My experience with slow rising Beta numbers

clearlipstick · 09-15-2006, 08:28 PM

This one is lengthy but I pray those waiting on slow rising numbers may read and be a little informed of what to possibly expect.

I remember browsing this board and the net in general about four and a half months ago, desperately searching for someone to tell me that slow rising beta numbers can still produce a healthy baby. The more I personally researched the more I heard the cry of many women experiencing the very frustration/ terror that I was.
I had previously lost two babies. One at 5mnths due to tightly coiled cord and the next from a blighted ovum. Now a blighted ovum was generally a one off event so I held out hope for the one I was now carrying and in trouble. When I first found out I was pregnant about four months ago I spotted at the time I was due for my period.
I went to the doctors for help. They immediately started testing my hcg levels.
They rose remarkably in week four (since first day of last menstruation.)of my pregnancy. My level then even nearly tripled at the close of that week. Due to the rapid doubling I started scouring the boards looking for the possibility of twins.
So week four marked rapid growth of the little being/s inside of me. The beginning of week five things changed. Instead of seeing rapid growth continue or even normal doubling, my numbers were not doubling in the normal time frame. So I then comforted myself that they had reached the 6000 UIL stage so the doubling time would take longer. This information I found on some but not all web sights. Perhaps I was losing a vanishing twin was another idea quiet viable and at the time comforting. Between week 5 and six the numbers then went up only twenty points in total. At this time I was sent to see a specialist. I explained my concern on slow rising beta’s. He then did a transvaginal ultrasound and found a heartbeat. I tried once again to tell him that the numbers had seised doubling. His attitude was curt and he insisted that once the heartbeat was found I could dismiss the issue with Hcg numbers. I took the little picture of the life inside of me home. At home I noticed two things: the heartbeat was in the nineties. This was two slow for a healthy foetus of the gestational age I knew it was. The length showed a baby one week younger and not the size a heartbeat was supposed to show up on anyway. To cut a long story short I felt at that point the doctors were either to busy to deal with a so called neurotic pregnant woman, or simple desperation had made me more of an expert then they had become due to having no real concern for my dying baby. The foetus did struggle on another three weeks but its heartbeat stopped at around eight weeks.

All in all I saw
Rapid growth in beta numbers in week four.
Slowing down in growth in week five.
Week six picked up slow heart beat.
Week eight loss of baby due to non-viable pregnancy.

I fell pregnant recently again after trying desperately. I did not test my hcg levels this time until I hit five weeks. This I knew to be the time frame that the last one’s numbers stopped doubling at.

Yes, this week I have found out the numbers have smack dab in the middle of the week stopped doubling, with a doubling time of 115 hours.

How do I explain to the doctors I don’t want to get the ultra sound, see a week heartbeat and wait another three weeks or so for them to decide a dnc is the best for me.

Please know it is not my desire to depress those trying to find hope in world that is currently for them filled with fear. It is however an attempt to prepair them for a possible shock should they see a heartbeat and the baby pass on a little later.

If others have had a pregnancy that has followed my pattern please let me know. I am consoling myself at the present by trying to research patterns in non-viable pregnancies.

Tiffany

clearlipstick · 09-18-2006, 04:05 AM

Ladies. I want to share something I just cant understand!!!
I went in for what I thought was my final beta count this morning and as a result I am sitting here stunned to be honest. My firt set of scores read 5992. The second count two days later read 7954. THis was a doubling time of way over the outer bracket of 96 hours. I went three days later and they have jumped upto 14032.

I had a ultrasound and it showed a sac and yoke but no fetal pole and I am right on six weeks. Should I hope?

Mommysunny · 09-18-2006, 08:17 AM

Repeated pg loss, especially after a heartbeat has been detected warrents testing to see if heparin or baby aspirin could help you. I would demand that this be done today. Antiphospholipid anitbody syndrome... I lost a total of 6 pregnancies in all. One little aspirin and a couple a shots a day, saved my babies. I'll pray for you and your baby. It is odd that the doubling is so good yet no visible heartbeat yet. I would not give up hope though. I remember a woman who had what she thought was a blighted ovum at the same time as one of mine. We each went in for our D&C and asked for a final US. She was 8 wks, I was 10. She found a heartbeat, at that point on that day for the first time, she went on to have a heatlhy baby. Sadly that was not the outcome for me for that pg. But if she had not demanded that last US and just gone ahead...
I hope this pg ends with a healthy baby in your arms, or at the very least the answers you need to achieve that one day.

