Is FET better than fresh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP you said it best, and with FET you can do a medicated cycle so you can control date of ET or a natural cycle without all the hormones prior to ET. I think people get hung up on the fact that their future offspring is frozen, but stats prove that if they can survive all that manipulation they are healthy babies.

We did frozen DE. My current pregnancy, the egg was frozen and embryo was frozen--She is my super Ice Princess

[Anonymous]

Stats are better on FETs. There are probably numerous reasons why, but the stats don't lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP but do you know why FET is better than fresh? We're just starting, should I ask about only doing a FET instead of fresh first?

IVF (induced superovulation) is an unnatural thing for your body created by levels of hormones that would never occur naturally. In a nutshell, the system is shocked and irritated which could be suboptimal for embryo implantation. FET involves lower levels of meds, no superovulation and creates better conditions for implantation. HOWEVER, if you read clinical policy bulletins for insurance companies, this course of action is still considered experimental, so the current medical thinking is not 100% on board with it due to the lack of large scale double blind controlled randomized studies on this.

That should no longer be true as egg freezing is it is no longer considered experimental: https://www.fertilityauthority.com/articles/asrm-egg-freezing-no-longer-experimental ...that is, unless the insurance companies can get away with not following official word from the ASRM?

Egg freezing is a completely different procedure from Frozen Embryo Transfer.

[Anonymous]

I've has 2 fresh transfers - the first was a success (even with a mild case of OHSS) but the second wasn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stats are better on FETs. There are probably numerous reasons why, but the stats don't lie.

It's mostly because FETs are more likely to be tested embryos.

[Anonymous]

I also just had my first failed fresh transfer at Shady Grove about a week and a half ago. We were going to wait - but in the end decided to go right into the frozen with one frozen blast. I'm also in the research study and since we went right into it didn't need to do birth control, just started estrogen last night. I'm encouraged by some of the posts here - I really hope it works for us since this is all we can afford (mentally / physically / financially) for 2015. Good luck to the original poster!