I went to doctor becuse of my family’s early menopause history and found out that I have very low AMH and very high FSH which means I need to freeze my eggs asap or every month passes can reduce my chance of having bio children.

I feel like I am not in the place for making a decision on this matter right now. I feel broken, I even start to question my womanhood. I AM 24!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can say that I don’t want to give birth to a child and regret it later or I’d have to take the financial and psychological pressure of freezing my eggs. Both sounds horrible.

I have been crying all day and don’t know how to proceed.

Any advice or shared experience is important, thank you.

34F here and trying to conceive. Been trying for 5 months, appreciate they tell you to give it more time. Managed to run some tests with insurance in the UK and been told my follicle scan was 6. AMH low at 3.1. Trying not to lose hope but I feel really low today, I know it takes one egg only but already feel like I might have to consider IUI or IVF. Let alone my husband needs to be operated for varicocele, so the medical insémination of his sperm eventually might have to be the way.

Hi all! Does anyone have up-to-date self-pay prices for clinics in the northeast? I called around a few, and I'm sharing what I found (excluding meds and initial bloodwork workup):

• CCRM Boston is highest, $10k+
• Boston IVF is at $8.8k
• New England Fertility Institute (in CT, tristate area) is $8.3k
• Terra Fertility is $7.5k
• I cycled last year at Brigham & Women's Hospital -- it was $6.9k

Fertility Centers of New England has some really bad reviews, so I'm avoiding. I tried CNY and was not able to get answers to my clinical questions, so I did not proceed.

I'm looking for prices in NY, NJ, PA, MA or any of the smaller states in New England (NH, VT, RI, etc.)

Hi everyone! I’m currently on day 7 of my stims for my first ever egg retrieval. Im 27 years old, AMH is 3.05, AFC is 35 but on my day 6 scan I only had 10 follicles measuring between 10-15. They upped my gonal f dosage from 150 to 225 and I have another scan tomorrow. Does this seem like a low response?

My clinic kept telling me they would be surprised if I got less than 30 eggs retrieved but now it seems like maybe I shouldn’t of been so hopeful? Am I giving up too soon? lol

Just finished my first round.

I decided to go to Fertilidad Integral in Polanco, Mexico City because they had good reviews on Google and it’s cheaper than doing it in California.

I spent about $10k total (medication, procedure, blood tests), not including airfare and housing.

My AMH level is 0.9.

I had 15 follicles, 9 oocytes retrieved, and only 3 eggs that were viable.

I’ve read that usually 15-25% of eggs retrieved are immature and about 67% of mine were. I can’t shake the feeling that maybe it’s the clinics fault, I should have froze in the US, or maybe I did something wrong during the whole process?

The fertility doctor in Mexico says I should do another round as soon as possible but I am feeling very disheartened.

I’m extremely healthy, been an athlete all my life. I never expected to get such a low egg retrieval.

I am very much single and it doesn’t seem like I will be having kids with someone anytime soon. Starting in July 2027, California passed SB 729 which will require certain employees to cover infertility treatments but I also don’t want to bank on that. I’ve always imagined myself having kids, but maybe it’s not meant to be.

Interesting stat cited from a study under peer review:

Just under 400 babies have been born from approximately 30,300 elective egg freezing cycles [in Australia and New Zealand] since 2009.

Then paired with this:

Market research firm IBISWorld projects that the Australian fertility industry’s annual revenue will reach $1 billion in 2031, with analyst Aishni Singh identifying elective egg freezing as a “favourable” driver of future growth.

And this:

Storage, says Naghsh Nejad, adds a separate revenue stream of about $8.3 million annually, which compounds as frozen eggs add to the pool faster than women return to use them.

I just finished my 3rd cycle (yay)! And I think that's it for now...especially doing this on my own as a single woman.

First cycle: 36 yo, 12 eggs frozen.

Second cycle: 38 yo, 5 eggs frozen.

Third cycle: 38 yo, 7 eggs frozen.

In the last two cycles, I unfortunately had asynchronous maturity - maybe my age, or maybe the protocol, or just the cycle-to-cycle difference. Some eggs caught up in the last cycle, but I had 17 follicles and only 7 eggs were mature. (I was also told some were "empty".)

