Tuesday, November 20, 2007

hCG level info

I truly wish I was having an u/s today where you get an instant result rather than b/w. The other women on the ivf db only had two Betas and then the next week had an u/s. Well anyhow as I was searching for more hCG info I found a chart (I deleted some lines). First I find it interesting that at 14dpo it says the average is 48 in light of in 2005 they told me 100iu was what they look for at 14dpo. Anyhow my first Beta this time was at 17dpo and my repeat was 19dpo and my hCG was above the average in both cases. The chart only went to 24DPO and today I am 25DPO. However based on what they say for 24DPO it seems I want my hCG to be over 3,000? Well if it's even around 2,600 I think it will be fine.

*At 14 DPO, the average HCG level is 48 mIU/ml, with a typical range of 17-119 mIU/ml.
* At 17 DPO, the average HCG level is 132 mIU/ml, with a typical range of 17-429 mIU/ml.
* At 19 DPO, the average HCG level is 303 mIU/ml, with a typical range of 111-514 mIU/ml.
* At 24 DPO, the average HCG level is 2637 mIU/ml, with a typical range of 540-10,000 mIU/ml.

I didn't have much nausea at all yesterday just HUNGER. I did not bring enough food to work for lunch and dinner. Thankfully a friend of mine (a janitor) gave me some more food before my 5pm class as after I ate my oatmeal my stomach was literally still growling. I didn't have any cramping during the day until that 5pm class. By the time I got home the pain had increased more than on Sunday, but if I stayed in a seated position I was fine. I hope and pray this is just my uterus growing. I feel fine so far this morning except for being annoyed that I woke up at 4:30 and couldn't go back to sleep because yep my stomach was growling. I had even eaten some fruit before I went to bed to try to tide me over, and normally I don't eat anything that late at night. I feel tempted to ask for an u/s today, but if I had one then I couldn't make my 9:45 mtg in Harrisburg. I need to leave at 7am for my b/w and come right back home (RT plus the b/w will take about 1 hour) and then Paul and I will get in the car and drive to my mtg. He'll do some studying while I'm in the mtg and then at lunch time I'm going to leave the mtg early so we can drive to MD so I can see my sister, bil, and the KIDS!!!! I'll post my hCG results from their house this afternoon. Hoping and praying for HAPPY news to report.

1 comment:

Lucia said...

can't wait!!!! :-)