i am going to experience a chemical very soon. im 4 weeks 5 days but i've had a lot of spotting and had some other signs that just didnt give me a good feeling about this pregnancy. my beta today was 136 at 18dpo (progesterone 15). i know this is super low, and low anyways considering i got an early bfp. so now im just sitting here waiting. honestly i thought with a chemical that it would happen around the time of my period (which was due monday but i only had bright red spotting on this day). i thought that there wasnt a whole lot of waiting with a chemical preganncy but i guess i was flat wrong. i just want it over with. this was the first month my husband and i tried to conceive after our son so im trying to put things in perspective but it's kind of hard. i did need to gain weight and used clomid for my son - no big deal (although i went through a lot emotionally bc i didnt know what was wrong for awhile) and i worry that it's my stupid body that cant get it right.
for those of you that have had chemicals, how long did you have to wait? did your hcg #s have to be back down to 0 before it happened? im also worried that it might really hurt. i just have no idea what to expect.....
Re: impending chemical preg
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Big Hugs to you and I am so sorry. I had mc last Saturday and it lasted days, but the first two very very bad. Heavy and painful. I had my final ultrasound on day 4 and had nothing left in my ute..... I didnt want to go back in for labs so I was told if a pg test at home came back negative then ny levels were pretty much back to zero and where they started.
I hope this helps and I am truely sorry......Big Hugs!!!
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okay thanks : ) i was like geeze okay i guess i can be offical next week or something!
yeah i mean im doing okay. im trying to put things in perspective - it's still a loss but it was never truly real for me (like it was when i got pregnant with my son) bc i just knew there were things wrong from the start. the doctor's office nurses are very callous of course. - she wasnt even going to tell me anything was wrong - just to come in on monday to see if my numbers went up. the most frustrating part is wondering whether it is just a chromosome problem or if it's by body. and the other most frustrating part is the freaking waiting for it to happen. i dont want to look at my huge boobs bc it's a lie. i just want it over with. and of course im worried that the longer this goes on, that it might turn out to be ectopic or something....ugh
DD#1 9-4-04 *** DD#2 10-15-07
BFP#3 10-25-10 *EDD 7/1/11 * missed m/c @ 13w3d
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I hope it's okay for me to reply here, and if my presence in this thread offends anyone, I am truly sorry. But I just wanted to say that I'm so sorry you're going through this. I had a c/p last cycle in early December... our first ever BFP, the first time seeing "pregnant" on the digital without the word "not" in front of it, only to have the line fade to almost nil 2 days later, and "not" make itself present once more on my digital EPT. I was so sad and angry - such a cruel thing, to make pregnancy tests that are capable of detecting such tiny amounts of HCG that they can give you a positive even when the little ball of cells that was to become our baby was already gone.
In any event, my doctor was little to no help, but her np told me that as long as my post c/p period was pretty much "normal" in my own estimation, I didn't need to wait any length of time physically before TTC again. We got pg the next cycle and I'm very hopeful this one sticks, but I'll never be so wide-eyed and naive again as to know what it is like to NOT have the fear hanging over my head of a c/p or m/c.
Good luck to you!
BFP 1/18/11, EDD 10/1/11. Born at 37w5d on 9/15/11.
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im sorry you are going through this...