Geez, I feel like I've been doing these beta posts for weeks now! It feels like it should be titled "50th beta!"
So the number today was 823. On Monday it was 310. It keeps creeping up, but not going where it should. The doubling time is every 68 hours or something. Last time it was every 52 hours I think. I'm starting to lose track.
I had scheduled a follow up call with Dr. Potter for tonight when I got that initial 54 beta at 12dpt, then almost cancelled it when my numbers kept going up. A few days ago I decided to keep it and ask him a different set of questions (what's going on with this pg versus doing an FET). In Lori's email to me this afternoon she said she would keep the appt. today, so I would guess this means we've waited for this baby to catch up long enough. I'm ready to be done I think, although I need to hear from him there's no chance there's a baby that will develop normally in there. My call is set for 4:00 pacific time, so in another hour.
If you think it's a mistake to stop supps. now please let me know. I don't want to give up hope, and will certainly weigh Dr. Potter's advice very heavily, but I'm open to being done now if that's what he thinks is right. I should feel worse about this, and maybe I will when I crawl in bed tonight, but I did so much grieving last week with that initial beta that I think I kind of accepted this then.
UPDATE - I spoke with Dr. Potter last night for over an hour. He said based on my initial beta he gave me a 50% chance of a viable pregnancy. Based on this last beta though, the number has dropped to 30% since it is starting to plateau. He wants me to stay on the meds and go in for the ultrasound as scheduled next Thursday. He felt that we would either see an empty sac, at which point I would stop meds, we would see a yolk sac, which he would want me to go back the following week to see if anything has progressed, or we would see a heartbeat, which would be the best surprise ever.
We talked about why this happens, and most likely it is a chromosomal abnormality. If this pregnancy ends he agreed to let me do immune testing to be sure we're not missing anything before the FET. He felt that my odds of having at least one of the 5 frosties take was very good. Sometimes it's just luck - we picked the two best looking ones but they may not have been the healthiest ones.
Finally, we talked about where to do the FET (if we have to). He said the risks are small but unknown for shipping embryos. He said occasionally they get cracked straws (the straws are what hold the embryos). Can you imagine how awful that would be. So, I may just make the trip back to Cali rather than try to have them shipped here. I've never been a gambler, even though I think it would be a small risk, what if something happened to them? So for now we wait and see, and I continue to try to look forward to success with an FET. He definitely gave me hope for that.