WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for January, 2000: Re: Very weird experience, sad ending

Re: Very weird experience, sad ending

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:49:40 -0600 (CST)

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At Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jodi wrote: >
>I had a tubal reversal in July and have been trying to conceive since
>September. In December I had ovulatory spotting but did get my period
>on January 8th. On cycle day 11 I again had ovulatory spotting (I
>thought) and a positive OPK. So, we didn't worry about it. After two
>days of increasing spotting I contacted doc who told me not to worry
>about midcycle spotting. But by the fourth day I woke up with bright
>red, heavy bleeding. Went to the ER, told I was pg (after blood test)
>and had hcg of 96. They told me to go home and wait it out. There was
>a possibility I wouldn't miscarry...50/50. They redid the bloods on
>Tuesday and my hcg was 46 so I did miscarry. So, the weird thing is
>they say I was 4 weeks pg. according to the hcg levels. So why a
>positive OPK then? Now, the other weird thing is yesterday no bleeding
>whatsoever. Today, drop in temp, high cervical position and egg white
>cervical mucus. What should I do and what is going on with my body!!

First let me express my sorrow for your loss. HCG levels are a very poor method of dating a pregnancy, and the range for any given gestational age is so wide as to make anything beyond a general time reference silly. The fact that the lab slips have date/value correlations fools the inexperienced into believing that it is a precise way to date gestation.

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