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Re: BHCG levels
From: M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 31 Mar 2001 01:10:15 -0600 (CST)

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At Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Dounia wrote: >
>I had a very heavy bleeding (for a month an a half) 2 months ago....My
>doctor did a blood test only approximately three weeks after I started
>the bleeding and did not find any signs of pregnancy. She concluded
>that it was perhaps an unovulatory cycle.....Since then, no periods, my
>doctor sent me to have an ultra-sound done, the results are some sort of
>clotting, probably left overs of a miscarriage as I am not pregnant.
>My question is: could the BHCG levels drop right after a miscarriage? or
>are they suppose to stay significant for a while?... (I had my hormonal
>levels checked they're OK as well as a biopsy of uterus for
>endometriosis so it is not that!)
>Thanks for helping me understand
>
>--
>Dounia

HCG levels do drop after a miscarraige, but how rapidly they return to zero depends on how high they were in hte first place and how quickly your body miscarried all the pregnancy tissue

-- M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG South Lake Tahoe, CA
author, Your Over-35 Week-by-Week Pregnancy Guide
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