Today's level is 198!! Talk about crazy! I have been bleeding like a stuck pig since Thursday. I have had to lay down every afternoon with a heating pad on my abdomen to help with the horrible cramps. And yet my hCG didn't just double, it "skyrocketed" (as the nurse put it) from 37 to 198! Wow!
This doesn't necessarily mean that it's a viable pregnancy, especially with the bleeding and cramping I am having. It could still be an ectopic pregnancy, particularly with the low starting numbers. There's also a chance that it's an incomplete miscarriage - where the miscarriage has started but there is still some pregnancy tissue in the uterus generating the hCG hormone.
Right now though, the numbers are more than doubling so there is hope. "Hope" - a wonderful thing and my middle name (thanks Mom & Dad for giving me an awesome middle name like that.) I'll have another blood draw on Thursday and once my levels reach 1500 or so, we can do an ultrasound to see if they can see a sac in the uterus or god forbid, see something ominous somewhere else - like a tube, ovary, etc. So we continue to hurry up and wait. Please wait along with us and join us in being cautiously optimistic!
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