Egg Freezing in Thailand Your guide to cost, top specialists & hospitals
Your eggs are at their best right now. Freezing them keeps that advantage for whenever you are ready.
What Is Egg Freezing?
Also known as: Freeze Eggs · Oocyte Cryopreservation
Egg freezing is a fertility preservation procedure that stores your unfertilised eggs for future use by freezing them with vitrification, an ultra-rapid cooling method that stops ice crystals forming inside the cell. After a short course of hormone injections to mature several eggs, they are retrieved in a day procedure under light sedation and stored in liquid nitrogen. The eggs hold the quality they had on the day they were frozen, so freezing earlier usually means stronger results later. Most eggs survive the thaw with modern vitrification, and they keep for years without deteriorating.
You might be thinking about this because life has not lined up with the biology, and that is a reasonable thing to plan for. Freezing your eggs keeps a door open without deciding anything today. Whether you face medical treatment, are taking time, or simply want a backup, your specialist plans the approach around your age and ovarian reserve.
Honestly, egg freezing buys options, not a guarantee. No single cycle promises a pregnancy, and how many eggs you collect depends largely on your age and reserve. A fertility assessment beforehand gives you a realistic picture first.
It can address a range of concerns, including:
Am I a Good Candidate for Egg Freezing?
Egg freezing works best when started earlier rather than later, and specialists assess reserve, health, and expectations before treatment.
Egg quality and number decline with age, so timing is the single biggest factor in how well freezing works.
Ideally before 35: outcomes are strongest then; results hold up to around 38, and older patients can still benefit on individual assessment.
Reserve testing: a fertility assessment of AMH and antral follicle count sets realistic per-cycle expectations before you book.
Honest yield: a very low reserve means careful expectation-setting about how many eggs a cycle is likely to produce.
Stimulation and retrieval are medical procedures, so a few health factors shape safety and response.
General health: good candidates are in good overall health and fit for sedation during retrieval.
Weight: a BMI well above the healthy range can affect retrieval access, medication response, and sedation safety.
Tailored protocols: a previous episode of ovarian hyperstimulation needs a lower-dose, individualised plan.
Freezing preserves options; it does not guarantee a future baby, so understanding the odds matters.
A stay commitment: the cycle requires a 10 to 14 day stay in Thailand for stimulation and retrieval.
Numbers, not certainty: more eggs frozen improves the odds, but no single cycle is a guarantee.
Oncology timing: where preservation is tied to a cancer treatment start date, the window for stimulation may be tight.
Who is not suitable for egg freezing?
- Natural or established menopause, when the ovaries no longer respond to stimulation and eggs cannot be collected
- Premature ovarian insufficiency or ovarian failure (POI/POF), where too few follicles remain to stimulate
- No detectable antral follicles on scan (truly zero ovarian reserve), so there are no eggs to retrieve
Pricing
How Much Will Egg Freezing Cost in Thailand?
What egg freezing costs at accredited hospitals in Thailand, and what your final quote depends on.
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Typical ranges based on recent hospital quotes. Your exact price depends on the hospital and how complex your case is, and is confirmed at your teleconsultation.
The stimulation cycle
A short course of hormone injections matures several eggs at once, monitored by ultrasound scans and blood tests that time the egg retrieval.
| Ovarian stimulation and monitoring The stimulation phase and the monitoring that runs alongside it | $4,050 ฿138,000 |
Retrieval and freezing
The matured eggs are collected in a day procedure under light sedation, then frozen by ultra-rapid vitrification and stored in liquid nitrogen.
| Egg retrieval and freezing Day case Egg collection under sedation, then vitrification of the eggs collected | $3,700 ฿126,500 |
Added to the above where needed
| Storage, per vial per year Charged every year for as long as your eggs are kept, so it is a recurring cost rather than a one-off. Several vials is normal | $40 ฿1,300 |
Typically not included
- A second stimulation round if one does not bank enough eggs, which is charged at full price again
- Thawing, fertilisation by ICSI and embryo transfer when you come to use the eggs
- The fertility assessment, AMH testing and any medical clearance before the cycle begins
- Shipping your eggs to a clinic in another country
- Laboratory tests and investigations beyond the monitoring written into these packages, and consultant fees outside the treating fertility team
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Hospitals Trusted for Egg Freezing
From internationally accredited flagships to dedicated specialist hospitals, these are the kinds of facilities where international patients have this procedure.
