Egg donation at the Institute of Life (IOLIFE) in Athens

Treatment: Egg Donation
Provider: Garavelas Medical Group
Date: Jun 2019

"Hi to all, I decided to tell my story to support and encourage the fear of all women about artificial fertilization, but above all donation of eggs.

I’m 43 and with my partner we’ve been looking for a couple of years to achieve a successful pregnancy. After many attempts with ovarian stimulation and targeted reports and having had spontaneous abortion due to the poor quality of my oocytes, we decided to resort to egg donation.

I contacted several Italian and foreign centers in countries such as France, Spain, Switzerland and the Czech Republic but prices were excessive for my finances. So I started looking for clinics in Greece. I contacted them all but the only one that I really trusted was the INSTITUTE OF LIFE (IOLIFE) in Athens.

I talked to Doctor ATHANASIOS GARAVELAS (who speaks Italian very well) who reassured me and encouraged me right away to clarify my doubts. I started this course, performing all the examinations required, I was assigned the 24-year exclusive donor who gave me 11 oocytes of which 7 fertilized and 6 became blastocyst. Day 1 November Dr. Garavelas transferred two blastocysts and after 13 days I had a positive Beta resultooooooooo !!!!

I thank Dr. Garavelas (who will continue to support and follow up to the third month of pregnancy) for his professionalism and availability (immediate response to my emails at any time for doubts, fears and dosage medications). Everyone at the clinic is good, embryologists, nurses and even his assistant for Italian couples, Kostantina. Prices are affordable and you really have a lot of professionalism.

And I thank my donor … … that thanks to her it was possible to realize my dream."

Ladyhope 43

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