Beta went up to 6

MrsLaurenandDan · May 2014

Beta is up to 6. Waiting for a call from the RE. Doubling time of 82hrs. Fx

pettycrocker · May 2014

I want to wish you good luck, but realistically you should prepare yourself for the worst. These numbers are pretty ominous at this point. Are you taking progesterone? What is your Dr saying about these betas?

MrsLaurenandDan · May 2014

I haven't talked to them today. When it was 3 Monday and 4 Tuesday they told me not to get my hopes up. But I have a friend who started with a beta of 5 who is 20w. So while I know the odds aren't good, we've hits slim odds before. Usually on the bad side, so maybe we're due.

I also know that there is never a guaranty. We lost Noah at 20w after great betas. As long as the numbers go up, I'll hold on to hope.

pettycrocker · May 2014

MrsLaurenandDan said:

I haven't talked to them today. When it was 3 Monday and 4 Tuesday they told me not to get my hopes up. But I have a friend who started with a beta of 5 who is 20w. So while I know the odds aren't good, we've hits slim odds before. Usually on the bad side, so maybe we're due. I also know that there is never a guaranty. We lost Noah at 20w after great betas. As long as the numbers go up, I'll hold on to hope.

Absolutely. I just hope you don't end up benched several cycles because you're dragging out a non-viable pregnancy. Ykwim? My last IVF first beta was 7, I was ready to stop my progesterone THAT day, but they insisted I continue to use the meds and go for betas, my second draw tripled to 21, so I tried to be hopeful, eventually my betas went up to 250 (never dropped at all) and I was DXed with an ecptopic pregnancy of unknown location. I had to do a double shot of chemotherapy to resolve that, and now I've been benched from cycling since that all happened back in Jan! So frustrated, because of course I wanted to be pregnant, but since it wasn't viable I wish I could have just ended it after that first beta instead of dragging it out for weeks with more betas. The didn't do the U/S until I was 6wks pregnant, my betas didn't go back to 1 until 5wks after that.

I hope that is not the case for you, because it's so frustrating to be stuck in a loop and not even be able to try again! Good luck

pettycrocker · May 2014

P.S Your friend who had that low beta, did her betas double appropriately? That's usually the key factor. Your number can be super low, what matters is a good doubling time, and 82hr doubling is pretty ominous

Sorry.

MrsLaurenandDan · May 2014

Actually, she bled for 3 days, thought it was a m/c and then found out she was still pregnant at 11w.

And I'm on progesterone. And as my H pointed out, it was 3 Monday at 1pm and 6 Thursday at 10am so if you look at that it did double in under 72.

pettycrocker · May 2014

MrsLaurenandDan said:

Actually, she bled for 3 days, thought it was a m/c and then found out she was still pregnant at 11w. And I'm on progesterone. And as my H pointed out, it was 3 Monday at 1pm and 6 Thursday at 10am so if you look at that it did double in under 72.

Well it doesn't really work like that. I tried to convince myself the same thing, but the doubling has to happen from your most recent beta, that's how you get the accurate picture of what's happening. So you can't leave out the fact that you were at 4 at 13dpo and only at 6 today at 15dpo, and say that it doubled because it was a 3 at 12dpo, you're leaving out important information.

I'm just speaking to you as a person who's gone through a very similar situation, very recently. It's just easier to be realistic, even though we want it so bad, unfortunately we can't "will it to work"

MrsLaurenandDan · May 2014

I know. But either way I have to see it through. If not I'll always wonder.

Bananappeal145 · May 2014

I don't have any advice about this one way or the other but I wanted to let you know I'm thinking about you.

Clagore · May 2014

No new advice but you're in my thoughts and prayers.

Jodee37 · May 2014

I just want to hug you. I am with Mrs. Castillo here, I don't want you to suffer a long drawn out process. My ectopic first beta was 7. More than tripled to 25 in 48hrs. Then only to 50 in the next 72. But after that got all the way to 1000+ before i landed in the ER. My OB was very matter of fact that this was probably not a viable pgs rom the beginning and we tossed back and forth doing methotrexate, in the end he thought it might be viable but that wasn't my rainbow after all. and yes there are always miracles, I'm not saying give up hope because one should always hold onto hope. But I just want to protect your heart here. I was tortured for 3 weeks with the uncertainty and rollercoaster ride of emotions and I don't wish that on anyone. (((Hugs)))