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Infertile patients cannot afford to wait for treatment while their eggs get older.

Dr. Sherman Silber, Infertility Center of St. Louis, is offering video consultations for patients who need to plan now for their treatment while stay-at-home orders are in place. He is talking to and evaluating patients in their home to comply with social distancing measures.

Dr. Silber is discovering that patients actually prefer this method of telemedicine consultation over the conventional office visit. Patients have conveyed that “it is so much more convenient and less stressful” to have a telemedicine personal consultation than to take a day off from work to travel to the doctor’s office and sit with other nervous patients in the waiting room.

The COVID-19 pandemic is thus changing much of the way we will do things in the future, and for the better. “Our patients are surprisingly much happier with this approach. Of course, at some point we need to perform hands on treatment. But with this new manner of seeing patients, we can come to the right diagnosis and treatment plan for most patients more efficiently, quickly, and painlessly, with no loss of personal one-on-one communication.” This is a very welcome new era of telemedicine that has been forced on us by the current difficult times.

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Why I Froze My Eggs at 30: Jana’s Story at the Infertility Center of St. Louis (Part 1)

Episode 1 of this eight-part documentary series introduces Jana, a single 30-year-old project manager who opts for elective egg freezing at the Infertility Center of St. Louis under Dr. Sherman J. Silber. Speaking candidly, Jana explains that her decision came after months of online research, review-reading and late-night talks with friends who had either delayed motherhood or regretted missing their “biological window.” She concluded that age 30 offers the best combination of ovarian quality and personal readiness: old enough to have financial stability, young enough for high egg yield and optimal chromosomal integrity.

Jana walks viewers step-by-step through the process. The initial consultation covered ovarian-reserve testing, insurance coverage and a transparent cost outline. Dr. Silber’s team predicted that a single low-stimulation cycle would likely bank 15–20 mature oocytes—enough for a strong future pregnancy probability. Jana then began daily subcutaneous hormone injections, documenting mild bloating but no disruption to her 60-hour work week. Ultrasound monitoring every two days tracked follicle growth, and when most reached 18 mm, she triggered final maturation with an hCG shot.

The 15-minute retrieval took place under light IV sedation; Jana describes it as “less stressful than wisdom-tooth surgery.” Within 48 hours she was back at the gym, noting she “doesn’t notice the eggs gone.” All retrieved oocytes were vitrified and stored in the clinic’s FDA-approved, biometric cryovault—an added security layer that reassures her they cannot be lost or mislabeled.

Jana closes by addressing peers: among her college friend group, consensus is shifting toward proactive fertility preservation whenever finances or employer benefits permit. She emphasizes that egg freezing is not a guarantee but a “safety net” that grants psychological freedom to pursue career and relationships on her own timeline. The episode sets the stage for later installments that will cover storage, future thaw, fertilization and, ultimately, embryo transfer when Jana decides the time is right.