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My HCG has now risen by 80%... don't know what to think.
Gosh this is such a rollercoaster, I just don't know how to feel. One moment this pregnancy is failing, the next it is suddenly viable, the next it's failing, the next it's suddenly possibly viable again 
My story is, I have been trying for a year, I have no children and have had two early miscarriages in these 12 months.
My last LMP was 31st March, it wasn't a true period, in that, it was the bleed from a very early miscarriage (under 5 weeks), but I took it as the first day of my period as planned to try again straight away.
When, what I thought was 11 dpo came around (usually when I pick up a positive on a frer), I tested and I got a faint positive, it took 3 mins to show. I tested again on what I thought was 12 dpo and the frer was even lighter. I then tested with a cb digital and it was negative, this was on the day my period was due and I knew that if it wasn't positive - I had likely had another chemical. I then waited for my period but it didn't arrive, at around 4 days late, I tried with a cb digital again, it was negative, by this point I really should have had a positive test.
I waited until my period was about 10 days late and checked again - BOOM - strong positive. WTF, I freaked, worried it must be a slow growing ectopic. I went to EPAU and told them I had pain (sneaky, sneaky but I'm pretty sure they would have told me to go away otherwise), so I could get serial hcgs. That was last Weds. The first hcg was 438, then on Friday it went up 97% to 844 - yay - but not quite doubling so worried me - then sadly on Sunday it only went to 1228 '(45%, major turd), so we all worried about ectopic.
I had a scan yesterday and it appears there is the tiniest sac which would put me at under 5 weeks, there was no yolk sac or nuttin. Arghhh, and now I have been told my hcg yesterday was 2200 something, which means "a good rise" to them of 80%, but to me it screams WTF is going on.
So now I will have a scan next Tuesday, another week of limbo. It'll be so very cruel if it's just another miscarriage, the erratic rises don't fill me with hope 
I would like to say though - I think I must have ovulated 10 days later than I thought I did, and that those initial fading tests I had may have been from last month's chemical, this means, you CAN ovulate with a small amount of hcg in your body, maybe mine was under 10.
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I really think you were just completely off on your dates and that you did ovulate later than you thought. Just try to take it easy and stay positive. Sometimes our bodies just defy science and all medical explanation. I think after 3 hcg tests it's safe to say that there is indeed a peanut in there that is wanting to defy all the odds!
5 years ago
Thank you Mill, you have been a star, I haven't really told anyone about this except for the husband and my two best friends, but one is in Singaopore and is in no way baby inclined yet, the other got pregnant at the drop of a hat and so doesn't really understand. I don't want to bring them down with my cray cray, anxiety ridden ranting! I'm going to try and "forget it" for these next 6 days. Unfortunately I have a few frers knocking about and know I am going to use them in the next few days even though line progression deductions are a dodgy art at best! 
5 years ago • Edited • Post starter
Thankyou Shelly and Flamingo (love the name!), I guess we have the royal wedding over here to distract me this weeknend plus it’s super sunny so that will help. I think they are just going to go with the scans now, as by next week I should have shown progression. I think I’m glad because the hcgs have freaked me out! I’m worried this is following the path of my first miscarriage, where I started bleeding at ‘9 weeks’ but was only 6-7 weeks by scan. I had no hcgs or previous scans in that pregnancy, so hard to know if it would have been like this one! Xx
5 years ago • Post starter
Honestly, i struggled with the same exact problem for 2 years, 3 miscarriages within that span of time, i began to feel discouraged. After that i went everywhere for help until i found this https://tinyurl.com/yatb76x4 guide which is the root cause of me having 2 beautiful children today. I decided at a young age that I wanted to have a family of my own and often thought about how exciting being pregnant must be. I don’t know whether it was because it was something I really wanted, but I had a fear that I would not be able to get pregnant. And after i tried, to get preg; the first few times they all ended up in failure. With my first miscarriage being 6 weeks...... I then found a solution to my miscarriages after browsing through weeks worth of articles online, i thought it might help you with your situation as it did with mine, I hope the guide helps you out too! Stay Strong.
5 years ago
Mill, it was not meant to be. I think the constant ‘trying to convince myself’ in itself was telling e.g the poorly rising hcgs, the strange initial tests. On Friday I had a hush of clear liquid (TMI but we are all TMI here ha ha) and then a brown stained discharge. I had not really been feeling sickly either. On Saturday the brown discharge continued but it was more bloody and yesterday the true bleeding began. Only had severe cramps for half an hour thankfully. My scan was supposed to be later today but I will cancel it. Last week only showed a less than 5 weeks sac - which I knew was small for dates anyway. I’ll just test in a week to check my preg test is negative.
I’m quite relieved that it’s over as the limbo was worse and it just didn’t feel right. I am waiting to get a call back re: my private appointment with the recurrent miscarriage clinic.
I will update here after my first appointment xxx
5 years ago • Post starter
Yep flamingo, I’m going to see a recurrent miscarriage specialist. I did go for my scan today as I still had a strong positive preg test. Looks like everything has gone, the lining is down to 5mm, there’s a small ‘spec’ left in the uterus. I’ll ask them to do my hcg just to make sure there’s no lurking ectopic or tissue, but looks like I can finally put it behind me! Xx
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