Re: 5w5d, high hcg and no yolk in growing sac

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What does this mean?

At Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Kris wrote: >
>Two days ago I had a vaginal ultrasound and they checked my hcg levels.
>I was at 5w 3d. It's possible to be off a couple days since we don't
>know when sperm and egg connected, but because I left town for a week
>and a half, I know that I conceived on either 9/20 or 9/21.
>Anyhow, they just found the sac with nothing in it so they took my hcg
>levels and they came back at 7000. The doctor and staff don't seem
>overly optomistic and while reading on the internet, I found a site that
>said the gestational sac should be seen at 2000 (hcg) which it is and
>the yolk at 3000 or 4000 (hcg).
>
>Today I went back and the ultrasound showed that the sac had grown to
>11mm, but still nothing inside. I'll get my hcg's back this afternoon
>and will update this when I get them.
>
>Do you think this is a blighted ovum? Is there any hope?
> The waiting is tearing me apart.

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