How about the fertility capacity of frozen eggs?
11/20/2015 01:47:00 AM
Before we decide to cryopreserve our own eggs for the future use,
we must think about the impact of freezing.
According to many scientific articles, the risk of egg freezing is related to the maternal age, not the procedure itself. The findings are concordant to the report released by Stork Fertility Center in newest annual meeting of Taiwan Society of Reproductive Medicine.
How long can my eggs remain frozen?
11/11/2015 12:48:00 AM
After I have made up my mind to do egg freezing, what information I should know about this technique?
1. Longer the storage is, lower the success rate of thawing egg is?
At Stork Fertility Center, the mature eggs (MII stage) would be vitrified and then stored in the liquid nitrogen, which performs a -196℃ circumstance to stop biological activity in the cells. The previous scientific reports showed that no significant relations exist between long-term storage and quality of thawing eggs based on the stable circumstance and reliable freezing/thawing techniques. — a record-breaking case can be seen here: Monica Zapotoczny
2. If the techniques are workable, how long can I store my eggs?
According to the Taiwan Assisted Human Reproduction Act, there is no time limit to the autologous egg freezing. However, the donated eggs (or sperms) should be used in 10 years. The fresh and frozen eggs displayed similar clinical outcomes, so the storage time is just depended on the individual schedules.
3. If I am menopausal, can I use the donors' frozen eggs?
The uterine status and menstrual cycles can be regulated by the external hormones. Thus the success rate of thawing eggs is related to the maternal age of the donated egg rather than the age of the egg recipient — An oocyte recipient at the Stork Fertility Center got healthy twins by using the donors' eggs, and she was already 62 years old!
This is the real settling down
10/29/2015 02:42:00 AM
I am perhaps affected by my original family, and thus I always have a dream about owning my sweet home. In this dream, I have a dearest husband, two adorable angels, and a cozy house. When I went out alone every weekend, I saw so many pictures on the street—young couples with their baby strollers. These were the most beautiful scenes in my mind.
How to do the injections for ovarian stimulation
10/19/2015 06:25:00 PM
I
am not nurse. How can I do the injections for myself?
The
automatic injection pen is wildly used. You just need to remember four steps—
1. Load the
medicine cartridge
2. Check the
prescribed dose
3. Place the
needle on the pen
4. Inject
the medicine
More
details about the injections are as follows,
A. Puregon
(MSD): see the animation of manual injection
It is one
kind of short-acting recombinant follicle-stimulating hormone (rFSH), and is mostly injected daily.
B.
Gonal-f(Merch): see the animation of manual injection
It is one
kind of short-acting rFSH, and is mostly injected daily.
C.
Elonva(MSD) : see the animation of manual injection
It is one kind of long-acting rFSH, and it supports multi-follicle growth up to seven days.
It is one kind of short-acting recombinant luteinizing hormone (rLH), and is used in the
patients with lower serum LH levels.
E.
Cetrotide (0.25mg): see the animation of manual injection
It
is a short-acting GnRH antagonist, and is used in the patients with higher
serum LH levels to prevent premature LH surge.