Pregnancy test with GP

[coulditbee1]

I see many posts where people have had pregnancies confirmed by their GP, and given their hcg level. Is this normal practice?

It probably depends where you are but I didn't get this no.

I've never had this (currently pregnant with DC4) but I have had early scans with my first two and with a MC, just at my GP surgery, which isn't normal either. There just happened to be a GP who seemed to enjoy scanning you 😂 two of them I didn't even go in for anything pregnancy related.

it no longer necessary as home pregnancy tests are now so accurate. It might be necessary for certain signs or symptoms, but not just for confirmation.
It isn’t always clear when people post how long ago they were pregnant, in which country, with only nhs care, whether they had ivf etc. so this could skew your impression.

I only had this with my third, was a urine sample not blood. Bit odd, did they have a spate of women pretending to be pregnant . I bloody miss that surgery, probably gone downhill with the rest of them.

@Featuredcreature omg really?! Did they think they wouldn't get found out? How odd!

Where I live in Canada it’s quite typical to get bloodwork done to confirm a pregnancy, but also to check baseline thyroid function and iron levels early in the pregnancy. That always made a fair bit of sense to me.

It’s pretty common in lots of countries but not the UK no… (cost saving I guess)… even with a past history of MCs (I can attest), or going through IVF… NHS won’t routinely prescribe these (highly depends on your practice and your GP, a kind of lottery).

I think a lot of the posts about hcg levels are from posters who've had bleeds and gone to the EPU (early preg unit) to check the pregnancy. So not standard practice at the Gp