Egg Freezing in India: Cost, Process & Travel Tips

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Egg Freezing in India: Cost, Process & Travel Tips

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    Fertility

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    GetWellGo Team

  • Updated on

    14-Aug-2025

Egg freezing in India

Egg freezing or, oocyte cryopreservation enables a female to store her eggs so that they can be used in future. It is also commonly selected to postpone pregnancy due to personal, professional or health motives (such as prior to chemotherapy), is also growing in popularity with transgender men and non-binary people undergoing fertility altering treatment.

The Process:

  • Ovarian Stimulation: This is done by the use of hormonal injections between ~10-14 days to induce egg production.
  • Egg Retrieval: Using a lightly invasive process, eggs are retrieved under sedation.
  • Vitrification (Flash-Freezing): eggs are flash frozen in order to prevent the destructive ice crystals.
  • Storage: Eggs can be stored long term in liquid nitrogen-information presently indicates the safety of several years.
  • Future Use: Once in place, eggs are defrosted, fertilized (with the use of ICS) and implanted as embryos with the help of IVF.

When Ideally to Freeze Eggs?

  • Experts point out that the best time is advisable to be between the ages of 25 and 35 years due to high quantity and quality of eggs.
  • Egg count and quality starts to decrease after the age of 35.

Factors Affecting Affordable egg freezing in India

The following is a breakdown of the determinants of affordability of egg freezing in India that include: medical, procedural and non-medical reasons that have an impact on the final cost:

Age & ovarian Reserve

  • Women who are younger (25-35) tend to need fewer stimulation medications since their ovarian reserve and egg quality is better; hence, the cost of drugs is lower.
  • Women having low AMH levels or those who cannot respond well to ovarian stimulation may require large doses or continues stimulation, and hence, it becomes expensive.

Cycles Needed

  • A single cycle can produce an average of 8-15 eggs, and the recommended 15-20 ready eggs is the optimal number of eggs to be stored giving them a good success rate in the future.
  • Without achieving the right amount of eggs in the first cycle, the other ones will increase expenditure.

Hormonal Medication Expense

  • The part of the final costs represents ovarian stimulation drugs (FSH, hCG, antagonists) between 30 and 50 percent.

Prices also depend on:

  • Name of the drug & drug type
  • Quantity of dosage (It can vary depending on age, weight and ovarian reserve)
  • It does not matter whether using the imported or generic drugs

Various Clinic Location and Repute

  • Metro cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore) are more expensive to have infrastructure and in many instances have better equipped labs.
  • The prices in tier- 2 cities could be cheaper but they might not have hi-tech vitrification equipment or skilled embryologists.
  • Quality assurance may be premium rates in high end internationally accredited centers.

Knowledge & Success Rate of Doctor

  • Higher prices are usually offered by fertility specialists with greater Rates of IVF.
  • Quality embryologists and state-of-the-art laboratory technology optimize survival of eggs through the freezing and thawing process-and it may be worth the premium.

Technology Used

Standardization against vitrification method, however the quality of:

  • Cryoprotectants
  • Oxygen storage tanks Liquid nitrogen
  • Monitoring systems
  • Affects viability and long term cost of eggs.
  • This may be augmented by the use of artificial intelligence to determine which embryo to select along with more in-depth monitoring (such as time-lapse incubators).

Storages Duration & Charges

  • The expense of annual storage fee is higher.
  • There are clinics that have multi-year offers at a reduced fee.
  • Longer storage time = the greater the cumulative cost.

Pre-Freezing Investigations

  • Tests: AMH, FSH, LH, estradiol, pre-exposure to infectious disease scans, ultrasound.
  • Charges differ with respect to the clinic and lab liaisons.

Egg freezing success rates India

The egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) success rates in India are better understood as follows, according to the limited data available on the subject and expert comments on the same:

India Specific Estimates of Success 

  • The pregnancy rate per cycle of frozen fertilized/eggs used in India is between 10-25 percent 
  • Aging as well as the quality of the egg and clinic capability determines the success rate of 15 to 30 percent per cycle. 
  • Nearly 90 per cent of the eggs melt,
  • Fertilisation set was 70 percent.
  • And ~45 of every hundred fertilized eggs progress to a successful pregnancy 

Probability of Success (Live Birth per Capita) by age

  • 18-25 yrs: 9099%
  • 25–30: 80%–90%
  • 30–35: 75%–85%
  • 35–40: 60%–65%
  • 40–45: 50%–60% 

Clinic Estimates & Age Thawed Egg Success (Centre for IVF)

IVF takes success to the level of live birth per thawed egg, age precised:

  • Under 35: 6-12 per cent
  • 35–37: 5%–10%
  • 38–40: 4%–8%
  • 41–42: 3%–6%

IVF and egg freezing in India

Purpose

  • Egg Freezing (Oocyte Cryopreservation): For preserving fertility to make use of in the future - useful with women who are delaying pregnancy due to career/personal reasons, before undergoing cancer therapy, and those women who have medical conditions that may impair their fertility.
  • IVF (In Vitro Fertilization): In order to conceive today, it is possible to have eggs fertilized with sperm in the laboratory and these fertilized eggs are moved to the uterus. This may involve infertility, blocked tubes in a woman, low sperm count, or prior procedures- that have not been successful.