BNH Hospital
Mid-sized hospital founded in 1898, known for women's health, orthopaedics, and spine care.
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MedPark Hospital
Purpose-built tertiary hospital opened in 2020, focused on complex cardiac, cancer, and transplant care.
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The complete guide to Egg Freezing in Thailand
Everything below is for readers who want the full detail: costs broken down, types and techniques, recovery, risks and safety, and planning your trip.
Egg Freezing Clinics in Thailand
Egg freezing is an embryology-intensive procedure. The clinic's vitrification expertise and laboratory environment matter most.
Leading Fertility Clinics in Bangkok
Our partner clinics operate dedicated embryology labs with modern vitrification equipment, controlled-environment storage, and embryologists specifically trained in oocyte cryopreservation. These labs handle high volumes of egg freezing cycles alongside IVF, which means the vitrification technique is well-practised and consistent.
Experienced Embryologists
The embryologist performing your vitrification is the most important person in your egg freezing cycle. Handling unfertilised eggs requires more delicacy than handling embryos. Eggs are more fragile and less forgiving of technique variation. Our partner clinics employ senior embryologists with specific oocyte vitrification experience and documented survival rates.
What to Look for in a Clinic
Ask for the clinic's post-thaw egg survival rate; modern vitrification should achieve consistently high survival. Confirm they use vitrification rather than slow freezing. Check the storage facility for 24-hour temperature monitoring, alarm systems, and backup liquid nitrogen supply. And confirm that long-term storage is available, with annual renewal and clear communication about your eggs' status.
Egg Freezing Results and Expectations
Egg freezing is an investment in future options. Here is what realistic expectations look like at different ages.
Expected Egg Yield by Age
Women under 35 with normal ovarian reserve typically produce 8–15 mature eggs per stimulation cycle. At 35–39, yields decrease to 5–10 on average. Over 40, yields drop further, often 3–6 eggs per cycle. These numbers determine how many cycles you may need to reach your target egg count. An AMH test and antral follicle count before treatment provide a personalised estimate.
How Many Eggs Should You Freeze?
It is estimated that a woman aged 35 or younger needs to store around 10 eggs for a reasonable chance of a baby, rising to about 20 eggs at age 38 and around 35 eggs at age 40.2 At ages 35–38, more eggs are needed for the same probability because egg quality declines. Over 38, the number needed increases further. Your specialist will set a personalised target based on your age, AMH, and family-building goals, and help you decide whether one or multiple cycles makes sense.
Egg Freezing Cost in Thailand
Average Cost of Egg Freezing
Our partner hospital does not sell egg freezing as one package, which is worth knowing before you start comparing quotes. It prices the stimulation cycle at ฿138,000 and the egg retrieval and freezing at ฿126,500, so one round comes to ฿264,500, roughly $7,800. Storage is charged separately every year afterwards. These figures are current to the end of 2026 and reflect one hospital rather than what egg freezing costs across Thailand.
Cost Breakdown
The ฿138,000 stimulation fee covers the stimulation phase and the serial scans and blood tests that track your response. The ฿126,500 retrieval and freezing fee covers the day procedure under sedation and the embryologist's vitrification of whatever eggs are collected. Storage is ฿1,300 per vial per year, and since your eggs are usually split across several vials, that is a recurring line rather than a rounding error over the years you may keep them. Stimulation medication is dosed to how your ovaries respond, so confirm how it appears in your own quote.