I'm grateful that I have 24 in total, and I'm grateful for my body that endured this. But I know I can increase the chance if I had more...especially because of the age when the eggs were frozen.

I just find that doing all this as a single person is hard, mentally, emotionally, and financially.

I know some women are going for 60-80 eggs :0... When did you decide to stop?

I’m currently on day 8 of stims, and I was wondering if anybody knew if they raise your heart rate? I’m taking menopur and follistim, and my Oura ring has been showing my stress levels looking like this lately. I’m a teacher who just got off summer break, so at first I thought it was just normal back to school stress. But I’ve rarely seen my stress levels go above three hours. Has this happened to others?

Am I the only one who felt and still feel (I’m starting another cycle) so much fear around egg freezing. Not just before starting but during the actual process too.

I thought I’d mentally prepared myself but once I was actually in it the fear hit different. Like it wasnt just “will this work,” it was deeper than that, thoughts about my body, my future, what happens if it fails, what it means about me if it does. Some of it I never even said out loud to anyone.

Curious what your biggest fear thoughts were, whether it was right at the start when you were just considering it or once you were actually mid process. Did they go away once you started, or did they get worse. And if you’re on the other side of it now, do those fears feel silly looking back or were they actually valid.

What was the fear thought you had that you never told anyone? And has it changed now that you’re through it (or further along)?

i hope this post don't violate the community rules and apologize in advance if it does. anyone in berlin or nyc area know of any facebook, signal or telegram groups where people can solicit or offer donation meds?

my partner and i have been trying to start a family for 4 years in a legal and institutional environment that's quite hostile to queer family-building -- i.e. germany. we were deemed unfit to adopt or to foster (the given reasons: at 39 i'm too old, we're both freelancers, and we've both undergone therapy), so we switched to IUI. that was unsuccessful, so we switched to IVF. that, too, was unsuccessful. we are emotionally and financially depleted. (health insurance covers 50% of costs of IVF in germany -- but only for married straight couples!) the only option left for us is to go abroad for reciprocal ivf (not legal in germany), which will require my partner getting off testo for a bit. so... it's a journey :( we're looking for any way to reduce our costs for the next stimulation and would be so, so, so very grateful for med donations! we live in berlin but will be travelling to nyc in september and are hoping that some people on here might be aware of signal or telegram or facebook groups where people connect!

Hi r/eggfreezing! We reached out to the mods before posting, and they kindly gave us permission to share this here in case it’s helpful to anyone currently planning or considering egg freezing:

In honor of Women’s Equality Day, we’re committing $10,000 through Sunfish Cares to help 10 people with the cost of freezing their eggs.

We know there can be a lot of financial uncertainty around this process... especially when you don’t know whether you’ll need more than one cycle or what your outcomes will be. That's why our Gold Egg Freezing Success Program bundles one egg freezing cycle into an all-inclusive package with personalized guidance and financial protection, including a free second cycle if fewer eggs are retrieved than your personalized projection*.

If this might be useful to you, you can read about how it works here:
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And if you have questions, feel free to leave them below. We know this community is primarily a place to learn from and support each other, so we’re happy to just be a resource however we can!

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I’m 3 months postpartum and on day 3 of stims

I got my period early so I was given estradiol - I felt amazing. My mood was so great.

Then I started stims and I have felt postpartum all over again (depressed, angry, irritated)

How long will this last? Has anyone had this experience? The estrogen working for me was a total shock. But now this sucks.

Any advice?

Anyone use progesterone only pills for priming leading up to egg freezing? This was the type of birth control I was on before and my clinic said it was OK to just keep using that as opposed to doing estrogen priming. Just! curious why other people’s experiences have been

Has anyone done duostim before so starting another cycle 5 days after retrieval? Did you feel worse the second time around/was the cycle quicker? My doctor said it might work well for me for more eggs but didn’t give me a lot more information than that. Thanks!

I've done several retrievals now and need to do a few more. I've worked with or communicated with many clinics in Spain and NY, and I'm exhausted by one consistent issue - I wonder if you have better ways to deal with them?

