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Age plays a major factor in women’s fertility. Ladies in their 20s to early 30s are in their peak reproductive years. However, not many women today feel ready to have a baby at this age. Whether they haven’t found their right partner or they want to focus on their career. Also, it is possible that they simply are not ready yet, or they just don’t want to start a family. Nowadays, Egg freezing has become an attractive option for many women. It offers an alternative reproductive insurance policy against age-related fertility decline. Here are some things that you might want to know about the egg freezing process including the success rates, risks and procedure costs.
Egg freezing process (oocyte cryopreservation) involves stimulating the ovaries with medication to produce multiple eggs in women ovaries. After retrieving those mature eggs, it will go for the freezing process until the time you decide to use them.
The older women get, the less likely they are to become pregnant. A woman in her 20s or 30s who is not using birth control pills has a 25% chance of conceiving. By the time she is 40, those chances drop to 10% and as years go on, the chances get even slimmer.
Egg freezing is the best option for younger women, particularly those younger than 35 years. At this age, they have the highest quality of eggs. According to many experts, women over the age of 38 aren’t ideal candidates for egg freezing, since they have fewer healthy eggs that can be retrieved and fertilized compared to younger women.
Egg freezing is a way to preserve your fertility before it starts to decline. It can be a life- saving option for women who are not ready to get pregnant just yet.
Many women can undergo this procedure, including those who have endometriosis or ovarian cysts. It is also an option for women who have a family history of premature ovarian failure and early menopause. Early menopause leaves these women with a shorter than usual baby-making window. Cancer treatments have a high chance of making women infertile, so women about to undergo cancer treatments may choose to preserve their fertility by freezing their eggs. Finally, women undergoing IVF also have the option to choose egg freezing along with embryo freezing as a part of IVF treatment.
The egg retrieval process used during the egg freezing procedure is the same as with a woman undergoing IVF. Here’s what you can expect from the process.
The price for the egg freezing process varies from one fertility treatment center to another and depending on how many cycles may require for ovulation. The cost to harvest your eggs may range anywhere from $7000 to $15000. This cost includes the egg retrieval procedure, hormonal medications that fertility experts use to stimulate ovaries to produce multiple eggs, and freezing the eggs with vitrification method.
Storing the retrieved eggs after can add up your cost over $1000 per year. Also, you’ll want to consider the cost of fertilizing and implanting the embryo once you decide to get pregnant. You might require multiple cycles of embryo transfer to conceive successfully, and this might cost you an additional several thousand dollars.
Many clinics offer different payment plans and loans to help out potential intended parents with the upfront costs of egg freezing. Some of the leading tech giants like Apple, Google, and Facebook have insurance plans that cover some of the costs associated with egg freezing.
Only a few health insurance plans cover the cost of egg freezing for women at high risk of early menopause and premature ovarian failure, or for those who want to freeze their eggs for cancer treatments.
In Egg freezing Process risks are incredibly rare, but they can still occur in patients, these risks are:
During the procedure, there is a possibility that a bowel, blood vessel, or bladder might be damaged or infected when the egg is retrieved. This can result in bleeding, which, in turn, can affect the procedure.
It’s also possible to develop rare conditions after using fertility drugs. The primary use of these hormonal medications is to stimulate the ovaries. However, they may result in Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS). This syndrome is extremely rare but could be fatal for patients. The symptom of OHSS includes ovarian and abdominal swelling, mild pain, nausea, vomiting, and shortness of breath.
Another problem is the emotional risks, and with a procedure such as this one, nothing guarantees success. This can take a toll on a patient’s emotional well-being.
Egg freezing is not a 100% successful procedure, but it does significantly increase the chances of fertilization. The success rate often depends on the age of the individual that undergoes the procedure. Every egg retrieved from a woman younger than 30 years has around a 12% chance of resulting in a successful pregnancy. However, the older you are, the lower the chances of successful fertilization.
Egg Freezing could be the answer many women need who are not ready to start a family just yet. If you too are thinking about egg freezing, then call us at 949-726-0600 or book an appointment to know more about egg freezing process, cost, risks and success rate. Also, you can visit us at www.coastalfertility.com.
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Coastal Fertility Medical Center offers one of the most affordable fertility treatments and is completely transparent regarding the costs of procedures and any other expenses that you may have to pay before commencing your treatment. This differentiates us from some fertility clinics that reduce prices before the signing of the contract but charge you extra later on. We make sure our patients are well aware of any possible extra pricing that may occur over the course of their treatment.
