Hey hun. I'm really sorry you're having to deal with this. It's a crap situation to be in. It really is. When are they bringing you in for another test? They'll want to see if you hCG goes up or down. When they test your blood for pregnancy, they measure hCG. Under 5 is negative, 5-24 is inconclusive, and over 25 is pregnancy. Somewhere around 25-100 is where you start to get a positive on a pee test; it depends on the brand. When it is between 5 and 24, it means that your egg did get fertilized and that it is trying to implant. If it is healthy, it likely will, but if it is defective, it won't. You'll have to have more blood work to know for sure which way it goes.
I will be completely honest with you: An "inconclusive" hCG score is not a good thing to come across after about 14-21 dpo. If you ovulated when you think you did, you're around 37 dpo, so an inconclusive would almost definitely mean that implantation failed. However, you very well could have ovulated later than you think you did. If that's the case, who knows how far along you actually are. A score of 5-24 is totally normal between 4dpo and 12dpo. It can even be normal up until 21dpo for some women.
No matter which way it goes for you, you should take it as a positive sign. Having an inconclusive means that your eggs are able to be fertilized by your partners sperm- and that's great! The majority of pregnancies are lost before they're even detectable on a home pregnancy test, so it's a very normal occurrence. That's why it usually takes couples 3-6 months to conceive, most embryos just aren't viable!
My experience with low hCG and inconclusive results. (For anyone interested.)
I have issues with low hCG and my doctors don't know why. For me, it really can go either way. The first inconclusive I had, I had an hCG 16 at 12dpo. It only went up to 22 on 16dpo even though it should have been at least 48 by then. The nurse said I was going to lose the baby, but I didn't. At 7 weeks I saw a heartbeat. Sadly, I did miscarry him in the 10th week, but that was unlikely because of the pregnancy being bad. The doctors changed my meds a few days before my miscarriage and they think they changed them too quickly for my body to respond well. (I had gone through IVF.) That pregnancy likely would not have ended otherwise, and if I had conceived him naturally, I would have likely carried to term.
The next time I had an "inconclusive" was with an ectopic pregnancy. My hCG was 21 at 14dpo. The numbers went up normally and all went smoothly until my ultrasound at 6 weeks when they found the baby in my tube instead of my uterus. That baby had a heartbeat, too- and actually had the fastest rising numbers of any of my pregnancies. If it had implanted in the right place, it would have been fine. (IVF has a higher chance of ectopic, so it's something that comes with the territory.)
For my most recent "inconclusive", my hCG was only 5 at 14dpo, and 7 at 16dpo. Those are absolutely horrid numbers and I knew from the beginning that it wasn't going to stick. (For the record, I also had a chemical pregnancy with a confirmed positive of hCG 37 at 14 dpo, my best hCG so far, and it started dropping a few days later. hCG is a TERRIBLE predictor so early in the pregnancy if it is under 100.)
Let me know how things go.
