HcG has remained the same

[2020lady]

Hello all,

I am new to the community and I think I have just come on here for a bit of support or advice, I’m hoping someone can help.

This is my first pregnancy, I found out last Friday from doing a positive pregnancy test. Everything seemed fine until Monday night when I had a few cramps in the evening and my lower back was sore. Tuesday morning I woke up, went to the loo and had spotting, brown, but only that once when I wiped. I experienced pain most of the day, lower back and cramping on one side going to my groin. It wasn’t horrendous pain, but enough to worry. In the evening I went to bed early, woke up to little pain. Again, same thing again when I went to the loo, I had brown spotting - but only the first wipe.

I called the doctors in the morning and she said as I was too early the EPU won’t see me, she said she will say my last period date was earlier so I met the 6 weeks criteria. I was only 5w1D.

I went to the EPU and they performed both US, and could not see anything. They agreed that it could be the dates which are wrong and was too early to tell. They diagnosed the it as a unknown location pregnancy. They then took my bloods and said come back in 2 days which is normal to see if there is an increase and so that they could estimate how far gone I am.

So I went back yesterday, the lady said my HcG was 245 and they hoped it would double. I had the call last night that my HcG level has remained the same, 48 hours later it is still 245.

The nurse said they were stumped, as it usually goes up or down, but they want to get me in again tomorrow for another test. I do not have any symptoms for etopic, but they can’t rule it out. I said to her, this means the likeness of this being not viable is high and she said that she doesn’t want to give me any hope but we’re wait for Sunday’s results and she expects the consultant will want to see me on Monday.

I am preparing for the worse, I am not being unrealistic but I have searched everywhere for anyone who has had the levels remain the same and I can’t find it anywhere. I was just wondering if anyone had any similar situations?

Sorry for the long rant, being so early it’s only be and my partner that know and he is quite down about it all as well, so I think you guys are getting the brunt of it all in my essay.

Any help would be appreciated

[Elhurst27]

@2020lady can I ask what the outcome was of this was, currently going through the same thing and having bloods done again tomorrow

[2020lady]

Hi Elhurst,

I’m sorry to hear you are going through this. Unfortunately it was not very good news for me, it turned out at my next scan they found it to be an ectopic pregnancy.

I hope you get good news when your bloods come tomorrow. Sending you hugs xx

[Elhurst27]

Thankyou so much for your reply, it's hard to find someone who's been through the same thing, I have that gut feeling it will end in a similar way but thankyou xx

[2020lady]

Hi Elhurst,

Just wanted to check in to say I’m thinking of you and I hope everything went well at your appt. X

[Elhurst27]

aww thankyou, I had an early scan which showed nothing in uterus 2 sets of bloods where levels stayed the same and the 3rd came back higher but still in the low 100s so am awaiting another scan next week so will see what happens, thankyou so much for asking x

[2020lady]

Oh I’m sorry to hear that they didn’t find anything 😢

Let me know how it goes next week, and I’m here if you need to chat about anything x

[Mulner88]

Hi @Elhurst27 , I have the same situation today. Got diagnosed with unknown pregnancy location and have to get bloods re done in 2 days. Can you please let me know how it goes for you?

[Elhurst27]

@Mulner88 I have a scan tomorrow morning so will let you know what happens, fingers crossed for you xx

[Mulner88]

@Elhurst27 thank you and you too. Best of luck xx

[Elhurst27]

unfortunately after scan this morning nothing could be seen in uterus and pregnancy isn't eptopic so will await blood results but I expect I will have the methotrexate injection in the next few days....
but good luck to you I hope it ends well xx

[2020lady]

I’m so sorry to hear that @elhurst27; I had the methotrexate as well. I had been hoping for some good news for you :(

[Elhurst27]

ahh did you how did you find it, I'm abit apprehensive xx

[2020lady]

I had heard a lot of horror stories before hand but if I am being honest, I just found myself to feel really fatigued. I was so hormonal so that added with the grief maybe may have made me less conscious of any effects I was having but I just remember feeling exhausted. As my ectopic was in one of my tubes, I was also paranoid that it could still rupture as the EPU said that it is a strong possibility, I just didn’t pay much attention to the methotrexate.

From what I remember, you don’t start to feel anything from the injections for a good few hours afterwards so you have enough time to get home and get comfy xx