Re: dropping progesterone levels in early pregnancy

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I am not a dr., but I have had to pregnancies that I have had to use progesterone was very low. I had a little boy in May 01 and am 18 weeks pregnant now. I would say you have a great chance.

At Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Stephanie wrote: >
>Dear Doctors,
>
>I'm nervous because I had miscarriage a few months ago at approximately
>10 weeks. I had a D&E because the ultrasound showed only an empty sac.
>(I am 36 years old. I have had one other miscarriage seven years ago
>and, afterwards, a successful pregnancy with twins. I was using clomid
>then.) We skipped a month and tried again.
>At 9 days post ovulation I had a blood test with an hcg result of 14 and
>a progesterone result of 22. I took another blood test at 23 days post
>ovulation. The hcg level was 9,318 but the progesterone was down to
>10.9. The nurse practitioner put me on prometrium.
>My question is: What are the chances that this pregnancy will succeed?
>What do you think about taking the prometrium? Is there anything else I
>can do?
>
>Thanks so much for your help!!!
>
>-Stephanie

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