cadre

So I searched and didn't quite find what I was looking for, hopefully this hasn't been discussed before.

I am seriously considering donating eggs and wanted to get some opinions on it. Have any of you done it? What was it like? Would you do it given the opportunity? Why or why not?

I would do this for two reasons: a) I do need the money, I wish that wasn't an incentive but as a college student, it is. and b) I would like to help a couple that can't have children on their own. It would be very hard for me not to be able to have kids one day and if I can help someone who is going through that I would like to.

Any thoughts? BTW, I see this as morally being A-okay. I'm happy to hear why someone would say it is not.

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genuinegirly

I haven't done it. The little that I have looked into it made me disinterested. It would pretty much eat up an entire summer, and it seemed at the time it would be easier to earn more money in the same amount of time doing something that I liked.

Here is an unbiased information page from Stanford school of medicine on the topic: The Medical Procedure of Egg Donation

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raeanna74

I have very briefly considered it. I get such migraines from my own hormones I can't imagine what the process would do to my body. If it wasn't such an involved process I would definitely do it for the money and to help someone out. I would have no moral objection to it.

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snowy

A friend looked it while in college as a way to pay for school, and shared the information with me as she was looking into the process. After hearing about the hormone treatments, I decided it wasn't something that interested me. I'm a little hesitant to do anything that might interfere with my future ability to produce children, and I'm also hesitant to try anything that throws my own really awesome hormonal balance out of whack.

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cadre

Here is what one of our male members had to add:
As for the responses so far:
Donating eggs is definitely time consuming but I'm hoping I can work around that okay. One of my biggest concerns is that there are not very many studies that look at the effect of all the medicines used. The few I can find are small (n<100) and they do not follow up after more than 20 years or so. It does seem like most patients do not have problems conceiving afterwards though.

I won't be doing this until after July so keep the responses coming!

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Mssmartypants

I was really interested in doing this because I am in graduate school. It's a long process. I went as far as filling out the application and had my ad up on the egg donor website.
Young healthy fertile females get between $5,000 and $10,000.
I didn't go through with it because it is extremely painful to take those injections before the procedure and you will not feel good after the procedure is over. I also have a problem injecting something into my body that is not natural.