Monday, December 1, 2008

21DPO/16dp5dt beta

1406.
Progesterone: 321
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Doubling time: 45.28 hours.

For those for whom these numbers do not immediately translate: the all-important doubling time is good at less than 48 hours. Not okay, good. The overall number is normal, just a titch off the mode. The progesterone is crazy, crazy high -- first trimester numbers are supposed to be around 15-50; by the third trimester it can reach 200. I haven't been able to find much information about what "ridiculously high progesterone" means, but the doctor doesn't seem concerned... probably it just means that I had really a lot of follicles, which have left behind them really a lot of corpus luteum-ses, each one of which probably thinks it's the only one and so is pumping out P4 as fast as it can. Bless their little yellow hearts.

Me: relieved, grateful, still scared, officially pregnanter than I've ever been.

9 comments:

  1. Hurrah! This journal is definitely the highlight of my day.

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  2. BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! YAY AND HOORAY!!!! Love you, babe. Fingers still crossed! But YAAAAYYY!

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  3. Your hcg is fantastic!! What a relief.

    I do wonder about the high progesterone number though...when do you go in for an ultrasound?

    We have access to too much information and most of the time everything is FINE, but I did want to share at least some information I found: http://www.amazingpregnancy.com/pregnancy-articles/25.html

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  4. This is awesome!! So exciting!! YAY!!!

    (I had high betas which = bad morning sickness. Blah.)

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  5. HURRAY FOR YOUR PREGNANT SELF HURRAY

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  6. Yay!! Next hurdle-- ultrasound. This one's going to stick. I believe in it.

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  7. YEAHHHH!! CONGRATS!! THAT"S JUST WONDERFUL!!!!!!!

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