I told my therapist that I was considering freezing my eggs, and she said she thought it was a good idea if it would alleviate some of the anxiety I felt about dating, and I said it would but it would also cause me a different kind of anxiety because it was so expensive in New York City โ thousands of dollars in tests, then thousands of dollars for the drugs to stimulate egg maturation, then thousands of dollars for the extraction of the eggs. All told I would be looking at close to $15,000 to buy myself a few years of reduced anxiety, plus $2,000 or so each year to keep them frozen.
I also had the idea that egg freezing was basically foolproof; Iโd get the eggs, and a couple years later, when I decided I was ready to have kids, Iโd just knock on the door of the olโ fertility clinic and theyโd stick some more needles in me and voilร , babies. It turns out, according to the fertility doctor I met with that egg freezing has only a 40% success rate. He must have seen the disappointed look on my face because he assured me that that was in fact at least double what it would be out in the wild, and if I waited a few more years, my fertility would drop precipitously.
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