Rising hcg but no fetal pole... anyone BTDT?

[Anonymous]

Thanks guys- it gives me hope that this has happened to others. Mine is a little further along, even if I ovulated a few days later than expected I am at LEAST 6wk0days, if i ovulated when I thought I did then I'm 6w5d. But my doctor's US machine is also ancient- nothing like the high tech ones with the different colors, etc that they used in the ER with my ectopic pregnancies for example- so I'll just hope for now that that's the reason, perhaps, it wasn't visible. I guess no sense in getting too upset ahead of time. Just so freaking tired of failed pregnancies- i felt like, hooray, this one is FINALLY intrauterine- and now it's going to fail too.

[Anonymous]

any update? i’m on the same boat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:any update? i’m on the same boat

The thread is 5 years old so probably unlikely OP will return. You might have better luck starting a new thread with your numbers and experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to scare you unnecessarily, but with an HCG of 50,000 it's virtually inconceivable that you wouldn't see a HB if everything was normal and if your OB practice uses up to day transvaginal u/s equipment. In one NIH study of u/s technology, every patient with HCG of 10,800 had a visible HB. Now, if you're talking about an abdominal u/s or old equipment, possibly a different story... Although I'd still worry about the lack of a fetal pole post-6 weeks.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2660539

1989 study?? Technology has changed a lot in the past 35 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your uterus is tilted, it's very possible for it to not show yet.

This. 6w2d is very early. Don’t panic yet. “For today I am pregnant” was my motto in my second pregnancy, after spending my first being convinced it would end prematurely.