M/c Hcg Level 141???

[Miss Chocolat]

Hi Everyone

I am new to this website, but thought someone may be able to help.

I had my first miscarriage (around 5 weeks) in May this year, after taking clomid. My HCG level went down very quickly to show a negative pregnancy result as soon as I started bleeding.

However, I am really confused the second time round, i have stopped bleeding but still feel very pregnant, I didn't feel like this at all last time!! My HCG level last Friday was 141, went back for another blood test today, and am still waiting on the result........ have been told to expect a phone call tommorrow.

I think I would have been around the 5 weeks mark again, but am really scared that it could be ectopic, my EPU said the HCG level was being monitored to exclude an ectopic pregnancy.

Has anyone else had this sort of HCG level and still felt really pregnant?

Hope someone can help

Louise xxx

 

[Omi]

Obviusly i am no expert but having had 2 mc and been on here a while/ done research for others on the subject i shall throw my 2 cents/pennies in on the subject.

a) yes, you can still have pg symptoms even after a mc starts or b) when your levels start to drop as you are considered pg until you reach 5 or under.

Also, im not gonna tell you you're not experiencing an ectopic because i simply dont know. I do however know, that its not unusual for numbers to fall slowly. Particularly if they're already under the 1000 mark. Its usually at that point, the 1000 mark( as plateuing there could be an indicator) they would start to worry- but even then you can take medication- if that was really the case, the ectopic i mean.

Anyone who's had a missed mc ( ive had two which is why im telling you) very well knows that although you might feel different (symptomwise) you can easily still feel symptoms because your body retains the pregnancy. I had no symptoms at the last mc,it all sort of just stopped, but i had nothing to compare to, you know..but several pg symptoms this time all the while the pg had stopped several days, weeks earlier.

However, i would like to re-iterate that even at your low level there is every hope things will progress normally and to please try to stay positive.

i wish you all the best and may the results come back as having fallen dramatically and that you will be back to your old self soon!!

, Omi xxx

ps, the reason i did the reasearch that a friend of mine on b&b had a similar situation and although she felt like a pin cushion in the end (had to go back every other day for bloodtests), it all resolved itself in the end. Although the scare and the low falling hcg was distressing, of course, xxxxx

 

[Miss Chocolat]

Hi

Thanks for your reply , I really appreciate it.

I'm sure everything will be okay, it just feels so different to last time, it has panicked me a bit.

I really hope you are 3rd time lucky ........... its the most awful thing in the world having a miscarriage, its just so difficult.

I will be up bright and early tommorrow to wait for my phone call and fingers crossed the levels will be falling, so it won't mean lots of visits to the hospital for more blood tests etc.

Good luck Louise xxx

 

[Omi]

I shall try to point my friemd in your driection as she would know better than me as she was right there, you know.

thanks for the kinds words, hun...

All the best to you, sweetheart!!! xxx

 

[Lazy Leo]

Hi hun, I'm the friend Omi was referring to :wave: Sorry to be introduced in such difficult and confusing circumstances though.

Let me make sure I understand the situation right, you had a m/c earlier in the year and you quite quickly got a negative on a HPT.

This is your second pregnancy? When did you get your first positive result? You seem to think you are about 5 weeks though so working from that - From what I remember at 5 weeks you should up in 4 figures of HCG. I was showing 585 on my first blood test at 6 weeks or so and deep down I knew it wasn't to be. There is always hope, but I think you should prepare yourself that this one maybe isn't to be either. I'm so sorry. But it doesn't mean it is eptopic. I was monitored heavily, blood tests every two days and two internal scans because my levels fell so slowly. It took 5 weeks for me to from 585 to a level that came up negative on a HPT. I stopped peeing on sticks because every time I did I wanted to hope and I knew it wasn't helping the situation. The hospital told me to be wary of any pain in my back or back passage (lovely huh!) and to go to A&E if I had a problem outwith EPAU hours. Eptopics are really quite uncommon in statistical terms so don't over-worry about this.

I wish I could say to you everything is going to be ok, but I don't want to give you false hope. When I was going through it I just wanted people to be honest with me and tell me what to expect. I hope what I've said helps you in some small way. Please feel free to PM me.

It's an awful experience, hurtful and harrowing, I hope you find your partner and friends supportive and everyone on bnb will be here for you as much as you need us.

 

[Miss Chocolat]

Hi

Thank you so much for your support I really appreciate it!! That must have been awful having to wait for 5 weeks for your levels to go down. I'm really sorry you had to go through that.

My first pregnancy ended in a very early mc and the levels went down very quickly. And I stopped feeling pregnant immediately.

This is my second pregnancy, I didn't realise I was pregnant at first this time, as the first test was negative and I thought it was just a very very early m/c or chemical pregnancy as I had some bleeding. But from my dates I should have been around 5/6 weeks now.......

Then I started bleeding more and more ..... and felt really faint and my blood pressure dropped right down low, I was admitted to A+E then to a gynae ward, just for precaution, but got let home as the hcg was only 141.

I have loads of back pain, like I did with my last m/c, but was told it was fine as long as it wasn't one sided pain.

My hubby is so lovely............ he is finding it difficult too....... we had to have fertility treatment, the first pregnancy was on clomid and this was from taking metformin.

We have both told ourselves to expect the worse, they have been very honest with us......... and like you I would rather it be that way.

We have our consultant appointment in Jan so will be able to talk to him about this then.......... still waiting on my hcg level that was done this morning.

Thank you to you both for all your help, I wish you both all the best .........

 

[Lazy Leo]

I hope everything settles down in time for Christmas and New Year and you still find the strength to enjoy yourselves. It can be so difficult to pick yourself up from this, and having gone through it twice it must be even more so. I hope you get some helpful responses in Jan.