Threatened Miscarriage, Low HCG Levels

[Blue eyes 81]

What? They think it's ectopic because you had spotting? What is up with doctors lately? Your numbers were SPECTACULAR for just over 4 weeks and they rose really well. That's more than doubling! Ectopics have lower rising hormones because they aren't growing where they should. The brown blood was probably implantation...I'm getting the runaround from my doctor too. She gave me a talking-to yesterday when she called with my numbers (which also are more than doubling. I was 38 at 3+6 and now I'm 236 at 4+3.) because I apparently didn't wait to get pg like the specialist ordered me to. He NEVER told me to wait. In fact, I never talked to him after my last pg was confirmed. His nurse called me and only if I called to leave a message. The u/s tech confirmed a blighted ovum and I m/c the next day. Figured I didn't need to talk to the dr anymore so I didn't. She also said in her opinion, it's going to end badly and she's disappointed. I told her we weren't TRYING, were in fact preventing pregnancy and it still happened but she was still annoyed. Don't know if I will stay with her anymore because I can't work with a doctor who won't support me.

sorry your doctor is being so horrible to you.

 

[dairymomma]

She's been a great doctor until my last few pregnancies. Now that I've calmed down, I'm wondering if part of it is that she's getting just as frustrated as I am because I can't stop having miscarriages even if I have had successful pregnancies in between and we have some partial answers but nothing concrete enough to 'fix' me. I'm trying to be understanding but it's like 'seriously? I'm pg. There's nothing I can do about it now so why rag on me about it.'

 

[dreamer22]

I went to a free clinic this morning for an ultrasound and the sonographer was able to find the gestational sac in my uterus! She couldn't see the heartbeat but she said its still really early (5w3d). She said that until she sees a heartbeat that ectopic can't be completely ruled out, but I feel like its unlikely considering that she saw a sac, that I haven't had bleeding, and that my hcg numbers had more than doubled in 48 hours. I have another ultrasound appt. in two weeks! Can't wait to see baby!

 

[detterose]

That's great news! The likelihood if it being ectopic is very slim, unless its a heterotopic pregnancy where there's a sac in the uterus but also one in the tubes. Its pretty rare but does happen.

Wishing you all the best for your next scan, keep us updated x

 

[Blue eyes 81]

Yay that is great news. Dont understand why they keep bringing up ectopic....like others have said I would think the likelyhood of that would be slim since your beta doubled nicely and that they saw a gestational sac in the proper place. Cant wait to hear about your next scan keep us posted.

 

[dreamer22]

The sonographer said its possible that there is a sac but that the baby implanted elsewhere. When I looked it up online, I saw that there can be a pseudosac in ectopic, but the statistics that I found said that that occurs in only 10-20 % of all ectopics. So out of 1% of all pregnancies that end up being ectopic, only 10-20 % of those ectopics have pseudosacs, and those sacs are often irregular shaped, and mine was perfectly round. She said she can't rule it out until she sees a heartbeat, and today all we could see was a sac. So now I get to worry for two weeks whether or not there is a baby in the sac! If this pregnancy results in a baby, then I am not having anymore kids!

 

[julesmw]

Great news!

 

[dairymomma]

Great news that they found the sac! I still don't get why they think ectopic but who knows with doctors these days...I have to call mine today for a followup blood test order but I'm afraid to for fear she's going to give me her "I told you so" spiel. Wish I could just call the lab myself and order it. You'd think with my history, I could do that. Maybe I should just become a doctor...Then I could order any testing I wanted whenever I wanted.

 

[dreamer22]

So I didn't make it to my 7w3d ultrasound because I had brown discharge this morning so I went to the ER, expecting the worse. After an ultrasound that wasn't in my view (so I had no idea if baby was there), some blood work, and a pelvic exam, the doctor told me that bloodwork is perfect, that there was no active bleeding during my pelvic exam, and that they were able to see baby WITH heartbeat on the ultrasound! I heard the heartbeat while I was in the ultrasound but wasn't sure if that was what it was because the sonographer didn't tell me anything or show me anything. Later when I asked about the noise the doc confirmed that's what I heard. I heard my sweet little bean! She said I had subchorionic hemorrhage which was probably causing the brown discharge but it is nothing to worry about. I am so relieved! Thank you lady's for supporting me through these stressful and alarming times! Can't wait to be out of this awful trimester!

 

[Blue eyes 81]

Yay.... so happy for you!

 

[detterose]

Awesome news!! Congrats on your healthy little bean, wishing you a H&H 9 months hun xx

 

[dairymomma]

Woohoo! So glad you found out your bean is bouncing around in there! And I have a history of subchorionic hematomas and have gone to term with DD despite having 2 during my first trimester. It's alarming to see blood but know that it's okay. I think there's a thread in the gestational complications forum on SCHs. (And to help put your mind at ease, my m/c where I had an SCH were almost all due to low progesterone NOT the hematoma.) With mine, they ordered biweekly ultrasounds (every other week, not twice a week) to track the size and make sure it was going away so I got to see my bean that much more.