Your hormone levels are the only way of knowing for sure whats oing on with your prenancy. My expeience was alttle different the your. I lost the baby before I had my first uterurine u/s. They also thouht I must of miscalculated. Mu levels were very off they started going down drastically.
By then I needed a dand c. If the is a heart beat and your levels are rising you could of miscalculated. Let me know yesterdday was the day.

Well, I got my results of the quantatative hcg. My blood showed 15,000 of it on tues and 21,000 thurs. So, the levels are rising, which means the baby is growing. My doc told me that ideally he'd like to see the number double in a 48 hour period. It only went up 6,000. But from what i've read on the internet, most docs want to see it double in about 72 hours. Well, I am going back on tues to have blood drawn again. He said that as long as it is steadily rising, things should be okay. We will do another u/s in 2 weeks so he can see if the baby has made good progress. Thanks to 3kizz for your reply! I appreciate it.
Melanie

Ok, so I have had almost the exact same thing recently!!! I am so glad to know there is someone else out there as mixed up as I am! I went in for an examination last week because I had been experiencing some bleeding. The doctor confirmed my estimated time of being about 7 weeks along. He wanted to find out the reason for the bleeding and sent me for an ultrasound. The only problem was that the "blob" the ultrasound guy found was not a 7 week "blob." so I got sent for a 48 hour test too. My levels had doubled, but they were the levels of a person who is only about 3 weeks pregnant. I had to go back again today and I think my levels are still going up. I don't know what the heck is going on. A girl at my work told me about a friend of hers that had the same thing happen, but it was because she had miscarried but got pregnant right away again so she never even realized she had had one. Let me know what the doctor says! And good luck!

Thanks for your reply mylissa. I hope things go well for you. I had another quantatative hcg on tues and my value is now 39,000 (up from 21,000 last thurs). My doc said that it all sounds good. He scheduled me for another u/s next tues. I'll let you know if my "blob" looks more like a baby next week.
Melanie

According to my calculations, I should be 8 weeks pregnant. I went to the Dr. Yesterday and according to the vag. Ultrasound, he thinks I should be less far along then we thought. He didn't offer to do any kind of research through blood tests instead he just scheduled me for another ultrasound in 2 weeks.

I also mentioned to him that my symptoms, tender breasts and naseau have some what subsided. My breasted are very, very swollen and I sometimes get naseauous but it's not constant anymore.

Did anyone else's symptoms subside?

Hey christine and drmel_dc, how's it going? My doctor is out of town so I can't talk to him about my last quantitave, but my spotting is subsiding so I feel much better. Christine, if you are feeling concerned, you should request that your doctor allow you to do the hcg quantitative test (48 hour test) like drmel_dc and I have had. You end up looking a bit like a heroine user from the pinpricks, but I felt much better knowing that the only way those levels could be going up was if I was pregnant.

Yes they were very strong in the beginning and then lessened. Either we get used to the hormones more, or it is because it is not such an impact on our body anymore. Or the progestrone and estrogen in the beginning, and hcg later on--along with progestrone. I dont know it has happened to a lot of the girls on here, including myself. I know I am still pregnant.

Thank you so much for your replies. I am going to my Dr. On monday for some more tests and another sonogram. What's making things worse is that my actual Dr. Hasn't been in his office for several weeks (everyone of his clients have been giving birth!) so i've been seeing his associate who doesn't have half the bedside manor that my Dr. Does.

Thanks again for all the positive thoughts...

My symptoms went away the week that I had my miscarriage, but don't worry, that's not true all the time.

I am so glad to hear someone else has been through this.
I am a new member so I have not seen any new happenings.Until this moment I believed I was no longer pregnant.I was told after ultrasound and blood tests it could be an abnormality so I gave up because I was bleeding as if I had my period and slightly cramping and due to my age 39 being high risk there is a gray area but no heartbeat in so many words sounded to me as if I was already miscarrying.Any advice from anyone or a obgyn that knows what they are doing instead of terrifying already scared first time mothers?Can anyone help?

I am going through the same thing right now. I have calculated that I should be 9 weeks, but the u/s showed that I was only about 5 weeks. I'm really scared because I had a miscarriage which my last pregnancy. I was about 8 weeks in when I started bleeding. I called the doctor but the appointment was set for 2 weeks later. I hope everything is okay this time because we really want this baby.