EGG FREEZING SAN DIEGO
It’s the dream shared by couples across the globe — the true miracle to have a child. Unfortunately, a woman’s fertility hinders on egg quality. As women age — the chance of conception significantly decreases. Egg freezing in San Diego can help preserve future fertility and family-building options. Age is the most critical factor affecting fertility for women with female reproductive organs. In women ages 30 to 35, there is a progressive decline in becoming pregnant. After age 40, there is a major decline in conception and increased complications — making it difficult for a person to conceive.
At the leading egg freezing clinic in California, there are several reasons women choose egg freezing in San Diego as an option to preserve fertility. At Fertility Specialists Medical Group, we give our honest, evidence-based idea of the likelihood of live birth with frozen eggs as determined by the individual’s age, egg count, and fertility evaluation to help patients make sound decisions regarding egg freezing.
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Common Indicators for Egg Freezing
As part of the decision-making process, you may choose to freeze your eggs in San Diego for the following reasons:
- Education, career, or travel
- Relationship reasons
- Future family planning
- Uncertainties of having children
- Known medical conditions
- Ethical or religious concerns
- Transgender and transitioning
When to Freeze Your Eggs
Pregnancy is very tough on your body — so it’s optimal to achieve pregnancy while you’re still relatively young and overall healthy. While the recommended age increases due to preventive care, improved medical technology, and treatment techniques, age is still a significant factor for egg freezing in San Diego.
On average, the most optimal circumstances to freeze is in your early to mid-30s, while your fertility is still near its peak.
By your mid-30s, this decline hastens to reach minimal pregnancy potential. In addition, women in their late 30s and early 40s have an amplified risk of age-dependent changes in egg quality, sometimes resulting in miscarriage and/or genetic abnormalities in their children.
There are many conditions other than age that can affect the quantity and quality of your eggs.
These may include:
- Sickle cell anemia
- Autoimmune disorders
- Gender diversity treatments
- Radiation or chemotherapy for cancer or other illnesses
Number of Eggs to Freeze
When you choose to freeze your eggs, you will go through a process like IVF, in which ovarian stimulation medications are used to maximize the number of eggs that are retrieved and frozen to use later. The number of eggs to be frozen depends on three primary factors.
- the number of children you desire
- your age at the time of freezing your eggs.
- the number of eggs you can retrieve from one cycle.
At FSMG, we encourage you to freeze at least 10-15 eggs per planned pregnancy attempt. But these are very general numbers, and the recommendation will change with increasing age.
What is the Egg Freezing Process?
During the egg freezing process in San Diego, the patient will take an ovulation-inducing medication for 10 to 12 days to stimulate the ovaries to produce multiple eggs for retrieval. During this time, we monitor blood levels and perform ultrasound monitoring to ensure the appropriate response to the medication is occurring. The mature eggs are then retrieved, with the woman or transgender man under mild anesthesia. This is an outpatient procedure, which usually lasts 30 minutes.
Eggs are then flash-frozen through a process known as vitrification. When the individual is ready to begin the next part of fertility treatment, the frozen egg(s) are thawed by an embryologist and, typically, fertilized through an IVF technique known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). This process optimizes the chances of fertilization as it injects a single sperm directly into the cytoplasm of the egg, where fertilization occurs.
The fertilized egg, or embryo, is then transferred into the patient’s uterus.
Cost of Egg Freezing
Egg freezing costs in San Diego can be broken down into three categories:
- Consultation, hormonal medication, and egg retrieval
- Storage
- Transfer
As each person and situation is unique, the cost may vary. But typically, the total cost can be around $20,000. Freezing eggs is approximately $10,000-$12,000, with an annual storage fee typically about $500.
Complimentary Egg Freezing Consultation
Includes initial appointment for new patients only at no charge. Excludes international patients.
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