Freeze on Day 3 as PGS person on holiday!

[itwasalovelydreamwhileitlasted]

So I'm cycle day 1 today and just rang clinic to confirm cycle and book in for day 5/6 scan

I've now been told the embryologist who does the PGS is working out of one of their other clinics the time we will likely go in for egg collection!

Given 3 options

1. Delay cycle totally - but would mean wouldnt be able to do a transfer if we get a PGS normal embryo 🤞 before Xmas and so would be 2020 - just seems too long to wait

1. Have the egg collection at the other branch (London) which isn't that much of a faff to get to (from Birmingham) and PGS testing will be done there and frozen blasts transferred back to Bham once tests completed

1. Do egg collection at my clinic - freeze the embryos on day 3 and then 3 weeks later thaw and culture them to day 5 and biopsy them. Then re freeze to await results. Means 2x freezes and 3x thaws

Really can't decide what to do and DH is zero help - his input was oh well let's not bother with PGS 🤦‍♀️

Embryologist said there isn't any evidence that multiple thawing and freezing poses any great risk!

I definitely, definitely wouldn't do option 3.

Is there a reason for pgs? There's some evidence to suggest it's a bit flawed...

Option 2 if it isn’t too logistically difficult is the least disruptive embryo wise isn’t it? If you did option 3 and it was unsuccessful, you may regret having multiple freezes (even if this isn’t actually the reason for failure)

@physicskate
PGS is the only "thing" we haven't tried - I've had 5 miscarriages as well as 2 ruptured ectopics- we did one cycle without PGS and egg quality wasn't great.

It's taken a while to come to the decision of PGS and I'm aware that the science is still new but I'm tired of not having any answers.

Thanks @Anaesthetist83 I work in London all the time and actually have had scans at the London clinic during my first cycle and subsequent transfers so I know it isnt too logistically difficult to get there. Just means can't be home in bed within 15 mins like I could if I stayed local 😢

How annoying. I’d do 2 as well, as, to my mind, it’s the least disruptive to the embryos.

I would do option 2 if you don't mind the travel. This sounds a bit stressful trying to decide.

Sounds like option 2 is the winner ;-) Go for it itwasalovelydreamwhileitlasted

2 - good luck 🤞

I'd go for option 2, possibly with a hotel near the clinic so you can still be back in bed soon after!

It's annoying when cycles are delayed, my first one was delayed due to Christmas dates and it then impacted a different significant event which made it worse. And then was cancelled due to poor response.

That said after all you've been through a month isn't loads longer to wait (if that is the delay) but do whatever feels right for you.