How You Can Freeze Your Own Eggs & Cost of Doing It

As you can imagine you will need to go pretty much through an entire IVF cycle with the exception of the egg fertilization and the embryo transfer. Basically, our IVF clinics abroad will subtract the fee for the embryo transfer from the total price of your IVF cycle. Your all inclusive package will start at approximately $7,100. This includes Menopur for ovulation stimulation (you can upgrade to Gonal F for an additional fee), egg retrieval, egg freezing, one round trip airfare and hotel accommodation for up to 9 days (if you start your stimulation with a local OBGYN doctor who will monitor you for the first 8 days). There is an additional $500 per year fee for storing eggs/sperm/embryos with our clinic. The total cost of all procedures and the storage for the first year will be $7,600.

Let us briefly explain the above mentioned fees related to freezing eggs/sperm/embryos. The first charge is for freezing eggs/sperm/embryos and it is a one time fee of $500. The second charge is for storing eggs/sperm/embryos and that charge is $500 per year.

Our IVF clinics abroad use the latest cryopreservation approach, which dramatically increase cryosurvival (percentage of eggs/embryos that are alive after thawing) of embryos. Traditionally, IVF clinics used the slow freezing method that has been used since the 1980’s. Our clinics use rapid freezing technique recently developed in Japan called Vitrification. With Vitrification, the temperature is lowered at 23,000 degrees C° per minute. That is 70,000 times faster than in traditional approach. Such rapid cooling coupled with cryoprotactant fluids prevents formation of ice crystals in embryos.

Our fertility doctors typically recommend freezing embryos rather than eggs. Statistics show that pregnancy rates are just as high in properly frozen embryos as in fresh embryos which have never been frozen. The same cannot be said for frozen eggs; pregnancy rates for frozen eggs are 15-20 lower than those for frozen embryos.

Lastly, keep in mind, if you choose to have ovulation stimulation done in the U.S by your local OBGYN, you can reduce the number of days that you will have to stay outside the U.S. from 15 to around seven or eight. Moreover, we will subtract the cost of Menopur or Gonal F from the total price.