Advice on fertility test results and egg freezing

[NoNameBasis]

Hi,

I am 34 years and considering freezing my eggs. Timing and life circumstances are not what they need to be at the moment for me to have a baby but I would like to preserve at least an option to try later. I had a fertility test and these were the results. The gynoe consultant didn't really explain much and I am due to speak a fertility consultant in a week. I am considering going through egg freezing process at the IVI clinic in Madrid.

Can anyone please help me make some sense of these results? The gynoe just said "it's ok" but it really doesn't seem to be that simple!

FSH 6.4
AMH 1.21 ng/mL (seems that translates to 8.5714 pmol/L)
14 follicles during a follicle count (6 on one overy, 8 on the other)

I am really worried that I am running out of time so any advice would be really appreciated. Also, if anyone here has gone through the process of egg freezing with IVI, I would love to hear from you.

Thanks a lot!

I would say your AMH is low for your age - when I was 36 mine was 12.9 and I was told that was below average (think they want to see 15)

Only problem I can see with going abroad is that's where your eggs will be stored so all future treatment with a partner will need to be done out there (it expensive to move eggs/blastocysts especially country to country - not so bad within the U.K. if you ultimately decide you want to use a different clinic to do the fertilisation and transfer)

Also you need to factor in multiple cycles as eggs don't freeze/thaw as well as blastocysts so the drop off rate is much much higher

@ivfdreaming

I would say your AMH is low for your age - when I was 36 mine was 12.9 and I was told that was below average (think they want to see 15)

Only problem I can see with going abroad is that's where your eggs will be stored so all future treatment with a partner will need to be done out there (it expensive to move eggs/blastocysts especially country to country - not so bad within the U.K. if you ultimately decide you want to use a different clinic to do the fertilisation and transfer)

Also you need to factor in multiple cycles as eggs don't freeze/thaw as well as blastocysts so the drop off rate is much much higher

Thank you. That's good to know. I had figured my AMH was too low but hopefully the quality of the eggs isn't too far declined. I don't really know how I got here, to b e honest. I was going to try for a baby a few years ago but it just didn't feel right at the time and I wasn't in the right head space, work was too busy and my husband and I began to have problems and have since separated, so I am now finding myself in this unfortunate situation, not quite knowing what to do.

I would love to freeze eggs locally but I currently live abroad and so travelling back to London would mean quarantine, which isn't feasible, given that I am in full time employment. I also cannot do it locally, as the freezing limit is 5 years and you have to be married to use your eggs. As such, Spain is my best shot and it seems IVI is quite well regarded.

Hi @NoNameBasis

A few things to think about though not expecting you to answer.

If you freeze eggs would it be with the intention of hopefully meeting a man and then using them if you didn't fall pregnant naturally?
Would you consider a sperm donor and single parenthood if that is your only option? If the answer is yes would you look into freezing a mixture of embryos and eggs? If yes then bear in mind the Spanish donor anonymity rules.

If you don't know much about IVF it's worth saying that not all eggs become embryos and not all embryos are good enough to freeze.

Have IVI discussed with you how many eggs you aim to bank? Will you do more than one egg collection?

I have frozen eggs in Madrid but not with IVI, with Instituto Bernabeu as part of an IVF programme.
I had a consultation with IVI in Alicante before deciding which clinic. IB prices for second egg collection were over £1k cheaper than IVI although that wasn't our reason for choosing, and you might only do one egg collection anyway.

Given that you love abroad anyway then Spain seems like a good option, in general the clinic's there are very good.

Should be that you live abroad but maybe you love it too!