I’m 22 not in a relationship but have very low egg reserve.
It just seems to me like this hasn’t really been around that long to know how successful it is further down the line ie say 10 years when people are ready to thaw and try to have a baby.
I’ve been told there’s only a 5% chance. At 22 this fills me with horror.
Hi, I don't have direct experience with this but I did want to respond. I know you've had really difficult news. I also had fertility issues since I was your age, it does feel very unfair. Try not to be disheartened though.
Who told you you only had a 5% chance? Egg freezing has come along way so I believe, if eggs are flash frozen most will survive a thaw. As far as I've seen your chances would be roughly the same as IVF after that point. I suppose to optimize your chances you want to find a clinic that uses the newest techniques, and that you can freeze an optimum amount of eggs for future use. Best of luck to you!
Frozen eggs dont do as well as frozen embryos and I dont know of anyone personally that has done this....probably as its only being used more frequently of late. I think if you manage to get a good number of eggs banked then this ups your chances but I still dont think the rates are that great. I think the age factor is the biggest thing. The HFEA has a page on it...
hfea.gov.uk/treatments/fert...
Thank you for your reply. Please may I ask you about your journey from when you were my age to now? Thank tiu
Well I'm quite a bit older than you at 42, will be 43 this year. I didnt meet someone special to settle down with until I was 34. We talked about children and got engaged, I stopped the pill so wasnt trying but want not trying either if you know what I mean. We went on to get married but had met a couple on holiday just the year before that and they told us about their donor IVF. They were very open and for some reason it started me questioning why we hadnt gotten pregnant yet and trotted off to the GP. They did initial tests. Everything on paper with me was ok but by this point I was 37 going on 38. My husband however got told he had a very low sperm count and we got referred straight to IVF. So my AMH at that point was 7.19. We got a decent number of eggs that fertilised successfully but not many of them got to day 5. The ones that did, well they disnt stick. After a couple of go's the consultant advised donor eggs would give us better success so considering the cost of continuing with my own eggs we moved to DE. We have tried various transfers, got 2 pregnancies which we lost but have discovered lots along the way....mainly that my body doesnt conform to "normal" protocols. We are still continuing to try once all of this mess if over. I know you are a lot younger and must be stressing out but there are other options out there is you need to consider them. I'm not gonna lie moving to DE is a tough, tough decision and there was a certain degree of mourning for my own eggs but to give us the best chance of being a family it was something I was willing to do. Take care. Feel free to ask me or private message if you would prefer.xx
I haven’t had to freeze my eggs but I have been through multiple rounds of ICSI and my husbands sperm is frozen after sperm retrieval. In 2017 the success rate of frozen eggs was about 19% but the numbers using frozen eggs is a much smaller number than those using frozen embryos so it will always be harder to give in depth results. There are the same risks of developing OHSS, and a small study said the risk of miscarriage may be slightly higher in thawed frozen eggs. The best time to look at freezing is in your early 20s, but it is very expensive and isn’t usually done on the nhs. Also you will be charged every year they are frozen. The longest time you can freeze your eggs is 10 years so if you freeze them now you would have to use them by the time you are 32. It’s possible the person you spoke to who said 5% wasn’t informed of the newest techniques. If you are looking for a clinic, speak to a few as the costs and what their specialities are will vary drastically. Good luck x
I haven't frozen any eggs but I have had 3 cycles of IVF, starting when I was 30. I have very low AMH for my age and after the 3 cycles, it was recommended I use doner eggs on my next cycle. As the ladies above have stated, eggs don't do any where near as good as embryos when freezing them from what the stats say. But if I had known at the age of 22 what I know now, I would have started this journey sooner rather than later. We are told on this journey, younger eggs are so much better. Potentially being in your position and money allowing, I probably would have done a few banking rounds if I wasn't in a relationship/ready. I have been on a break from ivf and now risk not having my own eggs I need to do another cycle, each year my eggs getting older and now I'm over 35, my fertility decreasing at a rapid speed. I would have loved the opportunity to have banked eggs at 22, they would be young and I would probably have had a few more. My last 2 cycles of ivf I only 3 eggs in total. Have you spoken to a clinic/consultant about what they recommend you do? It is expensive but when you get to my age (older eggs 😁) you wish that you would have been able to do this when your eggs were younger. Good luck with your decision, I can imagine it's not easy xx
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Anyone had serious headaches after egg collection?
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