Hi everyone. I had a fresh IVF cycle a few years ago and have 3 year old daughter. Since then I had an FET that resulted in an ectopic and another FET that ended with an early miscarriage. We recently transferred our last frozen embryo and are scheduled for an ultrasound on Wednesday. My numbers are really low and doubling very slowly and the clinic has been quite discouraging. Here are my #s: 3w6d: 35 4w1d: 75 4w3d: 158 5w1d: 535 5w3d: 965 5w6d: 1448 My estradiol and progesterone are both in normal range. Anyone with any experience with a similar situation that might be able to encourage me? Or give me some good cold hard facts? I'm just so nervous about this ultrasound- having flashbacks to the one where we found out we had an ectopic pregnancy which was just awful. TIA
I was never too much of an expert on betas...but your numbers 4w1d - 5w1d seem really encouraging. The first draw seems really early and the doubling rate only seems to have slowed after 5w3d. I can think of at least 3-4 ladies off the bat who had borderline slow rising beta numbers and are about to have healthy babies.
Good luck tomorrow! If the embryo is measuring close to on track, I'd go off that moreso than beta numbers. I can't remember the hcg cut-off number, but I know after a certain point the doubling rate slows down.
Me 33, DH 37 -- TTC since Jan'12 -- Low AMH (0.78) & endo, SA w/ low motility IUI's 1-3 = BFN, IVF converted to IUI 4/13 = BFN IVF 1.2: 8R 6M 4F -- 2 blastocysts frozen, FET 8/15 = BFP!! Beta #s = 445;1,098; 9,545 -- EDD 5/2 -- Team Pink!
Me: 32, DH: 33 DS #1: April 2010 DS #2: July 2015 (preemie born at 31 weeks) - our little miracle conceived through ART - unexplained secondary infertility/adenomyosis
Re: FET followed by slow rise, low # hcg
Me 33, DH 37 -- TTC since Jan'12 -- Low AMH (0.78) & endo, SA w/ low motility
IUI's 1-3 = BFN, IVF converted to IUI 4/13 = BFN
IVF 1.2: 8R 6M 4F -- 2 blastocysts frozen, FET 8/15 = BFP!!
Beta #s = 445;1,098; 9,545 -- EDD 5/2 -- Team Pink!
DS #1: April 2010
DS #2: July 2015 (preemie born at 31 weeks) - our little miracle conceived through ART - unexplained secondary infertility/adenomyosis
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Me(31). DH (31)
DH SA normal count and motility, 1% morphology
Me .72 AMH, Fragile X premutation carrier
IVF #1 (6/12/13) BFN
IVF #2 (8/16/13) BFN
FET 10/4/13 Chemical
IVF #3 MC 5 weeks 5 days
IVF #4 DE 11/7 BFP, edd 7/28/15
All Welcome
Good luck to all of you ladies! Thank you for your support!
Me 33, DH 37 -- TTC since Jan'12 -- Low AMH (0.78) & endo, SA w/ low motility
IUI's 1-3 = BFN, IVF converted to IUI 4/13 = BFN
IVF 1.2: 8R 6M 4F -- 2 blastocysts frozen, FET 8/15 = BFP!!
Beta #s = 445;1,098; 9,545 -- EDD 5/2 -- Team Pink!