DE questions

[bunnybun]

*my siggy mentions losses as well as my rainbow.  I'm so rusty on the etiquette....should I put a warning on all of my posts on this board?

hi ladies...DH and I are currently waiting on my ovarian reserve results to decide if we will attempt IVF #2 with my eggs or use a donor.  In 2014 my AMH was .24 so my RE has really been hinting to me that he thinks I will need to do DE this time around.  
DH keeps mentioning trying somewhere out of town where we can do a guaranteed cycle but I am so lost trying to research which clinics are best for DE cycles and which have good guarantee plans (or even a shared donor plan).

so my question is just in general what are some good clinics to look into and what can we be expecting to pay for a DE cycle...(guaranteed or not).  My RE told me I would prob pay Less for a donor at his clinic bc I required so much medicine.  (We paid around 22000 including meds).

thanks in advance, ladies!

[trytobearunner34]

Welcome!

We are doing our first IVF with donor eggs this summer. Our RE works with a couple of egg banks. We narrowed it down to My Egg Bank and NW Cryobank.

We selected our donor from NW Cryobank because she was the best fit for us, and, as an added bonus, we could actually "afford" the guarantee program :

For 5k:
1 blast that results in positive pregnancy test or two blasts to transfer results in $2500 back

In the event neither of the above occurs, they provide you with an additional set of 6 eggs at no cost.

If this doesn't make sense or if you have any additional questions, I would be happy to answer:).

[dukegirlsc]

Is there a certain region you would like to remain in for your cycle?

[bunnybun]

@dukegirl I am in the southeast but we are willing to travel for a highly rated clinic or for an affordable program that works for us...I'm just kind of doing preliminary research right now and was getting overwhelmed on Google.

[dukegirlsc]

bunnybun, CCRM has highly rated programs and shared risk as well as RBA in Atlanta. I wish I could offer more assistance. I did things a little different. We used an agency and a fresh donor, and we are cycling close to the donor for multiple reasons. However our clinic does offer shared risk and has a high success rate (MCRM) GL to you!

[longhornwino0907]

Happy to share information about our DE cycle overseas in the Czech Republic if you're interested. Including travel and medical expenses, we spent half what we would have at home. Medical costs alone were about a quarter what our clinic charged. And we got a two-week European vacation to boot.

Edit to tag bunnybun

[hero7]

bunnybun, we are also in the southeast and are doing DE at Shady Grove Fertility out of Rockville, MD (just outside of DC). They have one of (if not THE) best donor program in the country - they have a large database of fresh donors as well as work with a frozen database. They are really great with out of town patients - making things simple with 2 visits - 1 consults/testing, 1 is transfer.

You can do some initial calls/consults on the phone too before deciding to go on site.

The cost varies depending on your program - they do shared risk (guarantee) and shared cycle.

Here is the pricing I was given in May:

Donor Egg (single cycle- no refund & frozen embryo transfers not included- it would be $2000 to cryopreserve any embryos and $4600 for any frozen embryo transfers)
1:1 (one donor to one recipient)- $29,000
1:2 (one donor to two recipients)- $18,000
1:3-(one donor to three recipients)- $14,000

Donor Egg Shared Risk (6 cycles, money back guarantee, frozen embryo transfers included)
1:1- $55,000
1:2- $39,000
1:3- $30,500

Donor Egg Bank USA (frozen donor database):
Same pricing as the 1:2 program, doing a single cycle or the shared risk program

I'd be happy to give you more details if you have any questions. We are really happy with SGF so far.