Need some timing help (semi urgent)

You can ovulate with very small amounts of leftover hcg in your system! This happened to me recently after my ectopic pregnancy. I had surgery to remove my Fallopian tube Oct 3rd at which point my hcg was around 550. A couple of weeks later I had my blood drawn and my level had fallen to 33. A couple of days after that blood draw, I had bad pain in my right side and they had me come in for an ultrasound. They said that I was ovulating from my right side and that the pain was from a burst cyst. I was still getting faint positive hpts at that point. My hcg was probably in the 20s, but I did ovulate! They told me some people can ovulate with very low hcg levels still present in their system from a previous pregnancy.

Good luck and I hope your hcg is good today!!

Hi All - wanted to give a quick update! I spoke to my midwife today and she said my HCG is at a 58 today! She said this is most likely a new pregnancy and that I don't have an increased risk of another miscarriage because of this!

She did say that the numbers were "weird" to her and she had to confirm this with the doctors in her practice.

She said we need to do another HCG draw a week from today. And that we will eventually do an ultrasound when my HCG is high enough! :)

I feel extremely happy and blessed. If I don't miscarry, I will fill out my sway. I'm not sure if I would count this as 2 attempts in the window because. My husband didn't really cum in the first attempt?

I also don't know if I would say I was doing cardio and LE diet because I wasn't doing it when I was pregnant but I did it the months leading up to that pregnancy. And I was taking a prenatal like every 3 days too. And eating red meat here and there.

Sorry atomic - I just read what you said. The only thing that wouldn't add up in that scenario of the 6.6 being from pregnancy number 2 is that I didn't have sex until cycle day 14 and that was the night of my blood draw. I waited until 2 weeks after the bleeding from my miscarriage started. I'm sure we had sex a few times while I was pregnant with pregnancy number 1 but I don't think that HCG would even stack up. Is it possible that I ovulated like super late on my chart and got a super early positive and just have high HCG numbers or something. Could I have ovulated on like CD20?


I did ask her about retained tissue. She said that was kind of unlikely because I don't have cramping and pain right now.

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Originally Posted by CalsMom89

You can ovulate with very small amounts of leftover hcg in your system! This happened to me recently after my ectopic pregnancy. I had surgery to remove my Fallopian tube Oct 3rd at which point my hcg was around 550. A couple of weeks later I had my blood drawn and my level had fallen to 33. A couple of days after that blood draw, I had bad pain in my right side and they had me come in for an ultrasound. They said that I was ovulating from my right side and that the pain was from a burst cyst. I was still getting faint positive hpts at that point. My hcg was probably in the 20s, but I did ovulate! They told me some people can ovulate with very low hcg levels still present in their system from a previous pregnancy.

Good luck and I hope your hcg is good today!!

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Well, there ya have it! :)

Maybe they did get the numbers wrong. It's like a lab at a small hospital that you can just walk up to at anytime. Today the 6.6 number was in my "my chart" with the correct date but they could have mixed me up with another person still and had it in my record.

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Originally Posted by Dreamingofpinkafter2blue

Hi All - wanted to give a quick update! I spoke to my midwife today and she said my HCG is at a 58 today! She said this is most likely a new pregnancy and that I don't have an increased risk of another miscarriage because of this!

She did say that the numbers were "weird" to her and she had to confirm this with the doctors in her practice.

She said we need to do another HCG draw a week from today. And that we will eventually do an ultrasound when my HCG is high enough! :)

I feel extremely happy and blessed. If I don't miscarry, I will fill out my sway. I'm not sure if I would count this as 2 attempts in the window because. My husband didn't really cum in the first attempt?

I also don't know if I would say I was doing cardio and LE diet because I wasn't doing it when I was pregnant but I did it the months leading up to that pregnancy. And I was taking a prenatal like every 3 days too. And eating red meat here and there.

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:agree: totally that is from a new pregnancy. Can't be from retained tissue not because no cramping or pain (because trust me we have tons of people myself included who did not have cramping or pain but still had retained tissue) but because HCG is progressing normally. If you had gone back in and your HCG was still at 6 or something then we'd need to wonder.

just do what you can on the sway info - everyone has little things that aren't straightforward in there.

I think this is just one of those "exceptions that proves the rule" things and we're glad that it happened that way. We have people sitting there for 2-3 months after their HCG hits zero still not ovulating and that is a bazillion times more common than this. :agree: Good luck!

My HCG was 1,035 on Monday! The Monday before that (1 week ago)' my HCG was 58! Feeling very hopeful and will fill out the sway questionnaire thing as soon as we hear the HB (hopefully in a few weeks). The midwife is calling me today to talk about when we will do nan ultrasound. :)

That's great!! Huge congrats!