Many of our patients expect that the treatment will realize their dreams to become parents. Indeed, we have very high success rates at Scanfert Clinic. Nevertheless, there is a small risk, that the process will go not how we expect it. Fortunately, our professionalism helps to minimize all the risks and we rarely need to cancel the treatment. The treatment includes risks connected with hormone stimulation. Hormones used today are tolerable, however some people suffer from symptoms typical for menopause like mood changes and hot-flashes, as well as headaches and belly swelling. Some women feel some pain at the final stage of the medication process if there are many follicles. There is a also small chance of infection and bleeding when retrieving the eggs. The most serious possible risk is ovarian hyper stimulation, when the follicles become too large and fluid gathers in the abdomen. This can even need hospitalization. Usually in this case we stop at retrieving the eggs and freezing them for a later transfer. It's also important to mention that the research proved no ovarian or breast cancer risk for women. The treatment as well includes risks connected with fertilization and development of embryos. Sometimes we can’t collect the eggs because of premature ovulation or malfunction in the ovaries. Sometimes the collected eggs are immature, although this happens very rarely and in most cases our patients reach the treatment stage, where pregnancy is possible. The fertilization also may fail if the sperm is abnormal, but the eggs are mature, or there may be problems with sperm attaching to the egg, or sperm may be of low quality. Most of these problems could be solved with ICSI method. One more risk is that the egg (oocyte) doesn’t develop into an embryo or that it cleaves abnormally. Abnormal embryos can cause early miscarriages or fail to implant into the uterus.