Absolutely! I had two HCG levels that didn’t even double and my fertility clinic pretty much told me to prepare for a miscarriage or ectopic. Well guess what? I’m 21 weeks pregnant now with a healthy baby.

Here are what my levels were:

11dpo: HCG 27
13dpo: HCG 58
17dpo: HCG 160
21dpo: HCG 797
25dpo: HCG 2,515

The rise from 13dpo to 17dpo was the most concerning to them. The nurse was acting like there was no way it wasn’t an ectopic or early loss. HCG continued to rise and had first ultrasound at 6 weeks 2 days and we saw fetal pole with heartbeat. Went weekly until 9 weeks with the fertility center and baby continued to grow appropriately with healthy heartbeat and like I said, I’m now 21 weeks with a healthy baby!

from my experience, and pouring over many cases online, beta needs to either rise quickly or be high. if it's starting low and not rising quickly then there is no chance.

as for your numbers - they are within normal. keep us posted.

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Anonymous wrote:How far along are you and what is your HCG number? If you have a healthy, on the high side number, probably ok. If your number was low or you are very early on, it may not be a good sign.

Sadly the most common answer is time. Waiting a week almost always give you the answer. Hang in there!

Thank you for this. They are doubling it's just very early and they rose so quickly in the first two draws I'm a little nervous to see them double slower on the third draw. I have a history of chemicals.

13 dpo- 84
16 dpo- 432
18 dpo- 912

These numbers look great OP! The doubling time starts to slow a little as the levels get higher.

Anonymous wrote:Can the doubling time change (slow down) and things still be ok?

Look it up in betabase. The rate of increase levels off

Anonymous wrote:Was the 18dpo 48 hours later? I think you need to be over 2000 between 5 and 6 weeks to see anything in ultrasound. I think it could go either way. What does your RE say?

It was. I think I just need to wait and see unfortunately. This was a spontaneous pregnancy, my RE said I could come in if I want but right now I'm just tracking the numbers. I'll do another draw tomorrow and if it's really not doubling as fast then I'll try to get an ultrasound next week. Thank you.

Was the 18dpo 48 hours later? I think you need to be over 2000 between 5 and 6 weeks to see anything in ultrasound. I think it could go either way. What does your RE say?

Anonymous wrote:How far along are you and what is your HCG number? If you have a healthy, on the high side number, probably ok. If your number was low or you are very early on, it may not be a good sign.

Sadly the most common answer is time. Waiting a week almost always give you the answer. Hang in there!

Thank you for this. They are doubling it's just very early and they rose so quickly in the first two draws I'm a little nervous to see them double slower on the third draw. I have a history of chemicals.

13 dpo- 84
16 dpo- 432
18 dpo- 912

How far along are you and what is your HCG number? If you have a healthy, on the high side number, probably ok. If your number was low or you are very early on, it may not be a good sign.

Sadly the most common answer is time. Waiting a week almost always give you the answer. Hang in there!

hCG levels vary enormously with each pregnancy and each individual, and each measurement is one snapshot in time, so yes, sometimes you don't get an exact doubling during the interval when you expect one.

Can the doubling time change (slow down) and things still be ok?