I need help understanding hormones levels during pregnancy, I had a miscarriage and I am confused? Details..

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So, I am 23 yrs old and was pregnant for the 1st time, last week i started bleeding, then I went to the doctor on Monday thinking that I  had already miscarried, then to every ones surprise there was a baby with a heart beat! That was the 3rd ultrasound that I had done, and that was the 1st time a baby was seen. So I had hope, however the cramping started and point is I had a D&C procedure. Now my question is my hormones levels were dropping down by a lot. I remembered that in February of this year I went to the dr. cause I hadn't gotten my period for like 5 months! And he gave me pills for my period to come, and blood work, and he said my hormones were a lil low at the time. Now I'm worried that I may have a problem with my hormones. I won't see my dr till 4 wks, is there any medication for hormones to remain high, cause I do plan to get pregnant again in 3 months. Or once hormones are low you can't raise them up?

momstaxi · Accepted Answer

The hormone that dropped was the hormone hCG, which is produced by the body during pregnancy. Normally is it under 5, but when you get pregnant it rises rapidly and doubles every other day or so in the first weeks. A test of a viable pregnancy is to test the level one day then test again 2 days later, to see if it went up appropriately.

If your levels do not rise, or they go down, your body is losing the pregnancy and you have a miscarriage. The body can't sustain a pregnancy without the hormone.
There is no lasting problem from this. The hormone level itself isn't a problem, it's just that it goes down when the pregnancy miscarries for whatever reason.

Another hormone your dr. may be talking about is progesterone. It is required to help the body sustain the pregnancy, it is not produced by the pregnancy. If the levels are low, low enough to cause threat of miscarriage, a supplement can increase the levels enough to have a healthy pregnancy. With my 2nd, I had low progesterone and I took a supplement for the first 12 weeks and now I have a healthy 7-month old.

I became pregnant with her 3 months after I miscarried, with dropped levels of hCG like I talked about before.

So, essentially you more than likely have nothing to worry about. Miscarriages happen for a variety of reasons, and I can't speak for why you had yours, but as far as the hormones go, it sounds like you are a-ok.

Here is a website that tells you more about hCG:
www.americanpregnancy.org/duringpregnancy/hcglevels.html

? · Answer

The discharge could very well be implantation bleeding. Usually they say if it is not bright red you're pretty safe. I had the same thing, it was kind of like the last day of my period type looking stuff (TMI I'm sure). Just becuase you have low hormone levels doesn't mean much, as long as they aren't relly really low. Don't worry, things will work out for the best. GL

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