What Affects the Price?
The single biggest factor is whether one round banks enough eggs. Yield depends on your age and ovarian reserve, and a second round is charged at the same price again rather than at a discount, which effectively doubles the cost for women with lower reserve. Beyond that, the stimulation protocol and dose shape the medication component, and the number of monitoring visits follows your response. Storage compounds quietly, so factor in how many years you realistically expect to keep the eggs.
Thailand vs International Price Comparison
Be honest with yourself about the arithmetic here, because egg freezing is one of the treatments where the saving is thinner than people expect. One round is roughly $7,800. Equivalent treatment runs $7,000–$12,600 in the US, £5,600–£9,800 in the UK and A$6,200–A$11,200 in Australia, each quoted in its own currency. That puts a Thai round above the bottom of the US range rather than well below it. The saving is clear against the upper end of Western pricing and absent at the lower end, so get a quote in both places before you build a trip around the price. Annual storage in Thailand is genuinely low at ฿1,300 per vial per year, which matters more the longer you keep the eggs.
Alternatives to Egg Freezing
The closest alternative is embryo freezing, where eggs are fertilised with sperm at retrieval and the resulting embryos frozen instead of unfertilised eggs. Embryos tend to survive thawing and predict a live birth slightly more reliably than eggs, because fertilisation has already been confirmed. The catch is that you need sperm at the time of freezing, so it suits couples rather than someone planning ahead alone, and the embryos belong to both partners. In Thailand there is also a legal point: fertility treatment that creates embryos is restricted to legally married couples, whereas egg freezing for preservation is open to single women.
For medical cases, such as cancer treatment that cannot wait, ovarian tissue freezing is a different route that needs no stimulation and can sometimes be done at very short notice, but it is specialist, less widely available, and not something offered as elective planning. A simpler option for some women is to do nothing yet beyond a fertility assessment, an AMH test and antral follicle count that show your ovarian reserve, then monitor over time rather than freeze now. That is a reasonable choice when reserve is healthy and there is no time pressure, though it carries the risk that egg quality quietly declines while you wait.
Egg freezing is the right route when you want to preserve your own options without a partner, without committing to a particular future, and without the legal and shared-ownership questions that come with embryos. It locks in the egg quality you have today, which is the part of fertility that age affects most, and that is what the rest of this page covers.
Egg Freezing Approaches
The stimulation protocol determines how many eggs you collect and what the physical experience is like. Your specialist will match the approach to your ovarian reserve and health profile.
Conventional Stimulation Protocol
Injectable gonadotropins over 10–12 days stimulate the ovaries to produce multiple mature eggs. Regular monitoring tracks follicle growth. A trigger injection prepares eggs for retrieval. This is the most common approach and typically yields eight to fifteen eggs per cycle, the best chance of banking enough eggs in a single round.
- Suitable for most patients with normal ovarian reserve
- Typically yields 8–15 eggs per cycle
- Maximises the chance of banking enough eggs in one round
- Best for: women under 38 with normal AMH who want to freeze in a single cycle
Mild Stimulation Protocol
Lower medication doses, sometimes combined with oral fertility tablets like letrozole, produce fewer eggs per cycle but with a gentler physical experience. The risk of ovarian hyperstimulation is lower, and recovery is typically easier. May require more than one cycle to accumulate a sufficient number of frozen eggs.
- Reduced medication costs and fewer side effects
- Lower OHSS risk, suitable for patients at higher risk
- May require more than one cycle to bank enough eggs
- Best for: patients at risk of OHSS or who prefer a less intensive approach
Dual Stimulation (DuoStim)
DuoStim runs two stimulations in a single menstrual cycle, retrieving eggs first after the usual follicular-phase stimulation and then again from a second luteal-phase stimulation a few days later. Collecting from both phases banks more eggs in one trip rather than waiting weeks for a fresh cycle, which matters most when time or reserve is limited. It is more intensive than a single cycle but compresses two retrievals into one stay.
