begins with follicle stimulation, helping a woman's body to produce a higher volume of eggs for the egg retrieval.
And this is timed up with her natural cycle.
But Dr. Ash, he was doing things a little differently.
And so they would find multiple patients at once before they would do these procedures, like sort of batch treat people?
And what is the first step of your treatment?
Looking back, the symptoms Diane described are an indicator that she was experiencing something called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, which happens when a person responds too strongly to fertility drugs.
A healthy 29-year-old woman the age Diane was at the time typically has between 10 and 15 follicles per cycle.
Each one of those follicles contains an immature egg.
In a natural cycle, one follicle releases one egg.
But in an egg retrieval, the doctor attempts to remove each egg from each follicle, even in a mature egg, because each egg they can retrieve ups the chances that they'll be able to produce a viable embryo.
And do you do the retrieval on the same trip?
how long that trip was?
And how did the retrieval end up going?
And you had seen upwards of 60 on your ultrasounds.
During her three-week stay in California, Diane had gone through follicle stimulation and egg retrieval and a multiple embryo transfer, where multiple embryos created in the fertility clinic with her eggs and her husband's sperm were transferred into her uterus.
It was a grueling and uncomfortable process, and it was extraordinarily expensive.
I read every article I could find about UCI and Dr. Ricardo Ashe, and for reasons we'll get into, Diane Porter is named in those articles.
They say she paid $40,000.
To put that into context, $40,000 in 1991 would be equivalent to $98,000 today.
And so after your retrieval, you go home, you go back to Nebraska?
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