POSSIBLE ECTOPIC?? Anyone had this?

I got a call from my dr this am and they told me my 1st set of HCG results were 28 (this is 15 dpo). I have to go back in tommorrow for another blood test. She said the numbers may be dropping or it could be a poss ectopic if there is only a slight incline. I am really worried. I have most of the symptoms of a normal pg. I am afraid if it is ectopic, it could hurt my fallopian tube. HAS ANYONE EVER HAD THIS LOW OF A LEVEL AT 15 DPO??? IF SO, WHAT WAS YOUR OUTCOME?

[JustME9]

My HCG was 17 on my first draw...my progesterone was 9.5..my friend that works at a fertility clinic said that in her opinion that was sign of a pregnancy already failed, or ectopic..my levels did double every 48 hours but unfortunately it did turn out to be ectopic.  BUT, i've heard of many slow starts..so don't give up hope! I don't want to discourage you..just share my experience.  HUGS!

[childatheart]

Luckily because it is so low if it is ectopic they will probably be able to resolve everything without harming your tubes.  I had an ectopic and ended up eligible for a shot to dissolve it instead of surgery.  But who knows.....hope for the best and keep your fingers crossed that this all turns out ok.

[capermom]

Good luck Steph, I hope everything turns out for you. I have no idea about etopic pregnancy. Keep my fingers crossed for you!
Take care,
Caper

[Kassimom]

due my low and slow to rise HCG's AND the presence of no sacin the uterus, my dr was alos suspicious of an ectopic pg. However, after waiting a few more days and another u/s revealed a tiny sac in there but with no fetal poles or heart beat. My dr reccomended a shot that dissolves very early ectopics to consider if it did indeed turn out that that is what we were facing. He did say that in every ectopic he has treated, there is severe pain on one side of the abdomen, especially when pressed in the area affected. I hope this answers most of your questions. I would get a second and third blood test AND an u/s before agreeing to shots or drugs to dissolve though.

[Vickielyn]

Hey Gang, I guess I am feeling a bit sad today.  I just finished a dose of clomid and had my day 21 progesterone test done and it was only 2.1.  My doctor's nurse said that it should have much higher if I had ovulated.  This pregnancy thing is really taking its toll on me, emotionally and physically.  My best friend who found out she was pregnant the same time I did is doing fine with her pregnancy and found out last Friday that she is having a girl, mind you she was extremely disapointed because it was not a boy, I was thinking be thankful that your child is living and healthy and this pregnancy is progressing.  When we found out we were pregnant we talked about baby names.  She called me yesterday, and told me that her husband really liked the name I had picked for me if I had a little girl and wants to name their little girl the name.  She asked if I would be angry - of course I told her no - she seemed so excited and she is best my friend, but to be perfectly honest a part of me felt really sad.  I can't help but to think every time I hear that name I will think of the precious angel that I lost but at the same token I want to always be there for her child like I know she would do for me....Anyway, all this stuff is so confusing about cervical mucus and day of ovulation, which day of my cycle I am on, etc......Please keep me in your prayers as I need them very much right now....
Thanks, Vickielyn

[mveebuff]

Vicki, thats very nice of you to tell your friend that it doesnt bother you for her to use the name you were thinking of, but I personally would be CRUSHED if my friend used the name I was going to use for my baby.  I dont think she would be upset if you told her that you thought about it and decided that it may hurt you alot to have her name her daughter that, you have every right to tell her that, and if she is your best friend Im sure she will understand!!  My best friend and I were pregnant at the same time, and I lost my baby at 9 weeks while she progressed perfectly and had a little girl...it was really hard on me, especially since it was my second m/c and my husband and I had been trying so hard to get pregnant and hers was a total unplanned pregnancy that she didnt know how to feel about...I just wanted to kill her when she complained about her pregnancy and knowing that she really wasnt happy about it, while all I wanted was a baby!  Anyway, think about talking to your friend, and my thoughts are with you!!

[kerstyn]

hey, my levels were very low in the beginning and went up slowly. Mine ended up being an ectopic but the dr did tell me that it is possible to start out slowly. unfortunately mine ended up being an ectopic and I had surgery last friday. the rreason for me ectopic was my tube was blocked. My dr reconstructed my tube and hopefully it will work right. So in my case my ectopic didnt damage my tube it was kinda oppposite.
you may just have a late bloomer. also, everyone says about the pain from an ectopic but i never had that. I did ahve bleeding and on one day thought i m/c but my pain was in the center,this really confused my doctor and made her think it was in the uterus, but an u/s showed nothing there. Good luck to you!!

[Siren]

Hi Steph -

Sorry to hear you are going through this.  Unfortunately, it sounds all too familiar for me.  Last year I had an ectopic pregnancy with levels that started out at 30 HCG but continued to rise.  I bled for about three weeks, and my levels continued to rise, very slowly.  They never got over 300.  U/S showed nothing, and I had three of them done.  Eventually, my numbers started to drop and I miscarried the ectopic naturally.  We considered surgery, however, since the pregnancy could not be found anywhere on the U/S they didn't know what to remove (if that makes any sense).  Anyway, my doctor said that in all his years of practice, he has never before seen an ectopic simply resolve itself through miscarriage.  It's very rare, and usually the ectopic must either be removed surgically or through a shot of methotrexate.  Take care, and good luck.  Be sure to get those levels monitored continuously until they are in a downward trend.

