How long during pregnancy is HCG present?

hugs babe

loves to you - negative is disappointing, but it's only a couple of days til you get your scan

:hug: hope all is well darl

Wow, how confusing for you! Wishing you all the best for Thursday :hug:.

All the best for Thursday *fingers crossed* for a pleasant outcome

Oh i really really hope it is a BFP for your "friend"!!!!!
I am stalking here....


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Keike I hope everything goes ok with ur scan

Ooooh, this sounds very interesting for your friend :lol:

I hope their scan goes smoothly and has a super positive outcome (waiting with baited breath for tomorrow's update)

Best wishes for the scan tomorrow :)

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Thinking of you & hope your scan has a positive outcome for you today!

:hug: good luck today!

All the best for today!

Thanks ladies :) Just about to leave for it, very scared! Professor organised with his boss to have this morning off for the scan thankfully, so I won't be all alone. Should be back in about an hour....

i'm at the end of a text message all morning babe

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Sending strength

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Hope it's the answer you are wanting !

xoxo

Thinking of you.

Would sooo love to hear some good news :) thinking of you *hugs*

Oh wow, have only just come across this tread.

Good luck, I hope it's great news!

oh oh oh .... has it been an hour yet??? waiting.... waiting..... :)

Wow I just saw this thread. Thinking of you and hoping the results are what you would like. :)

I you would love for that scan to show up a healthy little bubba in there, but there could be other reasons for what you are feeling as well :hug: I just don't want you to get your hopes up and then have them crushed :hug:

ditto what Trillian said :hug: but SOOOOOOOOOOOOO hoping for the best!!!

goodluck beautiful

Nothing. Although they were kind enough to tell me I may have PCOS and will need to get it confirmed with hormone testing. Not much of a surprise, considering I was diagnosed 8 years ago.

You know what I find strange? I've told 2 specialists about that lump thing, and neither of them has attempted to feel it. I would've thought that'd be the first thing they'd do?

Keike, that is a real worry that they are dismissing what you are saying about that and not looking into it further. Do you think maybe going to a completely new Dr and asking them about it might help?

I truly wish it had of been what you were hoping for though :hug:

:( I am sorry to hear that.

Bummmm I have been stalky stalky here! Weird they haven't felt it? What did they say? or did they completely ignore it?

Wish it was different news for you, hang in there its on its way xxx

Sorry to read they didn't find anything. Did they not see the lump at all? It worries me that you've got a lump that's causing you pain but they can't see it.

Big hugs :hug:.

It does seem strange that the specialists haven't felt for the lump. Did it not show up in the scan?

Can you see another Dr? If this lump is worrying you, you need to listen to your instincts and find someone who will take you seriously, even if just for your own peace of mind it must be stressful not knowing what it is.

I'm sorry they didn't find anything :hug:

I don't know Trillian, I don't seem to have much luck with doctors. I seriously think I'm put in the 'too hard' basket...actually, it's probably the 'too fat' basket. Just writing a scathing blog post now about that whole issue, to avoid ringing ACA or TT. I'd love to hire a young skinny actress to go to the doc with my symptoms, and see how she was treated :rofl:

Nope Tash, nothing. They mentioned that the cysts on the right ovary are rather large, but that's it.

Pretty jaded right about now. Well, swinging from being galactically angry to deciding that this is the end of our fertility journey, time to pick another. I didn't really expect there to be a baby, I just wanted something to be bad enough that they'd follow it up. I just KNOW there's something wrong, and they're not seeing it on scans. But with the scans not showing anything, they won't go further until I'm BMI 35. And then I'd hafta wait another 12 months to prove that my infertility is not weight related. So we're looking 2 years minimum, by which time we'd have been trying for almost 7 years. I just don't understand when doctors were given permission to deny treatment :wall:

The lump may not be visible on a pelvic scan, and that's all they did. I mentioned it to them, because I thought they'd at least run the ultrasound over the area y'know? But nothing.

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So sorry to hear about this. Hope you can find the answers you are looking for.

sigh. i was hoping for an answer to the lump if nothing else

I'm not an expert and maybe ask Junglemum, but I wonder if an MRI would show more? I think they see more than ultrasound.

I'm sorry it wasn't good news. And I'm sorry you were treated (or not, rather) like that.

ETA - Tash, I think they'd only do an MRI if something showed up on an ultrasound first and wanted a better look. But it sounds as if they didn't look at Keike's whole abdomen anyway.

That sucks :hug: You need a new GP. You deserve some answers hon

Aw mate that sucks. I'm concerned a painful lump is not being investigated also :hug:

Oh Keike, ongoing pain is never nice. :hug:

When you say pelvic ultrasound did they do a transvaginal only or did they also put the transducer on the outside of your abdomen? It can be very difficult to obtain clear images on people with high BMI as the layer of fat absorbs the ultrasound beam, making details harder to see. So even if there was a pathology there it can sometimes be difficult to see on an abdominal. By doing a TV ultrasound they can get closer to the organs of interest, while still checking out the surrounding soft tissue. So although you might think they didn't look where you said, they possibly did. (I hope you don't think i am being rude, :hug:)

If this pain is new and significant i would be going back to the dr. Unfortunately it is true that larger people have more aches and pains and stresses on their body than others, and often i guess these can be easily dismissed. But you need to be persistent. They most likely wouldn't do an MRI unless another imaging modality indicated it would be useful. But they could do plain film x-rays and/or a CT scan which may or may not show a problem. Sometimes changing doctors is more of a PITA than just being persistent with the one you already see. Tell them it is a lump that wasn't there before and it is REALLY painful. Ask what further steps can be taken to investigate it. Ask them to feel the lump. If the Dr is unwilling to help, get your files, go to new dr, tell them you've already had x,y,and z and you are really concerned and would like further investigation.

Those large cysts you speak of could cause this pain you are talking about..... But don't really explain the lump.... Unless they are so large they are compressing your bowl and pushing it forward?!

The other thing that could cause a pain like that is a back injury. If you have damaged a nerve of something it could easily radiate pain like that, although it doesn't account for the lump you describe.... But a trip to a chiro or an osteo might be useful as well.

Go back to the drs and ask for further investigation. :hug:

They did both JM, they did on my lower belly/upper thigh area first, for about 1 minute. Then she said to go pee (thank goodness!) and come back and have a TV one. I have a retroverted uterus as well as the excess weight, so I knew it was gonna happen. She did the TV, measured the endometrium (said it was unusually thick), measured both ovaries, measured the one large cyst and commented that there were several follicles. And that was it. No, you're not being rude hon :) I know my weight is an issue and I'm working on it.

The pain is not so new, but the lump is. I can't see it, I can only feel it, it's very hard. Just today I've started getting the pain I usually get when a cyst bursts, it's always on this side, so perhaps it'll burst on its own. NOT looking forward to that, the normal ones are bad enough, but if it's what I can feel from the outside, it's not gonna be pretty!

Thanks for your advice JM, it's very helpful :hug: