Donor egg costs?
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Anonymous
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After a long infertility journey, my husband and I have decided to look into using donor eggs. Has anyone had experience with this at Columbia Fertility, and if so, what were the costs?
They told me that it makes more sense to use a fresh cycle so that I get as many eggs as possible, but the quote is $40K!! I'm already broke and emotionally drained from this. They told me that if I use frozen eggs, which comes in lots of 6-8, that I need to buy multiple lots to ensure success. I don't know what lots of frozen eggs cost. I also feel like they are encouraging me to purchase the most expensive option which is extremely frustrating as I have paid out of pocket for all costs to work with them for almost 10 years. I understand that Shady Grove has a shared risk option, but my experience at Shady Grove was not a good one. I went for a second opinion in my early 40s about my fertility options. The doctor was rude, told me I was too old to consider adopting a child, that I would never naturally be successful at having a baby, and tried to push the donor egg program on me. Any other cost information or suggestions would be appreciated! I'm kind of mentally and emotionally (not to mention financially) at the end of my rope here. Thank you! Also, I just want to say that this forum has been extremely helpful to me during my fertility journey. Thanks to everyone who shares on here! I've learned so much along the way. |
Anonymous
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In this situation I would go to the Czech Republic. It is about 5,000 euros for a donor egg cycle. There are various guarantees at different clinics. There are several popular clinics in Prague. I almost went to Gennet https://www.gennet.cz/en/ The online consult was good. With young eggs, these clinics get good results.
The IVF clinic in Zlin is also very well known in UK for donor egg cycles. They have a hotel attached to the clinic and the website says they can start planning cycles for foreign patients now. https://www.ivf-zlin.com/starting-price-ivf-cycle-with-donated-eggs You can take an interesting trip and have a cycle for a fraction of the cost here. |
Anonymous
Except you can't go right now due to COVID. OP, I paid about $25k for one cycle with frozen eggs and did not have success. I now really wish I had just paid the 40k to do fresh. I would not play the odds if I could do it over again. |
Anonymous
| We were in SG's shared risk DE program and i think it was around 31K. |
Anonymous
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Mine was stupidly expensive. Frozen or shared wasn’t really expected to work well for us due to MF issues. I did look at all the options though. Stupidly expensive would not have been my first choice, but I know we’re lucky it was doable.
Fresh or frozen, the cost for the procedure (ivf, meds, etc) is the same. So if u don’t do a shared risk type process, it does make sense to think about maximizing the number of eggs. Frozen eggs r less successful than fresh. While u should get at least one viable embryo from a lot of 6-7 fresh eggs, it’s less certain with frozen. An extra egg lot will be much less than a second round. Costs vary for lots. U can usually get a free login for egg banks and see a good amount of info about the costs and donors. Picking a donor that has had success already, can also be good. |
Anonymous
| All I can say is to do fresh. I had to do 3 separate frozen cycles with 3 different donors and didn’t have success. |
Anonymous
| Use SGF shared risk. Use a different doctor. |
Anonymous
| I'm also trying to get a sense of donor egg costs. It looks like it can cost about $25k for frozen cycle and $40k for fresh? Does anyone else have numbers to share? I assume agency fees would be on top of these costs? I'm really curious about how expensive PP meant by "stupidly expensive" and why. There numbers are all pretty scary. |
Anonymous
| Did fresh single cycle (not shared risk) with a 1:3 donor converted to a 1:2 at SGF (this maximized # of eggs we got). Got pregnant the first transfer and have 9 embryos frozen. Cost was $21K. Shared risk would have been double the cost I believe. Good luck, OP! |
Anonymous
As PP pointed out, this isn't even an option now. But is it ever an option if you aren't white and/or willing to use a white egg donor? Are there non-white egg donors in the Czech Republic? Can a Black/ Asian/ Latina woman find a donor who resembles her there? I'm always surprised at how people push this suggestion without thinking about how that might not work for everyone. |
Anonymous
Give your PC BS a rest for everyone’s sake. Anyone smart enough to consider DE will understand the racial matching issue. |
Anonymous
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NP. There are donor egg clinics in Latin America, Greece, and other countries that are more popular with non-white folks. You can search the archives even.
OP, if cost is an issue I would confirm if overseas is an option or decide if you’re willing to wait. It’s really the best way to go, especially if you’re not interested in going back to SGF. I know too many people that went through multiple cycles with multiple donors using frozen egg lots. I’d try to find the money or consider international or shared risk if I were you. |
Anonymous
| FWIW I had success with frozen eggs. I was at a CCRM affiliated clinic and they only allowed use of CCRM eggs or Fairfax eggs due to quality issues with other egg banks (per what they told me.) CCRM eggs were 17K for a lot of 8 and one had the option of adding on up to 3 extra eggs for 1K each. Egg thaw was close to 1K. |
Anonymous
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We used frozen eggs (a cohort of 6 eggs from Fairfax Eggbank). I cycled at GW. All 6 eggs fertilized, but only 1 made blast. Got pregnant, but miscarried. Costs were close to $25,000.
We thought about going to Shady Grove next due to share risk program and costs, but we think it's egg donor database seems limiting. |
Anonymous
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shady grove also has a frozen egg bank in their shared risk, but it's more expensive than their base 1:3 fresh donor shared risk program- i think it's the same price as the 1:2 (one fresh donor shared between two families) program.
the shared risk pool varies a lot, the more desirable fresh donors are most likely to be in the 1:2 and 1:1 pools, and if a desirable donor ends up in the 1:3 pool they are usually completely selected within an hour or three. You *really* have to be ready to pull the trigger whenever you see someone that fits. we were just under $50k for a 1:2 fresh donor shared risk program and PGT. Our share was 20 mature eggs, 11 fertilized, and three made it to freeze. two were normal. first FET miscarried at 10 weeks, currently 20 weeks with our remaining embryo. I will be very happy if we get a take-home; despite having 5 more rounds available to us I may likely throw in the towel if this pregnancy fails... in which case it will be nice to get the base program price returned to us. (PGT isn't refundable) |