HCG Levels

kates_mommy

Hello! I have a question for you first tri'ers. I have a friend who just found out she's pregnant and shes right about 5 weeks. She had some dark brown spotting today which her OB said was normal but they did an quantitative HCG and it was 7700. All the lab told her was thats fine. Isn't that really high? I've googled it and that seems to be on the high end of normal. Twins AND tripletts run in her family so could this high HCG level be an indication of multiples? We were just curious of others experiences. I can't remember what mine were. Thanks!

myst33

Mine were 16,800 at 5 weeks 1 day.  The u/s revealed 1 gestational sac and 1 yolk sac at that point.

gille01

HCG levels vary so much in whats the 'norm' amount. My numbers were that of twins and triplets and both run in the family. I'm only having one so you can't always go by the numbers. An ultrasound is really the only way to figure it out.

SarahTx5701

some people just have high numbers.

My was almost 6000 at 5 weeks and I my grandmother and mother both have twins. Just one baby for me!

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mek10976

The HCG level range for each week is really huge.  I just had mine checked on Friday and my level was 71,000 at 6wks, which is in the normal range.  I copied this chart from a website. 

3 weeks: 5 - 50 mIU/ml 4 weeks: 5 - 426 mIU/ml 5 weeks: 18 - 7,340 mIU/ml 6 weeks: 1,080 - 56,500 mIU/ml 7 - 8 weeks: 7, 650 - 229,000 mIU/ml 9 - 12 weeks: 25,700 - 288,000 mIU/ml 13 - 16 weeks: 13,300 - 254,000 mIU/ml 17 - 24 weeks: 4,060 - 165,400 mIU/ml 25 - 40 weeks: 3,640 - 117,000 mIU/ml

jesslw

I too had some brownish spotting at 5 weeks and went to the ER for an ultrasound and some blood work to ease my worried mind. All turned out to be fine, I was 5 weeks 2 days and my hCG level was 9000. I immediately went home and researched '5 weeks hcg 9000' and found sites saying that was too high, something was wrong or I was having multiples. From what I can understand, the hCG levels charts you see are just estimates and have a very very wide range of normal, so in my opinion, what's an extra thousand or two? lol Since multiples run in your friend's family, it is a possibility she could have high levels because she's having twins, triplets, etc but it isn't a definite. Only ultrasounds can tell how many babies you're having. Even with my hCG in the 9000's at 5 weeks 2 days, ultrasound showed for sure one baby yesterday at 7 weeks 1 day.