SO my BW results came back yesterday afternoon and my progesterone was still holding steady at above 40, so this is really good, since they just want 20 or higher. However my HCG numbers were calculated differently this time and have made me really nervous. They can do the lab results two ways, either qualitative or quantitative. Apparently they suddenly decided to run my HCG labs as qualitative, which just tells you if it is above a certain number but it isn't exact. So all I know is that my HCG BW was some number above 4, 800 ........ so this makes me paranoid because my last HCG labs that were done were done with the exact number. They were 6259.1 the last time, so it is making me worry that my HCG numbers have dropped.
The nurse from my RE's office was telling me not to worry though because the US looked so great. Yesterday was the first time I saw a healthy heart beat and I could see that the baby had grown since last week's US. The baby went from looking like a little round pea ball to looking like a tiny gummy bear with a beautiful heart beat flickering away, so based on that how could my HCG numbers have dropped? It wouldn't make any sense at all if you think about it. I also don't know what the fertility clinic's range is for their HCG numbers, so it is above 4,800 but what is their cut off point? How high does that range go?
So my RE office gave me the option of discharging me to my OBGYN or redoing my labs and US again at 7 weeks, I would of just asked to be discharged, but with those crazy HCG results, it freaked me out so I decided to repeat my US and BW for this next Friday. There is always something to worry about and be paranoid in the first trimester! Uggh, one minute I am feeling relieved and the next I am getting super paranoid all over again! Of course my fear of a miscarriage again creeps into the back of my mind.
I was getting excited thinking of announcing my pregnancy now until those friggen HCG numbers were given to me. Now I am debating on when to announce, and back to wanting to wait, trying to figure out how to announce also.