2022/3/8/ · You’re taking the eggs out; shouldn’t the symptoms get better? No, in fact, they get worse! Let’s do a little Bio 101. Eggs are housed in fluid-filled follicles, and follicles live in the ovaries. Many follicles = big ovaries. Seems simple. During the egg retrieval, we drain the follicles of their fluid, and within that fluid comes the eggs.