Egg freezing, medically known as human oocyte cryopreservation. It is an effective procedure that allows the woman to go against the biological clock. It enables women to postpone pregnancy to a later date. In this phenomenon, eggs extracted, frozen, and stored. The success rate of the procedure depends on the age of the woman and ranges from approximately 14% to 30%.

What is the preparation for egg freezing?

Before you plan to extend your fertility, take note of the following points:

• Plan about your family goals: Sit with your partner and discuss family planning. If you’re pretty sure you want to get pregnant around 35, It will imply a different target plan than if you’re sure you’ll be waiting until you’re over 40. Accordingly, an egg-freezing storage plan made.
• Explore payment and financing options: Talk to your insurance provider to check whether your insurance plan would cover the treatment and medications.
• Extend Fertility has made egg freezing possible by offering you an option to pay in cash or credit or set up a monthly payment plan while preparing for your first egg freezing cycle.
• If you are planning to undergo egg freezing, a series of screenings and blood tests need to be completed anytime in 12 months before the procedure.
• Consider your calendar: To achieve desired results, it is important to decide when to freeze your eggs. Choose an optimum time for freezing so that there is no inconvenience in the process either by work, travel or any kind of social commitments. Consult the healthcare team to guide you for the most appropriate time to start the cycle.

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What is the procedure?

In the egg freezing procedure, a woman may choose to have the eggs thawed, fertilized, and transferred to the uterus as embryos to facilitate pregnancy in the future. It involves stimulating the ovaries with hormones to produce multiple eggs, thereafter retrieving the eggs from the ovaries and taking them to the laboratory. Here, at the lab, they are cooled at subzero temperature to be thawed at a future date.

Who would benefit?

Women under 38 years and wish to preserve the option of having healthy, genetically related children for a later date. Egg freezing has proved beneficial for women who anticipate becoming pregnant sometime later in the future. IT enables them to become a genetic parent using their frozen-thawed eggs. Plus, reduces the risk of having children with chromosomal abnormalities associated with ovarian aneuploidy. For women with no partner or case of women moral concerns egg freezing is a suitable alternative to embryo freezing.

Egg freezing is popular since the late 90s. Used for fertility preservation for young women suffering from cancer who are at risk of sterility as a result of the disease or its treatment.

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Egg Freezing Costs and side effects

Egg freezing is currently an expensive affair. The procedural cost of retrieval and storage of eggs similar to the IVF procedure may vary between Rs.50,000 to Rs.100,000. Once the eggs froze, the cost of retaining them in frozen stare recurring annual cost and varies between Rs.15,000 to Rs.30,000 per year.

The risks and side effects associated with the procedure are either nil or short-lived. The side effects reported are mainly as a result of the hormonal fluctuations caused by medications. PMS symptoms headaches, mood swings, insomnia, breast tenderness, bloating or mild fluid retention are common problems faced by women.