EF
Egg Freezing
Many women and couples may choose to start a family later in life. Through cyropreservation, egg freezing is a form of fertility treatment that preserves unfertilized eggs.
Egg Freezing is for:
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Couples or single women who are not ready to start a family
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Women with ovarian diseases
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Women undergoing surgery that may cause damage to the ovaries
The process,
explained simply.
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Depending on your reason for choosing egg freezing, you’ll go through diagnostic testing to see what the cause of your infertility is. Depending on the results, egg freezing may not be necessary or feasible, or the doctor might recommend alternative treatments to start.
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The doctor will review your diagnosis with you and discuss your treatment options. If you decide to use egg freezing, our doctor and staff will go over the entire process including financials to determine if egg freezing is right for you.
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The goal of egg freezing is to stimulate your ovaries to produce as many eggs as possible via at-home hormone injections that activates ovulation. You will obtain regular bloodwork and ultrasounds to ensure that you are monitored closely.
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36 hours post-injections, your eggs will be retrieved via a small needle through your vaginal wall into the follicles and ultrasound. The retrieved eggs will then be taken to a lab to count how many mature eggs were recovered.
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The mature eggs will then be quickly frozen in a process called vitrification, which stores eggs in cyro chamber tanks filled with liquid nitrogen until ready for use.
