HCG nightmare I experienced a miscarriage the day after Thanksgiving. I've been going for weekly blood draws to make…

My HCG was at 3 Dec 6th and I got a positive ovulation test Dec 13th. Good luck and baby dust!

Allanswife, at least they are going down now!

That’s awesome your hcg is at 3. Anything under 5 you’ll ovulate, so if you test for ovulation I would start. I ovulated 9 days later after my hcg was down.

*Update*

Hi ladies! I am thrilled to say my HCG came back at 3 today. I am being completely cleared at this point and do not have to continue my weekly blood draws! I'm ready to start trying for baby #4!

@penelope1278 he had no explanation except for there may still be a live baby floating around in my body somewhere. Where he doesn't know (didn't bother to look either). Even after he saw my numbers going up he said that I probably did have a miscarriage. The nurse said my numbers could of doubled between the MC and the followup and now they are going back down. Which makes no sense to me at all....

Yeah they should be going down. What did the dr have to say about them going up?

I had what I was told was a MC on 12/28/17 with levels of 1200. Went and had labs done yesterday 1/10/18 and levels were 1590 2 weeks later. Shouldn't my numbers go down not up??? Also been having sharp pains on my left side since the 28, which they didn't get to see the left ovary on the US they did on the 28 said something was blocking it.... hhhhmmm.

Who knows? I'm starting to think things will never get sorted and back to normal. Ugh

Ok. I’m just wondering if your ovulating, but if you still have hcg in your system it might show a false positive.

It ended 2 days before that particular blood draw

Was the period after the blood was taken?

I had what I assumed was a period last week of December. It lasted the normal length for me (4 days) and was the same amount of flow. So I really have no idea what is going on but it's starting to make me mad. ?

Wes. Dec 13th, my blood was 8.5, and I got a positive opk on Saturday the 16th.

I just re-read, and I had my miscarriage 2 days after yours, mine started on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and I’ve already ovulated, had af, and I think I’m going to ovulate again.

I'm going in again next Monday for more bloodwork. If its not back to where it should be, I'm asking for another internal ultrasound. Enough is enough.

I’ve only heard of it rising after a miscarriage from ectopic, or like Jessi’s case, stuff still left behind.

For me personally, mine never went up. They stopped testing after I reached 8.5, and said I was good. I ended up ovulating a couple of days later.

I spoke with my doctor today and she was not at all concerned. She said that such a small rise is completely normal and that HCG fluctuates occasionally. Does this sound right? Perhaps it fluctuates but after a miscarriage shouldn't it first reach base levels before doing anything strange?

Thanks ladies I will definitely update as soon as I have an answer. It was 6 days between draws. I suppose a chemical pregnancy is possible but it seems to slight a chance.

Please keep us updated. I had gone up from 34 on that Monday to 39 the day of the repeat. Such a small increase but it was crazy to hear and try to wrap my head around the fact it had been in my body so long that my body tried to grow it.

I was hoping you would see this Jessi and comment.

I definitely plan to talk to my doctor in the morning. The results were posted to my file, which I have access to through their website, after the office closed. Such a small rise is just baffling to me. I had a transvaginal ultrasound done about 3 weeks ago and they said I had passed everything. Like going through a miscarriage isn't stressful and terrible enough, it has to linger too. So sorry to hear about your experience pp! That sounds so awful!!

That was me. My hcg leveled off Oct 16th was 34 and Oct 30th was 34. Went to a different doctor and explained what was happening and she scheduled me am ultrasound and blood work. My hcg started going back up and I had retained products that we're trying to rebuild as a new pregnancy. Original d&c at 14 weeks Aug 24. Repeat d&c Nov 3rd. Dec 6th my hcg was at 3 and they said I was negative for pregnancy finally. Positive opk Dec 13th and Dec 28th started feeling like I was going into labor. Negative blood work and an ultrasound and they told me I had a blood clot that was stuck. Took Cytotec and 10 mins later a mass larger then a golf ball come out. This is 18 weeks post original d&c. Send it to the pathologist and it is retained products still. Call them and tell them you would like another blood draw to find out what's happening. Ask for an ultrasound. Negative blood work does not guarantee that you don't have retained products! I don't want what happened to me happening to anyone else ever!

Did your dr seem concerned with it going up again? There’s a user here that her body tried rebuilding the pregnancy, and she needed a second d&c.