Process

Egg Freezing

  • Stimulation of the ovaries (1014 days of hormonal injections).
  • Through a minor procedure under sedation.
  • Mature eggs frozen in liquid nitrogen via vitrification (or flash-freezing).
  • Freezing to future IVF.

IVF

  • Ovarian stimulation (analogous to egg freezing).
  • Egg retrieval.
  • Partner/ donor sperm fertilization (typically by ICSI).
  • Culture 3-5 days.
  • Embryo deposition into womb.
  • Pregnancy test ~14 days.

Relations between Them

  • Egg freezing is really the pre-half of IVF, but not fertilization or transfer.
  • After the patient is ready to have a child, the eggs are then defrosted and through IVF, they are already fertilized and implanted into the patient.

Egg freezing process in India

The following is a simple step by step explanation of how the egg freezing process works in India, that is, what is involved before, during and after the process, the time involved and some considerations to bear in mind.

Preliminary meeting & Hearing Evaluation

  • Purpose: See whether you qualify well.

Tests:

  • Blood: AMH ( ovarian reserve ), FSH, LH, Estradiol
  • Ultrasound: Antral follicle count ( AFC )
  • HIV screening Hepatitis B/C screening, syphilis, and thyroid profile

Discussion:

  • Your age, past medical diseases and fertility aspirations
  • Recommended number of the eggs to freeze
  • Estimate cost & storage alternatives
  • Time: 1 3 days

Ovarian stimulation (Hormone Injections)

  • Purpose: To get the ovaries to come up with a number of eggs as opposed to the 1 egg monthly.
  • Drug: Gonadotropins (FSH +/- LH) 10-14 days of self-injection.
  • Follow-up: follow-up with ultrasound + blood tests every 2-3 days to monitor follicle growth.
  • Side effects: Mild bloating, mood swings, breast tenderness (Occasionally Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome).
  • Time: ~ 2 weeks

Trigger Injection

  • Purpose: The mature eggs are fertilized before ovulation.
  • Considering the time of reaching max tolerability of follicles (1822 mm).
  • Typically, hCG or GnRH agonist, injection, 34-36 hours preceding retrieval.
  • Time: one day

Ovarian stimulation and Egg Retrieval (Oocyte Pickup)

Procedure:

  • Performed with lightly sedated individual anaesthesia.
  • Eggs are collected in a thin needle under transvaginal ultrasound guidance by a gentle aspiration of follicles.
  • Lasts 20-30 min.
  • Healing: You are home again after observation of 3-2 hours.
  • Hazards: Uncommon bleeding, infection, or the injury of the surrounding organs.
  • Time: 1 day

Assessment & Selection

  • Eggs that have been retrieved are analyzed with the help of a microscope.
  • The eggs to be frozen are only selected when they are mature (M II stage).

Vitrification (Flash-Freezing)

  • Fertilization takes place in mature frozen eggs that are frozen quickly at very low temperatures (~-196 o C) with cryoprotectants to avoid ice damages.
  • Replaceable in liquid nitrogen tanks and monitored at all times.
  • Shelf life of eggs is 10+ years (In India, storage is indefinite because the law already permits year to year).

Storage & Maintenance

  • Eggs last years with no known decline of performance with time.

Future Applications (Frozen eggs IVF)

In preparation to get pregnant:

  • Eggs get defrosted.
  • Conceived using the method of ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection).
  • The embryos are cultured within the timeframe between 3 5 days.
  • Embryo or embryos inserted in uterus.
  • Pregnancy test at ~14 days.

Best fertility specialists for egg freezing

Egg freezing services in India by GetWellGo

GetWellGo acts as a medical tourist facilitator and mostly their clients are international. They partner with top fertility centres in India to provide services such as IVF, fertility preservation (such as egg freezing), and any assistance thereof.

Do Egg Freezing Services Exist under GetWellGo?

The fertility services that are offered by GetWellGo do have the fertility preservation services, which generally contain fertility preservation services such as egg storage, as well as the egg freezing service.

They as well mediate:

  • IVF/ICSI treatment occurs when at least one parent is missing in the couple or when individual parts are damaged or unable to survive.
  • Sperm/egg harvesting
  • Embryo transfer
  • Diagnostics and therapeutics
  • Travelling, Lodgings and online insolvencies
  • Legal and administration support to traveling patients

Why Choose GetWellGo for Egg Freezing?

GetWellGo is regarded as a leading supplier of healthcare services. We help our foreign clients choose the best treatment locations that suit their needs both financially and medically.

We offer:

  • Complete transparency
  • Fair costs.
  • 24 hour availability.
  • Medical E-visas
  • Online consultation from recognized Indian experts.
  • Assistance in selecting India's top hospitals for Egg Freezing.
  • Expert gynaecologists with a strong track record of success
  • Assistance during and after the course of treatment.
  • Language Support
  • Travel and Accommodation Services
  • Case manager assigned to every patient to provide seamless support in and out of the hospital like appointment booking
  • Local SIM Cards
  • Currency Exchange
  • Arranging Patient’s local food

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