09-15-2006, 08:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
clearlipstick Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 2	My experience with slow rising Beta numbers This one is lengthy but I pray those waiting on slow rising numbers may read and be a little informed of what to possibly expect. I remember browsing this board and the net in general about four and a half months ago, desperately searching for someone to tell me that slow rising beta numbers can still produce a healthy baby. The more I personally researched the more I heard the cry of many women experiencing the very frustration/ terror that I was. I had previously lost two babies. One at 5mnths due to tightly coiled cord and the next from a blighted ovum. Now a blighted ovum was generally a one off event so I held out hope for the one I was now carrying and in trouble. When I first found out I was pregnant about four months ago I spotted at the time I was due for my period. I went to the doctors for help. They immediately started testing my hcg levels. They rose remarkably in week four (since first day of last menstruation.)of my pregnancy. My level then even nearly tripled at the close of that week. Due to the rapid doubling I started scouring the boards looking for the possibility of twins. So week four marked rapid growth of the little being/s inside of me. The beginning of week five things changed. Instead of seeing rapid growth continue or even normal doubling, my numbers were not doubling in the normal time frame. So I then comforted myself that they had reached the 6000 UIL stage so the doubling time would take longer. This information I found on some but not all web sights. Perhaps I was losing a vanishing twin was another idea quiet viable and at the time comforting. Between week 5 and six the numbers then went up only twenty points in total. At this time I was sent to see a specialist. I explained my concern on slow rising beta’s. He then did a transvaginal ultrasound and found a heartbeat. I tried once again to tell him that the numbers had seised doubling. His attitude was curt and he insisted that once the heartbeat was found I could dismiss the issue with Hcg numbers. I took the little picture of the life inside of me home. At home I noticed two things: the heartbeat was in the nineties. This was two slow for a healthy foetus of the gestational age I knew it was. The length showed a baby one week younger and not the size a heartbeat was supposed to show up on anyway. To cut a long story short I felt at that point the doctors were either to busy to deal with a so called neurotic pregnant woman, or simple desperation had made me more of an expert then they had become due to having no real concern for my dying baby. The foetus did struggle on another three weeks but its heartbeat stopped at around eight weeks. All in all I saw Rapid growth in beta numbers in week four. Slowing down in growth in week five. Week six picked up slow heart beat. Week eight loss of baby due to non-viable pregnancy. I fell pregnant recently again after trying desperately. I did not test my hcg levels this time until I hit five weeks. This I knew to be the time frame that the last one’s numbers stopped doubling at. Yes, this week I have found out the numbers have smack dab in the middle of the week stopped doubling, with a doubling time of 115 hours. How do I explain to the doctors I don’t want to get the ultra sound, see a week heartbeat and wait another three weeks or so for them to decide a dnc is the best for me. Please know it is not my desire to depress those trying to find hope in world that is currently for them filled with fear. It is however an attempt to prepair them for a possible shock should they see a heartbeat and the baby pass on a little later. If others have had a pregnancy that has followed my pattern please let me know. I am consoling myself at the present by trying to research patterns in non-viable pregnancies. Tiffany

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09-18-2006, 04:05 AM	#2 (permalink)
clearlipstick Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 2	Ladies. I want to share something I just cant understand!!! I went in for what I thought was my final beta count this morning and as a result I am sitting here stunned to be honest. My firt set of scores read 5992. The second count two days later read 7954. THis was a doubling time of way over the outer bracket of 96 hours. I went three days later and they have jumped upto 14032. I had a ultrasound and it showed a sac and yoke but no fetal pole and I am right on six weeks. Should I hope?

09-18-2006, 08:17 AM	#3 (permalink)
Mommysunny Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 201	Repeated pg loss, especially after a heartbeat has been detected warrents testing to see if heparin or baby aspirin could help you. I would demand that this be done today. Antiphospholipid anitbody syndrome... I lost a total of 6 pregnancies in all. One little aspirin and a couple a shots a day, saved my babies. I'll pray for you and your baby. It is odd that the doubling is so good yet no visible heartbeat yet. I would not give up hope though. I remember a woman who had what she thought was a blighted ovum at the same time as one of mine. We each went in for our D&C and asked for a final US. She was 8 wks, I was 10. She found a heartbeat, at that point on that day for the first time, she went on to have a heatlhy baby. Sadly that was not the outcome for me for that pg. But if she had not demanded that last US and just gone ahead... I hope this pg ends with a healthy baby in your arms, or at the very least the answers you need to achieve that one day.