I am due to start a egg donor cycle in the next few months, I am just curious about first time donors compared to 'proven' donors, could you throw some light on this for me please? I know a 'proven' donor is someone who has donated eggs before with a successful outcome but my clinic use donors with proven fertility as well so I'm not sure what the difference is, in general are success rates higher with a proven donor? Does it mean they are more fertile?
I am due to start a egg donor cycle in the next few months, I am just curious about first time donors compared to 'proven' donors, could you throw some light on this for me please? I know a 'proven' donor is someone who has donated eggs before with a successful outcome but my clinic use donors with proven fertility as well so I'm not sure what the difference is, in general are success rates higher with a proven donor? Does it mean they are more fertile?
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Muire
"Proven fertility" usually means they have had children. "Proven donors" usually means they have been used in successful egg donor cycles before. The latter is more important. One might ask how many of their cycles were successful. 3 out of 3? 1 out of 4? It might influence your choice.
You might ask about donor embryo. There are many thousands of frozen embryos around the country that will never be used because the parents had their desired number of children. The FDA has recently changed the laws to make these easier to use in donation cycles (previously they would have just been disposed of). It's basically just an FET cycle, so should cost less than $5000, compared to an egg donor cycle which costs around $30,000. You may want to shop around for a clinic that will do it and has good success rates with frozen donor cycles. It's very easy to travel long distances for this procedure, since it does not require frequent visits to the center that performs the transfer (you can do your ultrasounds locally), and the transfer date can be easily predicted (even scheduled) well in advance. The down side is that the embryos are already fertilized, so neither of you would have a biological relationship to the child. That's very important to some, not so much to others. The success rates will be lower than with fresh donor cycles, too, but the price still seems like a bargain to me.
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Hi Ghost
Thank you so much for your reply and for clearing that up for me, you made a very good point of how many times a 'proven' donor has donated to a successful cycle, that would make a difference to our decision alright. We have already done one cycle with a first time donor (with proven fertility) which was an FET that didn’t work out, only 2 out of our 15 frozen embryos made it to blastocyst stage which means we have none left over so its back to the drawing board. Maybe using a 'proven' donor next time would make a difference, its just we weren’t aware of that option first time around as it was only just mentioned in our follow up appointment with our RE last week.
I live in Ireland and I’m not aware of anywhere here that does embryo donation which would be a great option. The clinic we are with is the only clinic in the country that have a European Egg Donation programme option, they work along with another clinic in the Ukraine using donors from that country so we are limited with choices unless we travel outside the country. In saying that we are happy enough to stay with our current clinic as they are excellent, they leave no stone unturned in their investigations and are very helpful and kind. We will be making an appointment with the Donor Coordinator who we hope to see in the coming weeks to arrange our next cycle so we'll discuss it further with her then, I just wanted to clarify the difference between each type of donor before hand so we can put our thinking caps on before then. Thanks again for your help.
Well a proven donor is always better even more if you know how she reacted and what meds were used. The only thing you have to be careful of is her being a ginny pig for a new clinic who decide they want to try a NEW protocole when the old one worked. That's what my clinic did... and so it failled of course.
But if they can respect the proven (pregnancy) protocole and want to stick with it it's better and also you don't have to worry about her reacting bad to Lupron for example and her ending up in the hospital cause it was her first time if you know what I mean.
So proven means successful egg donation, meaning a nice amount of mature eggs. It doesn't mean pregnancy was achieved cause implantation is NOT the donor's fault... it just means successful eggs donated even if there are only a few eggs.
So if you can get someone who had a nice amount 13 + and the protocole worked go ahead and use that instead of a non proven one.
Of course you want to give the chance to a new donor but you never know the outcome and it's better to let someone else be the ginny pig so you don't pay for the clinic's mistakes...
Hope that helps.
Helene
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