Egg/Sperm Freezing

Egg/Sperm Freezing

1.  Egg Freezing

• Egg freezing is a process when eggs from a woman are retrieved, frozen and stored for future use.
• Patients have to do a screening and blood test before the egg freezing program.
• Will be given 10 days of injection to stimulate your ovaries to boost as many eggs, and the retrieval day will fall on day 12 of the stimulation cycle.
• Storing frozen eggs gives women the opportunity to preserve their fertility until they are ready to start a family.

Which categories may wish to consider egg freezing?

• Wish to delay children to pursue career
• Have a medical condition that affects fertility

2. Sperm Freezing

• Procedure in which the sperms from men are frozen and stored for future use.
• Patients have to do a sperm test and blood test in order to start a sperm freezing program.
• Once the reports are normal, proceed to freeze the sperms through tube forms.

Why should freeze and store sperm?

• Have a medical condition that may result in infertility later in life.
• Sperm can be frozen and stored long-term for people who face losing their fertility due to medical treatments.