Beta HCG levels

[Anonymous]

Today, at 16dpo, my HCG was a 291. I'm wondering if that is a normal number? I've had a miscarriage and several chemical pregnancies, so I'm extremely nervous. I have a repeat blood test in 48 hours.

[Anonymous]

Mine was 125 at 16dpo. Went to 400 at 18dpo. She's 11 years old now.

[Anonymous]

OP here: Thank you so much. I see so many people with such high betas at 16dpo. It scared me.

[Anonymous]

It's a good solid number for 16dpo. Have you looked at betabase.info yet? That's where I used to go to obsess over betas . Hugs and good luck to you.

[Anonymous]

Here OP:

http://www.betabase.info/chart/basic/single

You are literally right at the median. I've seen your posts on the infertility board - I know it's hard. I know this was a long road. As someone who has been there, and I know this feels impossible- try to focus on something else in between blood draws. If your betas double nicely, stop after the third one or you'll drive yourself crazy. And hopefully, when you make it that far, wait until at least 6 weeks for your first ultrasound because before that you'll make yourself crazy over whether you see a sac, fetal pole, heartbeat, etc.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

The number seems good to me, as long as it doubles properly.

I have had recurrent miscarriages and know how hard the waiting game is. This time it was helpful to me to do initial betas and then just wait it out (skipping RE monitoring earlier on) until my first OB appointment at 7 weeks. I found things to distract myself and tried as hard as possible not to obsess. I'm now almost 22 weeks.

Good luck OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The number seems good to me, as long as it doubles properly.

I have had recurrent miscarriages and know how hard the waiting game is. This time it was helpful to me to do initial betas and then just wait it out (skipping RE monitoring earlier on) until my first OB appointment at 7 weeks. I found things to distract myself and tried as hard as possible not to obsess. I'm now almost 22 weeks.

Good luck OP!

I'm the PP above you -my wife could have written your post. After 3 consecutive losses, she took this exact strategy. She's 17.5 weeks now - amnio is all clear. Good luck to you and OP.

[Anonymous]

OP, I've also seen your post on the IF board, and I'm rooting for you. It isn't so much the initial number (although yours is good), it is the doubling rate. I know the wait is hard (been there, done that), but just sit tight until you get that second beta.
Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Hi, I had 4 chemical pregnancies throughout many many rounds of IVF, and I am on my third actual pregnancy, all IVF.

Chemical pregnancies always had super low betas - initial beta like 30, 20, etc. Second beta didnt double.

my first DC was 292 at 14DPO (didnt get a 16DPO, got one a week later that time), but second DC was 103 at 14DPO and 225 at 16DPO. this current one was 191 at 14DPO and then 424 at 16DPO. (and I am almost 11 weeks now, FINGERS CROSSED sheesh, still nervous).

Not sure if this is helpful but there's clearly a wide range (my 3 pregnancies have ranged from 103 to 292 at 14DPO, and all were almost exactly double at 16DPO. so if yours was half of this 2 days ago, it was around 100, which is a pretty good beta. Let's see what the doubling number is.

GOOD LUCK! so stressful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I've also seen your post on the IF board, and I'm rooting for you. It isn't so much the initial number (although yours is good), it is the doubling rate. I know the wait is hard (been there, done that), but just sit tight until you get that second beta.
Good luck!

PP with the 4 chemical pregnancies- actually the initial number is highly indicative of success- there are numerous studies I can point to that shows that. chances of success with a lower initial HCG (there's a cut off in the studies usually) are WAY higher percentages of miscarriage/chemical pregnancies, and initial HCG over a certain # has much higher chance of live birth. I say this because I hated with all my chemicals when people told me "don't worry if your number is 23, all that matters is if it doubles." all my 23's type betas turned into non viable.

But yes, it also has to double.

[Anonymous]

It's about average. The doubling from the second beta will tell you a lot though. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I've also seen your post on the IF board, and I'm rooting for you. It isn't so much the initial number (although yours is good), it is the doubling rate. I know the wait is hard (been there, done that), but just sit tight until you get that second beta.
Good luck!

PP with the 4 chemical pregnancies- actually the initial number is highly indicative of success- there are numerous studies I can point to that shows that. chances of success with a lower initial HCG (there's a cut off in the studies usually) are WAY higher percentages of miscarriage/chemical pregnancies, and initial HCG over a certain # has much higher chance of live birth. I say this because I hated with all my chemicals when people told me "don't worry if your number is 23, all that matters is if it doubles." all my 23's type betas turned into non viable.

But yes, it also has to double.

PP here. Oh, no, maybe I wasn't very clear, but I didn't mean the initial number didn't matter at all. Just that, with her good first number, the doubling time would be more telling.
I'm sorry for your losses, and, yes, I agree. While I've heard of stories of women with initial betas <50 carrying a viable pregnancy, they are few and far between.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I've also seen your post on the IF board, and I'm rooting for you. It isn't so much the initial number (although yours is good), it is the doubling rate. I know the wait is hard (been there, done that), but just sit tight until you get that second beta.
Good luck!

PP with the 4 chemical pregnancies- actually the initial number is highly indicative of success- there are numerous studies I can point to that shows that. chances of success with a lower initial HCG (there's a cut off in the studies usually) are WAY higher percentages of miscarriage/chemical pregnancies, and initial HCG over a certain # has much higher chance of live birth. I say this because I hated with all my chemicals when people told me "don't worry if your number is 23, all that matters is if it doubles." all my 23's type betas turned into non viable.

But yes, it also has to double.

PP here. Oh, no, maybe I wasn't very clear, but I didn't mean the initial number didn't matter at all. Just that, with her good first number, the doubling time would be more telling.
I'm sorry for your losses, and, yes, I agree. While I've heard of stories of women with initial betas <50 carrying a viable pregnancy, they are few and far between.

We don't know what her first number was by IVF standards. If it was doubling, we can presume it was just under 100. That's good, and certainly over my IVF clinic's cut off for concern (they like over 70 on 14DPO), but not SUPER reassuring. Most of my IVF friends with viable pregnancies had first betas over 100, but it's so close, let's see how it doubles.

[Anonymous]

I forgot what mine was but mine were in the low category this preg...like the dr said it's looking shaky. They also didn't quite double each time but now I'm 17 weeks.

[Anonymous]

I just recently had my levels tested. At 16dpo-299, 18dpo-671.