Egg Freezing | IHR Guwahati

No, it is not painful. Other than taking routine S/C or I.M injections for 10-12 days using very thin needles. During the egg retrieval, you’ll be under anesthesia and won’t feel a thing. You may experience little soreness in the vaginal area and/or some abdominal cramping, similar to how you might feel when you’re getting your period.

No, you don’t have to take leave from your work during this period. You have to visit our clinic every day for about 1 hr to take injections and ultrasounds. This can be adjusted with prior appointments.

We recommend you take the day off from work on the day of your retrieval, so you can rest for the remainder of the day after the procedure. The vaginal soreness and cramping can last for a few days. But usually, that’s it.

A woman with a regular period can expect to get her next period at the same time she would have during a normal cycle, 28–30 days after her previous period began.

That depends on several factors, the most important one being age. That’s because your age at the time of freezing is the best way to predict how many of your eggs will be genetically normal. While there isn’t a specific “magic number” that will guarantee a pregnancy later on, women 34 or younger can feel confident that freezing 10 eggs will give them a high potential for creating at least one child if used later on. For women 35–38 years old, about 15 eggs are optimal; for women 38 and older, the data are more limited and less clear; a cautious approach would be to aim for freezing 20 eggs or more.

It depends. You can start a new cycle right after completing a prior cycle, so long as your baseline testing is normal. Some women may need a month or multiple months “off” between cycles to reach a normal baseline

IHR has had patients freeze their eggs and return to us 10 years later to have a baby. As per ART -ACT, one can freeze eggs for 10 yrs. View  -> ART Laws

Unfortunately, we cannot. The only information we can tell you about your eggs is if they are mature or immature. A mature egg does not mean it is good quality, but it means that it is at the stage that it can be fertilized (only mature eggs can be fertilized). While there are certain parameters that point to good egg quality (young age) we cannot tell anything about the health of an egg until it is fertilized by a sperm.

While it’s always good to live a healthy life, your eggs have been there with you for your entire life. Making alterations in your lifestyle will likely not change your egg quality. The exception here is smoking—smoking is not good for your eggs! The sooner you quit the better. And being obese (BMI: >25) definitely decreases the chances of pregnancy after transfer.

If you want to use your frozen eggs, they’ll be warmed and fertilized with partner sperm using in vitro fertilization (IVF) and will be transferred into your uterus.

The survival rates of eggs after freezing have increased(over 90%), particularly following the development of Vitrification technology. The egg vitrification survival rate can be very high; over 90% of frozen eggs can now survive thawing.

Your age at the time you freeze your eggs and how many eggs you freeze are the two most important factors affecting your chance of having a baby with frozen eggs.