weird hcg?

beta hcg 8.1? Whoever heard of anything that low?

No symptoms yet, just brown spotting, so took one of the ultra-sensitive
pregnancy tests on second day of brown spotting; faint line even DH could
see; went to the lab a few hours later. Monday will tell. Actually with
hcg that low, if it's FALLING there shouldn't be a faint line at all by
tomorrow.

-- Dagny

"Dagny" wrote:
beta hcg 8.1? Whoever heard of anything that low?
No symptoms yet, just brown spotting, so took one of the ultra-sensitive
pregnancy tests on second day of brown spotting; faint line even DH could
see; went to the lab a few hours later. Monday will tell.

I used Clomid to get pregnant with DS and assumed I would need it
again, so I went to my family doctor for a prescription of that and
the (Provera?) stuff that causes a "period" when I stop taking it.
And then I insisted on a blood pregnancy test in order to be ultra
extra careful. I had zero reason to think I was pregnant.

When I called my doctor's lab to ask the results of the blood test,
the lab tech said she "didn't know" if I was pregnant. I was all,
like, "what the heck?!?!" Talk about crazy-making. :-)

Her problem was that my numbers weren't zero, but like the number you
quote above, it was so low that the she'd never seen anything like it
before. Her guide said below x meant not pregnant, above y meant
pregnant. My number (14? 11?) was between x and y. About 9 months
later I gave birth to a gorgeous, healthy little girl who is currently
eating a blueberry waffle and watching Blue's Clues.

So I'll tell you what they told me: "if you haven't had any red
bleeding, congratulations!!"

--
-- Vicki
Married DH May 21, 1995. Ima shel Sullen, born 11/16/99; Chatty, born
at
home 5/19/02, and Expected, "due" September 4, 2004.

Nah, I retook a urine test and the line was gone. No red bleeding yet, but
this one is not a going thing. That's OK. We're not actively trying.

Just good to know what's going on, is all.

Thanks for reading,
Dagny

"Dagny" wrote in message
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beta hcg 8.1? Whoever heard of anything that low?

No symptoms yet, just brown spotting, so took one of the ultra-sensitive
pregnancy tests on second day of brown spotting; faint line even DH could
see; went to the lab a few hours later. Monday will tell. Actually with
hcg that low, if it's FALLING there shouldn't be a faint line at all by
tomorrow.

-- Dagny



Actually, contrary to an earlier post, for now, it is a going thing, AFAIK.
Spotting almost completely stopped. 48 hour beta hcg 22. I don't know
whether to be ecstatic or terrified or bored. I think I'll take them in
turns.

-- Dagny
Mom to Meg, 10/03
and possibly EDD 1/19/05