Frozen or fresh

[Rainbowhope]

My husband and I have moved on to donor eggs now and the clinic recommended that we do a frozen round. Only reason is that to do a fresh round I'd need to go on the pill for a length of time. The pill made me very depressed and I hated it. The clinic had some of my husband sperm already frozen. So they're suggestion is to use husband frozen sperm to fertilize the donor eggs and he freeze them until my lining is good enough to transfer.

Initially I thought this was a good plan but I've recently been thinking that I should go for fresh cycle because fresh is better than frozen. The clinic said frozen are just as good but I am very worried that I've made the wrong choice. Can anyone share their experience of donor eggs and if they used fresh or frozen please?

[Caroliono4]

Hi Rainbowhope

From what you've said they would still be using the fresh eggs, just freezing them after fertilisation. This is quite different from using pre-frozen eggs, which you wouldn't be able to re-freeze after fertilisation - these do have a slightly lower chance of working. From what I understand frozen transfers have a slightly higher chance of working than fresh for non-donor patients and imagine there may be some benefit on a donor cycle too as slightly less drugs.

I've had a couple of fresh DE cycles and subsequent frozen transfers. As I have the Prothrombin gene variant I can't take the pill so used Norethisterone instead (I also hated taking the pill when younger as it made me feel very flat). Has your consultant considered this?

Good luck x

[Amandaholland85]

Hi rainbowhope

From what i have read and lernd is that a frozen transfer has a better success rate with a 60 to 70 % i believe its because when they are frozen they are at the best thay can be and are frozen at that stage so when they Thor them out for inplanting thay get better results. I have a frozen embryo transfer and i am now 22 week and 2 days i hope this helps you and i wish you all the best x