- Two retrievals in one menstrual cycle, no waiting for a second period
- Maximises egg yield for low responders or limited ovarian reserve
- Useful when a cancer treatment start date leaves a narrow window
- Best for: poor responders or fertility preservation under time pressure
Egg Freezing Techniques
The two critical steps are ovarian stimulation and vitrification. Both require precision: stimulation to mature enough eggs, and vitrification to preserve them without cellular damage.
Vitrification Process
Vitrification freezes eggs at extreme speed, cooling them to -196 degrees Celsius in milliseconds. This prevents ice crystal formation, which was the main problem with older slow-freezing methods and is what makes modern egg freezing clinically reliable. Each egg is individually loaded onto a labelled cryodevice and plunged into liquid nitrogen. The process is performed by trained embryologists in a controlled lab environment.
- Ultra-rapid cooling eliminates ice crystal damage to egg cells
- High post-thaw survival rates at leading Thai clinics
- Each egg individually labelled and tracked through storage
- Best for: all egg freezing patients; vitrification is the universal standard
Follicle Monitoring and Trigger Timing
Serial ultrasound scans and blood tests during stimulation track follicle growth and hormone levels. The trigger injection timing is calculated based on follicle sizes reaching 17–20mm. Getting this timing right determines how many eggs are mature at retrieval: too early and eggs are immature, too late and ovulation may occur before collection.
- Scans every two to three days track follicle development precisely
- Trigger injection timing is calibrated to individual follicle response
- Mature egg rate directly affects the number of viable frozen eggs
- Best for: all patients; monitoring quality is a key determinant of outcome
Egg Freezing Timeline
Days 1–10
Ovarian stimulation begins with daily injections that you self-administer using fine-gauge needles. Monitoring appointments every two to three days track follicle growth via ultrasound and blood tests. Your clinic adjusts medication doses based on how your ovaries respond. Side effects are typically mild: some bloating and tiredness.
Days 10–12
Once follicles reach 17–20mm, a trigger injection is given. Egg retrieval is scheduled 34–36 hours later. This is a short day procedure under light sedation lasting about 15–20 minutes. You rest at the clinic for a few hours before returning to your hotel.
Days 12–14
Recovery is straightforward. Most patients experience mild bloating or cramping that resolves within one to two days. Your embryology team confirms how many mature eggs were collected and successfully vitrified. You receive a full report before you leave Thailand.
After Departure
Your frozen eggs are stored securely in liquid nitrogen at the clinic. Storage is charged every year, ฿1,300 per vial, and your eggs are normally split across several vials. When you are ready, the eggs are thawed, fertilised via ICSI, and the resulting embryo transferred, either in Thailand or shipped to a clinic closer to home.
When Can You Fly After Egg Freezing?
Most patients can fly one to two days after egg retrieval. Post-retrieval bloating typically resolves within a day or two. There are no restrictions on cabin pressure or altitude. Many women plan their departure for one to two days after retrieval, once they have received their egg count and vitrification confirmation.
Physical Recovery
Recovery is straightforward. Mild bloating and cramping after retrieval resolve within one to two days. Your next menstrual period will arrive on its normal schedule. Heavy exercise should wait for about a week, but light activity is fine immediately. Avoid sexual intercourse for about a week after retrieval, because the ovaries are still enlarged and the puncture sites are healing, which also lowers the small risk of torsion or bleeding. Most women describe the overall experience as manageable.
When Would You Use Your Frozen Eggs?
When you are ready to conceive, your eggs are thawed, fertilised with sperm using ICSI, and the resulting embryo transferred to your uterus. This can happen months or years after freezing. The process can be done in Thailand or, in some cases, eggs can be shipped to a clinic in your home country. Live birth rates depend on the age at which eggs were frozen, not the age at which they are used.
