Need help--please respond!!

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Registered: 05-13-2003
Need help--please respond!!
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Thu, 08-07-2003 - 7:34pm
Okay, to start I was having pain in the area of my left ovary or fallopian tube on Sunday into Monday. Doctor couldn't find the problem when looking at my ovaries with u/s. Also tested my prog. level and it was 19.1. The pain stopped by about noon on Monday. Wednesday I took an HPT (EPT) and got a faint positive. I was bleeding very slightly which after the first trip to the bathroom has remained just a brown spot on the toilet paper. No pain accompanied this bleeding. Today I went back to the doctor and they said my HcG level is 16 (I am 11 DPO) and my progesterone is 14.3. The nurse asked me if I've ever had an ectopic pregnancy--which I haven't. She said that both numbers are very low but that I have to wait until Monday to be tested again. One more bit of info--I took another EPT this afternoon and couldn't see a line at all. Does this mean that my level was probably just higher yesterday and it's going down (miscarriage) today, not registering as a +HPT?

I am so scared that I am miscarrying. Can someone give me feedback about my numbers. I have had no pain at all since Monday. Spotting just started yesterday. It just kills me to have to wait until next Monday for another level check. Please help!!

Brandi



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Registered: 06-19-2003
Thu, 08-07-2003 - 7:45pm
Brandi,

Sorry but I don’t have a good answer for you. I also got a faint + last cycle. I went to my regular doctor because it was a weekend and got a blood test. It came up – so they didn’t run any of my hormone levels. From what I understand, there is little you can do but wait and see what the numbers say Monday. Maybe someone else will have a more information for you. (((((Hugs)))))

Melony

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Registered: 06-30-2003
Thu, 08-07-2003 - 8:35pm
Oh Brandi, that's exactly what happened with me last fall..but I never threw a + hpt or urine test at the ob/gyn's office and he wouldn't do a b/t on me...I had one day of light bleeding, one of spot then nothing for two weeks, got the + hpt, went back in to ob/gyn and threw another - urine test and he shooted me up with progesterone to start af...af never came, three weeks after that I found out I had a small 1/2 inch diameter cyst on my left ovary and then had moved on to a midwife. She tested me immediately for a possible ectopic pg- ovaries were fine and uteris lining very thick, hcg levels were 5, not pg, she told me that she thinks I was pg and whether my dr unintentially induced a m/c because of the progesterone (he gave me huge doses of it to start af without ever doing a b/t to confirm that I might be pg) or if I was losing it naturally I'd never know - it was too late. I never had any bad bleeding that I always heard about with a m/c...so I really thought that I was just annovulatory, but after seeing the midwife and she brought in an ob/gyn from her office in...they both said m/c can happen without any or hardly any bleeding. They said that within two months my cycles would be back to normal...I had two cycles following with this dark brown spotting for like 8 days, and then the next one was back to red flow for two or three days then spotting for about 4 or 5...then the next one pretty much completely back to normal...................sorry I know this was way tmi- but I just want you to know that you weren't imagining that bfp...and while your hcg levels are headed down indicating m/c..you don't have any bleeding... it could be ectopic, but I don't think so...most ectopic's aren't discovered till 6-8 weeks with a very definite + hpt in the beginning and severe pain and bleeding when the tube is or about to burst. I'm so sorry Sweetie...this totally sucks, but I'm glad you're finding out now that this is probably going to be a m/c than to go through what I did and never know. Huge huge ((((((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))))))))))) and ++++++++++++++++PV's (praying that your hcg test will be way higher!!!) LOLove, Connie