Hcg after miscarriage and D&C

[djmommy]

Ok...thanks
I won't be doing opks just praying!

[atomic sagebrush]

Perfect!! I will too!

[djmommy]

Thanks. Definitely need it! ��

[djmommy]

I feel like a lunatic.
I'm testing to see whether this line will disappear.
Such a tease but yesterday's line and today's is so different. 20180818_102039.jpg

[djmommy]

I'm scared to test again to be again disappointed thinking it could possibly be real 20180818_101700.jpg

[atomic sagebrush]

I honestly think that if it's getting darker after having been lighter we do need to call in the big guns (doctor) to see what's going on. Having retained tissue can cause infections that can cost you your uterus or rarely even your life and I am just not liking how long this has hung on here. I feel like if it is a new pregnancy the test will be getting darker (and it may be a new pregnancy, jsut that it's not dark enough for me to count on that) but this back and forth very faint lines is worthy of more investigation.

[djmommy]

Yes I agree. Something is definitely going on. I will call on Monday. Im just so frustrated. I'll test again tomorrow.

[atomic sagebrush]

Please keep me posted how you're getting on and let me know if you have any more questions about anything they're telling you.

[djmommy]

I will, for sure. I'm just so confused like would I know if I had an infection or retained tissue still? Can retained tissue cause HCG to go up I don't even know anything?

[atomic sagebrush]

No, you don't usually know. I had a massive amount of retained tissue after giving birth once (sorry for TMI) but it was larger than a lemon, smaller than an orange and the baby was 3 months old! I didn't know it was there, didn't have an infection or anything, felt perfectly fine, just felt a sudden sharp pain and then there it was. We've also had a few people who had to go back for a second D and C even after some months had passed, and one unlucky woman had to have a 3rd. Just the exact same set of circumstances, pregnancy test never went away. They didn't feel sick or crampy, just kept getting positive pregnancy tests.

Retained tissue CAN keep HCG high. It's not likely to make it go up, but we have seen some utterly bizarre things occur with retained tissue so I wouldn't count anything out. I think at this stage of the game we can't know what is going on and so we need to be able to take a closer look.