Anaesthesia for Egg Retrieval
Egg freezing involves very little anaesthesia. The stimulation injections, the monitoring scans, and the blood tests need none at all. The only step that requires it is the egg retrieval itself, a short day procedure of around 15–20 minutes, which is done under light sedation so you stay comfortable throughout.
Light sedation means you are deeply relaxed and feel nothing during the retrieval, but you are not put fully under as you would be for major surgery. A doctor monitors you the whole time, and most women drift through it and wake within a few minutes once it is over, resting at the clinic for a couple of hours before heading back to your hotel. Your specialist confirms the exact approach based on your health and any sedation considerations, such as a higher BMI, which are reviewed beforehand.
Before retrieval you have a brief pre-procedure check so the team can plan your sedation safely. You will not feel the retrieval as it happens, and afterwards the most common sensation is mild bloating or cramping rather than real pain, which usually settles within a day or two and is easily managed with simple pain relief.
Risks and Safety of Egg Freezing
Egg freezing carries the same risks as the stimulation and retrieval phase of IVF. The procedure is well-established and serious complications are uncommon at accredited clinics.
- Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, usually mild, with severe cases rare under monitored protocols3,2
- Mild bloating, cramping, or discomfort during stimulation
- Small risk of bleeding or infection from the retrieval procedure2
- Ovarian torsion, a rare twisting of an enlarged, stimulated ovary that causes sudden severe one-sided pelvic pain and is a surgical emergency
Stimulation protocols are adjusted to your ovarian reserve to minimise OHSS risk. Thai clinics follow international guidelines from ESHRE and ASRM for safe medication dosing and patient monitoring. Every risk factor is assessed before treatment begins.
Is Egg Freezing Safe in Thailand?
Yes. Egg freezing uses the same stimulation and retrieval process as IVF, which is performed millions of times worldwide each year. Thai clinics offering egg freezing are licensed fertility centres with accredited embryology labs, trained embryologists, and modern vitrification equipment. The procedure has been standard practice at these clinics for over a decade.
How to Maximise Your Egg Yield
The number of eggs collected depends primarily on your ovarian reserve (measured by AMH and antral follicle count) and your age. Starting before 35 gives the best yield and egg quality. Taking supplements like CoQ10 and folic acid in the months before treatment may support egg quality, though the evidence is modest. Stopping smoking and limiting alcohol are well-supported recommendations.
What Are the Success Rates When Eggs Are Used?
For eggs frozen before age 35, live birth rates per transfer can reach around 40–50% at high-volume clinics with strong vitrification programmes, though for the same age cohort frozen-egg IVF tends to run modestly lower than fresh IVF. Rates decline for eggs frozen at older ages because egg quality is fixed at the time of freezing. As a general guide, a woman aged 35 or younger needs around 10 stored eggs for a reasonable chance of a baby, with more needed at older ages. Your specialist will set personalised targets based on your assessment.
Planning Your Trip to Thailand for Egg Freezing
Egg freezing takes 10–14 days. Many women combine it with a short holiday or working trip to make the most of their time in Bangkok.
How Long to Stay in Thailand
Plan for 10–14 days. Stimulation begins on day two to three of your menstrual period. Monitoring appointments every two to three days require about 30 minutes each. Egg retrieval happens around day 10–12. You can fly home one to two days after retrieval. Between appointments, your time is your own.
What Is Included in Your Treatment
The treatment quote covers specialist consultations, stimulation monitoring, egg retrieval under sedation and vitrification of your eggs, priced as two parts rather than one. Storage is charged annually per vial on top, and stimulation medication is dosed to your response, so confirm how both appear in your quote. Your coordinator handles scheduling and communication throughout.
Combining Egg Freezing with Other Assessments
Many women combine egg freezing with a comprehensive fertility assessment during the same trip. Hormone testing, AMH measurement, and ultrasound can all be completed before your stimulation cycle begins, giving you a complete picture of your reproductive health alongside the practical step of preserving your eggs.
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