Frozen donor egg at Shady Grove?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
On the basis of experience with frozen donor egg and price alone, RBA wins.

Non-scientific reasons: on forums I rarely hear complaints about the service at RBA, but they are legion about SG, and I myself have not had a good DE experience there.

RBA really isn't cheaper. SGF is 18k and RBA is 16,5. You'll probably easily spend the difference in travel and outside monitoring. Also, RBA doesn't have that much better stats than SGF does. You're looking at low 60s at SG to mid 60s at RBA.

I can refute your anecdotal evidence with my own about RBA. Their consults are nothing more than a sales pitch and they are fairly disorganized with on boarding out of state clients.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
On the basis of experience with frozen donor egg and price alone, RBA wins.

Non-scientific reasons: on forums I rarely hear complaints about the service at RBA, but they are legion about SG, and I myself have not had a good DE experience there.

RBA really isn't cheaper. SGF is 18k and RBA is 16,5. You'll probably easily spend the difference in travel and outside monitoring. Also, RBA doesn't have that much better stats than SGF does. You're looking at low 60s at SG to mid 60s at RBA.

I can refute your anecdotal evidence with my own about RBA. Their consults are nothing more than a sales pitch and they are fairly disorganized with on boarding out of state clients.

The guarantee program, with 5 cycles, for frozen at RBA is $30,500, and at SG it's $39,000. My experience is that RBA is much more reasonable if you run into a bad donor as well, which is more common that you would think.

As for success rate, SG's is for fresh. And it's 50%.

In the end the choice is up to OP, but I wouldn't do frozen at SG until they have more experience with it, and I certainly wouldn't pay more to do it at SG. From here, travel to Atlanta is not so expensive.

[Anonymous]

It's six cycles at SG so the price is comparable. The success rate is also about 50% for frozen.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, RBA changing their guarantee rubs me the wrong way. If you go over to one of the RBA threads on the fertility forums there are a lot of ladies that didn't get two high quality embyros, probably why it's changing I would assume.

[Anonymous]

Chiming in a year later...major difference also right now between RBA (where am a current patient with full access to their My Egg Bank donor bank) is that there have lately only been approx 12 Caucasian dinor available for frozen eggs. Shady Grove has approx 60 Caucasian donors available...having me think about becoming a patient there too to increase our donor options. Anyone else have similar experience?