On another one, today would have been the day my baby would have been born, had it not been an ectopic pregnancy.  It's been a hard day, to say the least.  I asked my loved ones to take a moment during their day to think about the baby and 'what could have been'.  I also went out and bought some lilies to cheer myself up.  I hope this gets easier!!

[kerstyn]

last week when i had my u/s they couldnt find anything either. I had even thought that i had a m/c due to the clot and bleeding but after that my #'s still went up they got to like 800 something. I had to have surgery and they found the baby in my left tube. i guess my tube was really blocked from scar tissue. anyway i have had 3 m/c before and i had read that it is possible to m/c an ectopic. now i am wondering if that is why i awlays m/c because they never see a sac in the uterus. thank you for posting that becasue if that was what had happened to me, and i had my tube reconstructed then maybe if i do ge tpregnat again i wont m/c. your post gave me hope, ty

[Siren]

Hi Kerstyn:

I'm not sure how my post gave you hope... my ectopic ended up miscarrying, and I haven't been pregnant since then.  I just don't see how my story could inspire hope in you... but if that's what it did, great!  Ectopics are hard to go through, I've learned the hard way, and whenever (if ever) I get pregnant again, I'm sure it will be hard to put those doubts and fears behind me and just consider it to be "normal".  I don't know if there ever is a calmness to pregnancy after you've gone through an ectopic or a miscarriage.  It sort of changes your perspective, doesn't it?

[kerstyn]

You just made me have hope that maybe my m/c that i hav ehad were all ectopic and this last one i just had ended up being ectopic. I just had my left tube reconstructed and hopefully if i get pregnant again it will go thru. but i had still worried that i could again m/c. I was just saying that maybe my whole m/c problem was due to my blocked tube and maybe i will not only get pregnant again but be able to keep it. Does that make sense? I ahd heard tha tpeople can have an ectopic and m/c i guess now tha ti found out my problem i was hoping it had been the same problem previously and this would give me better hope. its ahrd to explain but i knwo what i am trying to say. sorry it sounds so confusing.

[blueizanr]

my partner had her first blood test on 4/21 with 117.  4/23 it was 190, she was retested today and it is 343.  The nurse said it is most likely ectopic or an abnormal pregnancy, but she just may be a slow starter right?  her uterus is tilted and I know that ever woman is different.  70% of women double their levels every 48 hours, the other 30% just a take another day or so and still have babies...She goes back again 04/28 for another blood test.  Pray that it isn't ectopic and that it is just a slow start to a great finish!!!

[blueizanr]

sorry...I meant it was 380 today (4/26)...I have been corrected :-)

[Essie4628]

I suffered an ectopic preg this past Feb.On 2-5-10 I found out I was preg and got excited but sooner that same day found out it was ectopic because the Dr that I see is very precise on early prevention and ran my Hcg levels and an ultra sound that same day and according to my last period I was about 4wks/5days.Well nothing was seen in my uterus and my hcg levels were 1432 which indicated i was alot further pregnant then what we thought. My dr said at wks my levels should have been between 400-500 for a normal pregnancy. So the next thing that night was that they did another Ultra sound to find where the baby was at and it turned out that it was in my left tube. One week later after i got an injection of metx. I ended getting an emergency ceserean to save my life.So if your levels are that low compared to my you probally are probally at the very early stages or it was a failed preg. but probally not in you tube..by the way it turned out that I was just about 3mths preg. and had gotten my period for 2 of those months and spotted with the last. and haven't got pregnant again so far.My husband and I just pray about it and are blessed that I'm still alive. Good luck and hope everything turns to be alright.

[KYChristian]

I have had two ectopic pregnancies. In the first one (in 1990) my right tube ruptured. I had actually gone to the doctor and told her that I was pretty sure that I was pregnant, but because I hadn't missed a period and the urine test was negative, she insisted that I was mistaken. Approx. two months later I was hospitalize and underwent emergency surgery to remove the fetus, right tube and ovary.

The second (in 1994) resulted in partial removal of my left tube. I recognized the symtoms (symptoms) and went to the doctor early. He took me seriously and did blood work over the following week, which confirmed my suspicions, and surgery was done. Because he left part of the tube, the doctor said there was a slight, but very slight, possibility that I might get pregnant again without fertility treatments which I wasn't willing to undergo, nor could I afford them.

Until that first pregnancy, I'd never heard of an ectopic pregnancy. Both doctors expressed to me that for a woman to have two was very rare. I didn't have access to the internet way back then, so I had no way of researching it and I'm sure I wouldn't have found the wealth of information that is available today, even if I'd had internet access. I've learned only recently that second ectopics are not rare, but that, in fact, if you've had one, you are at an increased risk for another. I am forty years old and have not conceived since 1994, but I have recently experienced some early pregnancy symptoms, which prompted me to begin doing research on pregnancy and subsequently led me to the topic of ectopic pregnancy for obvious reasons. I did do a home pregnancy test which was a definite negative, so perhaps they are just pre-menopausal symptoms. From what I can find out hormonal changes of menopause can cause many of the same symptoms and I haven't found any info about anyone having a third ectopic. I'm amazed at all the information I have found, though, as well as forums like this one. It helps to know that you are not the only one who has experienced something like this.