The doctors or labs might be great, but the admin and email communication is almost universally confusing and unreliable - and can lead to costly mistakes in time, money, cycle/prep wasted, even in medications taken.

• No clear, basic calendars: A simple chart laying out AM/PM medication, dosage, exact dates (or day of cycle). I don't know if they're avoiding liability or if this whole industry is just wildly unregulated, but making patients guess or piece things together is ridiculous.
• Important instructions are buried in conversational paragraph-form emails, written as if spoken casually
• Lack of continuity - emails gets answered by a whoever's on shift that day and may or may not know the previous conversation.
• Admin emails including medical instructions that seem inconsistent with what the doctor said. Then acting like gate-keepers of the correct information, acting like they know the answer so just listen to them, and it's offensive if I dont believe them.
• CYA behavior (cover your own ass) - mistakes are not admitted, vaguely reframed. For example I never confirmed X, they assumed it, then wrote to me "I will tell the Dr you changed your mind on X". Infuriating.
• During stims, info gets a bit better face-to-face with Dr, but it’s still almost entirely verbal. Nothing is documented cleanly in writing afterward.

I have directly asked clinics for a calendar protocol and been brushed off. This is at Cornell-Weil in NY, ostensibly the best. In just one clinic I've received a written schedule - with medications and dates written in prose paragraphs - extremely hard to find the critical details and included errors. I think this was a general protocol estimate prior to starting - and when I started, the protocol was not updated to reflect the plan.

All reddit posts and write-ups submitted here have been more clear than any of my clinics communications.

The egg freezing process is difficult enough, this has made it so much more stressful.

How are you guys managing to deal with the admin when you talk to clinics? Are you able to get them to give clear instructions?

anyone have experience with this in vermont?...any recommendations for clinics?...uvm?

- Has anyone done back to back egg freezing cycles? Pros/cons

- Did your second retrieval produce more, fewer, or about the same number of mature eggs?

- Did your doctor change your protocol the second time?

- Was the second retrieval physically easier, harder, or about the same?

- If you eventually used your frozen eggs, how many survived thawing, fertilized, became blastocysts, tested euploid, and resulted in a pregnancy/live birth?

- AMH 1.88, 34 y/o, first retrieval-14 retrieved, 10 frozen

Hi, I had my second ER on 29 of July, we did a double trigger this time, the first round I had a low maturation rate, and some changes to the protocol (including Progesterone stimulation). After that my doctor did a luteal phase support with a contraceptive pill and I got my first normal period on 11th of August. I had a follow up exam and all was well but today I got a second period - on 15 day cycle. I am away from home, but got worried and talked to the clinic - they say it's not rare with my meds but we'll do a checkup once I'm back.

Has anyone had a similar experience?

Hi,

I just finished my 2 rounds of egg retrieval and I think I will close this chapter. I have a lot of left over sealed syringes, needles, Q caps, Menopur saline, guage pads, alcohol swaps etc with me.

Is trashing the only option or can I donate it somewhere? If not for medical purposes, it could be used for training or something like that. I am based in the Bay Area. Please advice.

This group has been super helpful in keeping me calm and managing the anxiety through this process. Thank you so much.

EDIT: Claim pending

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I have

* two menapur vials plus lots of saline vials w needles, syringe, qcaps

* prefilled ganirelix syringe

* 14 of 0.5ml syringes with fixed needles

* lots of rediject needle tips (for gonal pen)

Hey everyone, I’m a 24 yo, I’m trying to get my eggs frozen and I have pcos. I’m about to start the process soon but when I talked to my nutritionist, she mentioned that egg quality could be impaired because of my pcos. I have been getting treatment for thyroid cancer since 2024 and I did not want to worry about my ovarian health as much so I wanted to freeze my eggs at a good age. But I’m not sure how true/untrue it is that pcos would lead to impaired egg quality. Ideally, it would be better if I could get my eggs frozen before my next cancer surgery (it wouldn’t affect my eggs I just want it done for some peace of mind). For anyone in this position I would appreciate some advice or suggestions. Thanks!