Bugg
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Has anyone with lyme undergone this procedure? If so, can you tell me if there are any special considerations for a lyme patient who has already treated for years with abx and is now testing negative??
How did you feel when you went through this??? Costs??? Anyone recommend a great, compassionate doctor for this????
Thanks!!!
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joalo
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There is not yet a technology available for freezing human eggs. Only sperm and fertilized eggs (embryos) can be frozen.
To find out more about this you could check out the Resolve website or the American Society for Reproductive Medicine website.
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Someone close to me did that and found the doctors to be mainly after money with little compassion. Then it was such a difficult moral decision she had to make about unfreezing the embryos and hoping for a successful pregnancy. It was stressful for her to know she had some of her kids frozen in time so to speak.
I personally believe life begins at conception so I take freezing embryos very seriously.
I'm not even sure if that is what you meant?
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Are you putting a pregnancy off because you are worried about infecting the baby with Lyme?
How would the frozen embryo thing work....would you want it implanted back into you or into someone else? Because I would think you'd be better off just having the baby now, as opposed to later, and being on antibiotics. But it is ultimately your decision.
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sutherngrl
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Get over lyme, then have a baby!
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Hoosiers51
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ps---I was going on the assumption you are reaching the end of your childbearing years? Is that why you are considering freezing embryos?
That is why I recommended to just have a baby now. Because in my mind, waiting is not a good idea, if you are....say, 40 or above. I am not a doctor though.
But it would also depend upon how sick you are. In your post, you made it sound like you may be over Lyme/co's. So if you are reaching the end of childbearing years, and your Lyme has been hit as hard as possible and you may be in remission, why not just have the baby now?
I know the older the mother, the more at risk the baby is for disabilities like Downs Syndrome....but I'm not sure if it's because the eggs are older, or just because of the mother's age while carrying the baby. I think it's the former? So depending on the facts, you'll want to either have the baby or freeze the embryos soon.
I am NOT a doctor, and I really don't know what I am talking about, aside from the knowledge of an average person living in the world. I am just giving my "opinion." Have you asked your LLMD?
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sutherngrl
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Oops, I guess I just assumed you were younger. I don't know your age, and that would play into the info you recieve.
If you young, then just wait until you have been well for a year. I say that because if I was healthy for a year I would consider that a cure.
If you are older, then that complicates things.
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Bugg
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Sorry...yes, I meant embryos...I just wondered if someone on this board had frozen their embryos and knew of a good, lyme-literate fertility doctor for this...
....yes, I am older....
thanks
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