PGS testing on embryos

I don’t think any ins. Companies cover it! Ugh it’s such a hard decision, I agonized over it and went back and forth literally right up to the last day I had to decide. It’s such a personal decision and from what I’ve gathered, people are either like 100% into it, or don’t believe in it or trust in it etc. I would say have a conversation with your Dr. and do your own research on its accuracy and outcomes and then decide from there. I’m 32, I did two retrievals and ended up with a total of 8 embryos and did not test them. You will get mixed responses on here 50-50 for and against it probably!

Our insurance didn’t cover it either and although both of us really wanted to do it because we weren’t sure of the quality sperm we got from my husband, we decided to have a talk with our doctor about it since he’s the expert. He said that because we were both young (under 35) and very healthy other than our infertility issues, he didn’t feel it was necessary until after we had 2 failed FETs. We retrieved 29 eggs, 27 were mature, 19 fertilized, and we ended up getting 4AA embryos which we tested none of. I’m currently 10+6 weeks pregnant with our first transfer. PGS isn’t definite also, as they can collect a small chunk of bad cells from a perfectly good embryo but it’ll show it’s bad, and Vice versa. Good luck!

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Congrats to you and your husband! Thank you for the info.

I’m on the other side of the coin! Being that I was 38 when we did our retrieval’s I wanted to ensure I knew as much as possible going into a transfer and didn’t have time to waste transferring untested embryos. Due to my age, the risk of chromosomal issues goes up, so we opted to do the testing. Out of two retrieval’s we ended up with 10 embryos, 6 made it to day 5/6 and 5 ended up coming back normal with all the chromosomes. Our first highest graded embryo failed for an unknown reason, but I’m now 8w6d pregnant after a second transfer. I would recommend it to anyone over 35 for sure!

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I did. That was also part of our plan due to my age and low amh. Our dr recommended it and called it ‘batching.’ Anything we got from round 1 would be frozen on day 1, and then joined with batch 2 after the second retrieval to progress to day 5 all together. Then we only paid for PGS testing once, and had enough to keep for potential future babies. We didn’t have any insurance coverage so things definitely added up!

Congratulations! So you did two retrieval’s back to back? Yes I am 36 and I hate that it is more a money thing than anything. 😔

We did it even though our dr said we didn’t need to (28 and 29) but we figured we were already spending so much money (no insurance coverage at all) that we would rather do it for the sake of essentially doing all we could to try to have a family. We had 4 embabies and all 4 came back normal thankfully but didn’t want to have that “what if” if we hadn’t done it.

I’m 100% in favor of genetic testing!! We did PGD & PGS which most people don’t & it’s more expensive (it cost us $9,000). But in my opinion it was worth every single penny. We knew we wanted to test because we had a hereditary disease we were looking for & decided we might as well test for chromosomal abnormalities while we’re at it. We sent 20 off for testing & got back 6 that were unaffected by my diesease & chromosomally normal. Obviously that’s a bigger hit that a lot of people since 11 of my 20 embryos had my disease. But I’m only 25 & had 1/3 of my embryos come back with a chromosomal abnormality of some sort. WAY higher than I expected. It gave me a lot of peace of mind after our transfer knowing we had done everything we could.

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Congratulations 🎉 so many successes!

I also forgot to mention that our first transfer was successful. We’ll be 9 weeks on Sunday! That made me even more grateful we tested!

We are 35 and over and I’ve already had multiple miscarriages, one that we know was due to a chromosome abnormality so we opted to do the genetic testing.

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Thank you for the update! Are you going ahead with the normal highly graded embryo?

Update on mine- I found I had one embryo that 100% would have never made it. The other two, one is normal and highly graded and has a really good chance and the other is slightly abnormal and highly graded and will either (most likely) be a healthy baby or will just fail to become a pregnancy if it doesn’t correct itself. To me, those answers are worth it!

I’m 38 and we did it and I’m so glad we did. We only had 2 to test and just one was healthy. Had we not tested we would have been blissfuly unaware that the embryo awaiting the next transfer for a sibling would never have made it... the one healthy embryo we did have has now grown into my 10 week 4 day pregnancy 🥰

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Congrats to you!! Yes so that saved you from having to maybe do a second transfer.

good luck during your stims and retrieval!!! I don’t recall the amount of eggs they retrieved but we had 8 make it to blastocysts and we did send all 8 for genetic testing. My husband and I both did the “carrier” screening as well.

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Thank you! Injections just came in the mail 30 min ago. I know I did the blood test for genetics on me and my husband. But I know that is different from what chromosome abnormalities the embryo may have.