Following the Preimplantation Genetic Screening process, which helps ensure there are normal chromosome numbers and detects possible genetic disorders, the most healthy embryo(s) are selected to be implanted into your or your chosen surrogate’s womb. 2 weeks after the transfer of the embryo, your physician will conduct a final blood test to determine the level of hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) in your body. Increased hCG levels usually indicate a positive pregnancy test.
For fertilization to take place, the collected egg and sperm are combined in a petri dish and cultured in an embryo incubator. This dish is closely watched to check whether any of the eggs have been fertilized. Once the egg is fertilized, it is referred to as an embryo or a blastocyst on the 5th day of development. Our in-house embryologist carefully nurtures every embryo to the right time, even if it means working outside the standard business operating hours. For instance: If an oocyte is not mature, our laboratory will wait for it to mature and then ICSI it at the right time.
The egg retrieval is a slightly invasive medical procedure that takes about 20 to 30 minutes. You will be given an anesthetic to make you sleep for the duration of the procedure. Using ultrasound technology, your doctor will harvest your eggs transvaginally with a small, hollow needle connected to an ultrasound probe. Once your eggs are collected, your partner’s semen or donor sperm you have pre-selected is used for fertilization. The sperm are washed and prepared, and the top-quality sperm extracted is used to fertilize the eggs.
Your doctor will create a customized medication schedule that contains information about the fertility medications and hormone injections you have to take. Medication and injections are taken to encourage your ovaries to mature a large number of eggs for fertilization. Since women don’t respond to fertility drugs and hormones the same way, personalized protocols are crucial to the IVF cycle success. At Coastal Fertility, we will monitor you closely, letting you understand the changes occurring in your body and keeping track of how your egg follicles are growing.
On-site consultations typicallyinclude a standard fertility evaluation, consisting of a physical examination, complementary follicular ultrasound, and testing to enable your doctor to know your present fertility status and draw up a treatment plan.
This consultation includes a detailed medical evaluation with a doctor. You and your physician will review your health records and have enough time to talk about your goals and get answers to your questions. We recommend that you jot down all your questions before the visit to allow you to make the best use of the time spent with your doctor.
Your Reproductive Endocrinologist will take all factors into consideration and create a comprehensive plan of care, otherwise known as the treatment plan. This plan will include treatment recommendations from the physician and enable your financial coordinator to make a precise quotation once you meet.
Our globally respected team of specialists are helping improve IVF technologies to enter into a generation of better outcomes for infertility. Although you’ll have a doctor guiding you, you are also going to benefit from the experience and insights of other doctors during case review collaboration meetings, which take place every week. So, you won’t just rely on the expertise of a specialist but benefit from the knowledge of many reputed fertility experts.
The infertility industry is currently segmented, with each service or treatment being handled by a different provider. Our all-inclusive model simplifies an otherwise complex and difficult process. We are here to revolutionize the infertility industry by offering a one-stop-service model to assist our patients through infertility challenges while reducing physical, emotional, and financial risks.
Our fertility clinic focuses on helping you build your family regardless of your sexual orientation or the gender you choose to identify with. We are even taking further steps to make LGTB people feel more welcome at our fertility clinic. Each of our patient-facing staff goes through LGTB training to let family-building clinicians provide necessary support and make you feel highly welcome.
We know that every situation is different and that everyone requires different treatments. Unlike facilities that take “a one-size-fits-all” approach for all cases, our fertility specialists use more than 40 customized protocols to raise the chances of success. The customized approach even extends to our fertility laboratory. Our on-site lab director and his highly-experienced team nurture every embryo and egg to increase the odds of success of each cycle.
Our team specializes in difficult cases and help patients who may have been considered “hopeless” at other fertility clinics. Thanks to our personalized solutions, expertise, and internal collaboration, weare able to maximize pregnancy success rates that are well above the industry average, even in difficult infertility cases.
Upon your arrival, you will check in with a Patient Care Coordinator. We will obtain your insurance information for benefits verification, a copy of your identification and take a picture for your electronic medical chart
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Coastal Fertility is the leading provider of fertility solutions located in Orange County. Join us to get free updates on fertility news, treatments, infertility solutions and more.