Question About High HCG Levels?

[Shellbelle]

Okay, so I wasn't going to obsess. Really. But I've never had HCG levels anywhere near this high and the information I'm finding in my research is not really answering my questions. I have seen info that says that levels aren't a great indicator of how many embryos are present, but then I've also seen places like Betabase that show ranges that look a whole lot like mine, and they were for multliples.

At 16dpo, my beta was 1092
At 18dpo, it was 2209

We only saw one sac (measuring 4 weeks) on the ultrasound, but the tech said that it's too early to tell. From what I've read, at 4 weeks 3 days only one sac may be visible, even for fraternal twins. I go back next Friday afternoon to check again.

So for the twin moms out there, did you have high betas early on?

And for the singleton moms, has anyone else had numbers this high this early?

The waiting is going to drive me nuts. But at least we know I was right about my dates!

[nuthinbutpink]

I think your beta is just solid and does not indicate multiples. I think you would have seen a much larger jump with twins.

[Shellbelle]

Thanks, nbp!

[hotdogz&boyz]

My doctor also said that the doubling number is more indicative of twins then the actual numbers. So if your numbers were doubling every 20 hours instead of 48, that would be more of a sign of twins than having numbers in the 1000s at 16DPO.

My last pregnancy was twins, we lost one at 7 weeks. But my numbers were a little high, but not terribly so. I think they were 293 at 14DPO and 2400 at 17DPO...they were doubling about every day. We saw both babies at 6 weeks in one sac and got a strong heartbeat on our survivor and a weaker one on our loss.

But I have seen stranger things happen. I hope it's good news for you regardless

[Mrs_P]

Hey Shell just bumping your thread, have you had another scan yet???? any news?

[Shellbelle]

Thanks! Yes, just had it about 10 minutes ago. We just saw one, and a heartbeat!