Egg Freezing
What is Egg Freezing?
As women age, egg health drops off significantly. By freezing younger, healthier eggs, you can improve your chances of a successful pregnancy later in life. We offer a number of cryopreservation services, and we’re happy to discuss all of your options with you to find the best path for preserving your fertility.
why choose to freeze your eggs?
- Empowering Future Family Planning: Egg freezing offers women the ability to preserve their fertility, providing the opportunity to have children at a later time when it’s more suitable for their personal or professional circumstances.
- Advanced Preservation Technique: Utilizing the latest cryopreservation technology, egg freezing safely stores a woman’s eggs at a younger age, when they are of higher quality, increasing the chances of future pregnancy success.
- Beneficial for Medical Reasons: Egg freezing is an invaluable option for those undergoing medical treatments that might affect fertility or egg quality, such as chemotherapy or surgery, allowing them to preserve their eggs before proceeding with treatment.
- High Success Rates with Vitrification: The modern method of fast-freezing, known as vitrification, has significantly improved the success rates of egg freezing, ensuring better survival, fertilization, and pregnancy rates when the eggs are later used.
Who Is Egg Freezing Right For?
Egg Freezing at Pinnacle may be right for those who:
- Want to wait to have a child.
- Trans patients with eggs wishing to preserver fertility before undergoing testosterone treatment.
- Have PCOS, endometriosis, or other diagnoses that can affect fertility.
- Are going through cancer treatments that can injure or destroy a healthy egg supply, like chemotherapy and radiation.
- Are undergoing surgical removal of a fallopian tube, an ovary, or the uterus.
The Egg Freezing Journey
Stimulating Egg Production
You will start with daily hormone injections to stimulate your ovaries to produce multiple eggs. The goal is to harvest a good number of healthy eggs to increase the chances of successful freezing and future use.
Ovulation and Egg Retrieval
Once enough eggs have matured, a hormone injection will be administered that induces ovulation (releasing the mature eggs). After about 36 hours, the outpatient egg retrieval procedure will be performed.
Egg Vitrification
The retrieved eggs are rapidly frozen using a process called vitrification. Vitrification helps ensure that your eggs are preserved at their highest quality.