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Has anyone participated in a IVF clinical study?

hopkintonbridehopkintonbride member
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How stressful was it? What were the results? Would you recommend it? I am completely OOP and this would be an incredible blessing but the risks seem to be a little scary and I'm not sure if it would be worth the financial savings. The study centers around freezing eggs for a cycle before transferring them in. The focus is to gain information on the experimental use of women freezing their eggs for future use. I've read that this can result in lower pregnancy rates and the rate of birth defects is unknown but supposedly the same as IVF. I'm just unsure I want to take the risks. TIA

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Re: Has anyone participated in a IVF clinical study?

  • kjcullenkjcullen

    I don't have any experience, but I guess you have to balance how much risk you are willing to take. If you couldn't afford IVF at all, and this was your only chance- it might be worth it. If you can swing the cost, then maybe it would be better to just pay OOP.

     

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  • Mel0569Mel0569

    Hi,

    I just participated in a clinical trial around egg freezing.   I was the 3 participant and sadly for me it didnt work, but the first two are pg and in late stages of their 1st trimester.  Note, I am over 35 so this does reduce my changes.

    We received a guarantee of 8 eggs of them 4 fert and 3 made it to a 3 day transfer.

    From a personal standpoint we paid $6,000 OOP as insurance does cover the clinical trial, but it may have been a better option for use to use 1 of our 3 IVF covered cycles with a donnor.  Since we might have been able to get a higher egg count and have some left over to freeze.   Under our insurance it would cost us about $10,000 including donnor fees, but we would get $5,000 back from our medical reimbursement account.

    If you are totaly out of pocket...I think it's a good option depending on the cost....if it's free then I would have done it again.   My clinic has been very sucessful using it.

    If you want any specific...let me know

    Mel  

     

     

     

     

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