I know the wait is pretty heart wrenching and painful, but your doctor is really doing the right thing, from my experience, as soon as hcg levels start to stall or drop, depending on how high they were to start with, everything is usually over and done with within 2 weeks, if your waiting for a natural miscarriage to occour, but obviously this is just my experience, will be thinking of you and take care
Maybe suggest to your doctor to put you onto progesterone suppositories just as a backup for the first 12 weeks.
Also go to a naturopath who will prescribe much better parental vitamins than you can buy OTC.
My OB also suggests to take low dose aspirin (helps with blood flow to the uterus) and a good calcium vitamin which I'd get through a naturopath too.
A huge congrats to you. I'm 43 and wanting to get pg again too.
thanks for that and you're right, the doctor made the right call...I went in for another hcg level this am but won't know the results until tomorrow..I also had an ultrasound done , they could not find any signs of the pregnancy in the uterus or the tubes...they found a 2 cm mass on my right ovary that may or may not be the pregnancy..so depending on the hcg results drawn today, 1, we wait, 2, a shot of methotrexate, 3 D&C, 4, a laparoscopy....when the pregnancy thing is over, I have to have a repeat ultrasound, if the mass is still on my ovary (it may or may not be pregnancy related) I have to have surgery to remove it..the doctor said it may or may not be cancerous..they will do a frozen section while I'm still on the O.R. table, if it looks cancerous they will remove my ovaries at that time...I will keep everyone updated regardless...if it does turn out to be cancer, then this ultrasound was a good thing, I would have never known I had this mass on my ovary..
phew!! gosh you've got alot to take in,, maybe the whole pregnancy was a blessing as if it wasnt for the pregnancy as you said, you wouldnt have known, obviously I'm hoping that everything stays very simple for you!! with low numbers like that its usually to early to see much, anyway, am thinking of you and will check for updates, good luck xx
Debradesign, hope you are well.
Hi, thanks everyone for the well wishes!..I got my hcg results back from yesterday and it went from 467 to 685...I'm bummed, I had hoped that my body was going to take care of this naturally but I guess not..I'll talk to my doctor tomorrow hopefully to see what the next step is? I still have morning sickness :(