Glad to hear it Newbie! So nice to have DH home I'm sure.
AFM, anxiety here. I'm 5+2 today. Betas last week were great, >2000 on 4+5 and >4000 on 5+0, so just over doubling every 48 (I know it slows a little once they get high). However, after getting my second beta results yesterday, I replied to my doc because I thought they were going to check my progesterone, too. The on call doc when I ordered the labs didn't want to do it because he said low P is generally a sign of a unviable pregnancy, not a cause (unless you have a lot of history of course). But because my chart has a red flag on top that says I have an endocrinology PhD, they basically do whatever I ask them to so that I'll leave them alone (they don't need to know that I study hormones in bird brains, not human reproductive systems
Anyway, my doc replied late yesterday and said they did run it and it was 13.2 and that it was normal and she'd see me soon. At 5:30 on a Friday.
I saw 13.2 and thought- oh crap. Baby is growing (hence the high betas), but my body isn't keeping up. With my daughter my progesterone was 21 on 11dpo. My previous doc said that anything under 15 was a concern. My best friend is 11 weeks and at 4 and 5 weeks her doctor gave her supplements to get her over 20. So now I'm feeling like my body is going to screw this up again. My first pregnancy was only my second month off BC, we saw a heart beat and then severe cramping started and it was gone. I ALWAYS questioned whether my body wasn't up for the task of producing enough progesterone so soon after being on BC. This time, I was going to give myself 6-9mos off pills before trying. I went off on January 6th, ovulated just days after that and got pregnant March 10th (from dtd 4 days earlier! (apparently NFP won't work for us)), so barely two months, though it was my 3rd ovulation off pills.
I feel like my nausea isn't nearly what it was a week ago (though I also wonder if I have gotten used to feeling a little off), and my uterus feels heavy (not like regular bloat), my chest doesn't hurt too bad this time, and raged like an SOB with my daughter, but perhaps after BFing for 17mos my boobs are like, "oh, you want us to be massive and swollen? Yeah we can do that..."
Anyway, I lost it a bit last night feeling like this is doomed. No spotting, no cramping (mild aches, but those don't concern me). I did reply to my doc (I know she won't see it til Monday), just asking for a little patience because my MC was so hard on my husband and I. I've only met her once, we just moved across state lines last summer, so I feel like I have no rapport with her, and she probably just thinks I'm psycho.
I asked for some clarification as to the reason different docs expect such different progesterone levels and to also explain that I understand that many pregnancies just aren't viable and bolstering them with exogenous progesterone is just delaying the inevitable. But I also asked if we could do another draw at 6 weeks (on Thursday) to see if numbers are increasing, and if HCG is and P isn't, that we consider supplementing given the BC stuff I mentioned above. I'm sure I'll probably be black-listed from the practice, but I promised that I'm really not usually a high-maintenance patient and that once I got past my 8wk US last time with my daughter I never pestered my doc again, just routine appts.
Anyway, thank you ladies so much for allowing me to rant. I need to work right now and prepare lectures for Monday, but I feel like I can't move on from this without getting it out. Today I feel nauseous and my boobs feel huge, so I thank God for that, and pray that it continues. I never thought I could appreciate an online forum as much as I do. You women are amazing and I am in awe of your perseverance. For that reason, I thank God for you as well. If you can spare a moment of your prayers for me, it would mean the world.
