After posting on this board that I got a BFN on a HPT and mentioning it to one friend who knows about our IF, the friend and several of you ladies have asked when my beta is.
Is it weird that my RE doesn't require that? Is that common practice?
After my first failed IUI, I called to set up the appointments for round two and they never mentioned doing a beta. They just said that it would be dangerous to take more Clomid if there was a chance I could be PG, so they wanted me to take a HPT. Of course, I told them that I already had. Anyway, just wondering if this was common practice for Clomid IUIs.
Thanks!
Re: Beta Question
Honestly, I don't know if it is common or not but I certainly hope it. It is very odd to me. I don't understand why they wouldn't do one...if you were going to start another cycle with fertility meds and were pregnant that would obviously be very bad.
People can be pregnant and get - HPTs...I had a + HPT the night before my beta, and a - HPT the morning of my beta...which was positive. And so many women have bleeding and spotting in early pregnancy that for many it could pass as AF.
My clinic is super strict and always does betas...and I mean always. Like back in June when we were about to trigger for an IUI on an injects cycle and I was suddenly hospitalized...DH and I didn't have sex once that month and when I went back to the RE to get BCP, they made me do a beta before they'd write my Rx.
I'm glad my clinic is so strict about it because the one time they didn't check and someone would actually be pregnant, well, can you imagine?
TI, IUIs, IVF = c/ps and BFNs
My clinic only does betas for IVF, not IUI's. But I wish they did it for everybody because I did get pregnant and I didn't know I was (I had what I thought was my period, it lasted 5 days). Thankfully, I was on a rest cycle due to multiple cysts from the previous cycle. It ended up being an ectopic, however. But I can't imagine what would have happened if it had been a normal pregnancy and I had taken fertility meds.
Dx: LPD, underdeveloped follicles, blocked left tube
3 C/P, 1 BO, 1 Ectopic
IVF#1=BFN (3/11)
FET#1=BFP
If you're not doing a medicated cycle for the next cycle, my clinic only has you do an HPT. However, my clinic requires a negative beta on CD3 of any medicated cycle, as well as an ultrasound to check for cysts.
If you're not doing a medicated cycle this time, I wouldn't worry about it, but your RE should insist on it before starting clomid or injects.
Cautiously expecting our second little petri dish baby - stick, Baby, stick!
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