My friend's doctor recently told her that she may be experiencing a chemical pregnancy. Given her specific sent of circumstances (beta numbers going up at a very fast rate) I am not sure I agree. That said, I wanted to find out more about chemical pregnancies.
Up until my foray into the world of obsessively TTC, I had never even heard of a chemical pregnancy. Essentially, it is a very early miscarriage. Typically it occurs right around when your period is due. Back in the dark ages, when our parents were trying to have us, they had no clue they were even pregnant. But with early home pregnancy tests, we can find out we are pregnant almost a week before our period is due.
This is one reason some women are against testing early, because you get a positive test, do the happy dance, tell your parents and best friend, and then a couple days later your period arrives.
The most common cause of a chemical pregnancy is a chromosomal abnormality, meaning the baby couldn't have survived. Other reasons are hormonal problems (luteal phase defect), uterine lining abnormalities (such as fibroids), or inadequate uterine lining.
I haven't been able to find in my search what the beta levels are in a chemical pregnancy. One site said a chemical pregnancy occurs when a baby isn't able to be seen on an ultrasound (nothing in the sac). I know from my experiences that my doctor likes to wait until your beta reaches 3000 to do an ultrasound. So by the transitive property I learned in geometry, perhaps a pregnancy that doesn't experience levels of 3000 is considered a chemical pregnancy. This is just my middle-school conjecture, though. It does seem for the ancedotal posts I have read online that numbers tend to be much lower than 3000.
Regardless of how, why, or when it happens, a miscarriage is a miscarriage. The upside for those who have experienced a chemical pregnancy is the knowledge that they can get pregnant. But let's be honest, it still sucks.
I had a CM with IVF and my numbers were something like 256 at firs which although confirmed the pregnancy were on the low side. They doubled 2 days later which was great but still low. About 3 days after that I started spotting and at 5 weeks it ended in a chemical pregnancy. I swear I've had another once since based on the symptoms and timing and spotting etc. but since I wasn't going to an RE at the time there is no way to confirm, only the BFN blood test that the gyno did that did not check beta levels. My point is just to give you numbers really although I'm sure as with everything else, everyone's numbers are different. And yes while sad and painful, even at 5 weeks before a heartbeat it did give me hope that I can get pregnant. Now the goal is to do it again, ideally naturally, and keep it.
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