To the best of my knowledge, usually when HCG drops, it is never a good sign. I researched this quite a bit bc when I was 6.5 weeks, I had both sacs formed but no baby on the ultrasound. My hcg had slightly dropped and we had ultrasounds for 3 more weeks, hoping that we had our dates wrong..the baby never showed and my hcg only dropped every day. One of the last ultrasounds finally showed the sacs collapsed, they were deteriorating..my husband and I had read success stories and hung onto any hope we could get up until this point..this is weeks later and I still had not bled or passed anything. It took almost a month before I officially miscarried and I bled for 3 weeks! I do not want to discourage you, but I think anyone in this situation should prepare for the worst and hope for the best..they ruled my miscarriage as a "blighted ovum" even though you do not even get as far as developing a sac with a true blighted ovum but it was such a similar situation, they considered it the same. My dr explained to us that with every tiny specification of what it takes to grow a baby, there are so many things that can go wrong. Something just didn't align right, she said most likely it was a chromosome issue. Even though it was a very tough time for us and we were devestated-we were ironically grateful at the same time..it's amazing how your body can sense when things are not right and can shut down the situation as a preventative. We finally agreed that it was better to lose the baby so early on bc there was obviously something very wrong w the formation and having to carry the entire pregnancy, bonding to this unborn child of ours, birthing, and then it passing away a few hours or so after birth bc of it's defects would have been unbearable..I had a concern that something was wrong w my body, that I was incapable of carrying a baby. My dr reassured me that it was nothing that I did wrong, nothing I could prevent, it just happens and happens very often..since then, as I talk w people about it, I find that it's happened to an overwhelming amount of people. Everyone had a friend, sister, or themselves that had been through the same events. You don't realize it or hear much about it bc it is usually private and not shared with everyone. So, I hope that your situation can turn around and u can have a healthy baby out of this. But remember that if it doesn't happen this time around, it is usually in the best interest of you and the baby. You have to be thankful for your body's ability to abort the situation early on and save some grief of what could be tragic later down the road..nothing is wrong w you, u did nothing wrong and it usually never happens back-to-back so u can immediately try again when ur hcg shows 5 or less and ur dr confirms it's safe..I hope that everything I have told u can be irrelevant and u will not need the advice and comfort and ur situation will turn around and hcg begin to rise but I think that having so much false hope can be more hurtful sometimes. You need to have the understanding that hcg drops are almost always a sign of miscarriage and miscarriage sometimes takes a while to happen which can throw u in a long state of limbo and confusion on what's going on. Try to request an ultrasound to see more of what's going on in there..best wishes to you and your family!
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To the best of my knowledge, usually when HCG drops, it is never a good sign. I researched this quite a bit bc when I was 6.5 weeks, I had both sacs formed but no baby on the ultrasound. My hcg had slightly dropped and we had ultrasounds for 3 more weeks, hoping that we had our dates wrong..the baby never showed and my hcg only dropped every day. One of the last ultrasounds finally showed the sacs collapsed, they were deteriorating..my husband and I had read success stories and hung onto any hope we could get up until this point..this is weeks later and I still had not bled or passed anything. It took almost a month before I officially miscarried and I bled for 3 weeks! I do not want to discourage you, but I think anyone in this situation should prepare for the worst and hope for the best..they ruled my miscarriage as a "blighted ovum" even though you do not even get as far as developing a sac with a true blighted ovum but it was such a similar situation, they considered it the same. My dr explained to us that with every tiny specification of what it takes to grow a baby, there are so many things that can go wrong. Something just didn't align right, she said most likely it was a chromosome issue. Even though it was a very tough time for us and we were devestated-we were ironically grateful at the same time..it's amazing how your body can sense when things are not right and can shut down the situation as a preventative. We finally agreed that it was better to lose the baby so early on bc there was obviously something very wrong w the formation and having to carry the entire pregnancy, bonding to this unborn child of ours, birthing, and then it passing away a few hours or so after birth bc of it's defects would have been unbearable..I had a concern that something was wrong w my body, that I was incapable of carrying a baby. My dr reassured me that it was nothing that I did wrong, nothing I could prevent, it just happens and happens very often..since then, as I talk w people about it, I find that it's happened to an overwhelming amount of people. Everyone had a friend, sister, or themselves that had been through the same events. You don't realize it or hear much about it bc it is usually private and not shared with everyone. So, I hope that your situation can turn around and u can have a healthy baby out of this. But remember that if it doesn't happen this time around, it is usually in the best interest of you and the baby. You have to be thankful for your body's ability to abort the situation early on and save some grief of what could be tragic later down the road..nothing is wrong w you, u did nothing wrong and it usually never happens back-to-back so u can immediately try again when ur hcg shows 5 or less and ur dr confirms it's safe..I hope that everything I have told u can be irrelevant and u will not need the advice and comfort and ur situation will turn around and hcg begin to rise but I think that having so much false hope can be more hurtful sometimes. You need to have the understanding that hcg drops are almost always a sign of miscarriage and miscarriage sometimes takes a while to happen which can throw u in a long state of limbo and confusion on what's going on. Try to request an ultrasound to see more of what's going on in there..best wishes to you and your family!
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