Egg freezing patients ‘misled’ by clinics | BBC News
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Published 2024-03-13
The Fertility Network was reacting to BBC analysis that found 41% of clinics offering the service privately could be breaching advertising guidance.
The watchdog which sets guidance says clinics "must not give false or misleading information".
It comes as a record number of people are freezing their eggs.
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All Comments (21)
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If you’re 41 you need over 60 eggs frozen. Wow, it shows how difficult it is to conceive if you’re over 40!
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Population decline looking quite real at this point...
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However, if these women already have a partner (E.g. they’re able to create and freeze an embryo rather than an egg) then they can always opt for “pre genetic screening” (PGS) which boosts the success rate to around 60%. If you’re willing to double your chances by implanting two eggs, then the statistical likelihood of success is then quite high. I have two beautiful twin daughters to prove it.
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Some really horrible misogynistic comments under this video. When did we collectively lose our empathy?
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It's the same in the US. Thankfully, I pushed my doctor to tell me how many eggs I need for my age and thus, I made the fateful decision to go another round to go above the minimum 10. I did get enough eggs from which I have a 1 year old. Nevertheless, I suffered an infection and became infertile from the second egg retrieval.
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Misinformation by commercial health related services are common worldwide. Another very common one is storage of cord blood from newborns, with the promise that the stem cells can in the future be used for treating all kinds of disease including cancer. To date, approximately zero person has benefited from cord blood stem cell storage.
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Damn they just capitalised hope and dreams. It's like a ponzi scheme
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God bless this woman for speaking the truth and not sugarcoating or twisting the reality.
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There’s gotta be some way they’re doing it that has a high percentage though bc Hollywood actresses are having babies through their own fertilized eggs implanted in surrogates on a regular basis. Maybe they’re getting their eggs frozen at a young age I have no idea but it happens all the time. A LOT of A-list actresses’ kids were born this way.
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Amazing to hear that!!
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Dr Lucky Sekhon, a reproductive endocrinologist, has a calculator on her website that uses to data to calculate your chance of a live birth from your age and the number of eggs frozen. From this, you can kind of infer how many eggs you need to freeze depending on your age at the time of retrieval - it’s really helpful for anyone considering this procedure.
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It sounds like it costs a small fortune for delaying it.
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This is crazy . . .all to make money!
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Thank you 😊 for sharing 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
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The main point of the procedure is to relieve childfree women of the pressure from a ticking biological clock. If they want to be childfree now, chances are they want to remain that way in ten years as well. Only 12% of customers retrieve their eggs.
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Always prevention is better than cure, that's what women should bear in mind. Because this is one of greatest decisions that women can make
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What’s happening with world
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What 😮? I always thought it was guaranteed, like what's the point then?
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Personally if it came to that, I would rather just have a kid as a single mother. I mean, the equivalent price of freezing eggs would probably cover using a sperm donor and quite possibly enough childcare costs to alleviate the extra stress until the kid is old enough to start school. But I guess it depends on your priorities in life (I've personally just always cared more about having kids than ever settling down with a partner!)
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First world problems that aren't that big of a deal...
