HCG Levels in Early Pregnancy Chart
Your HCG levels in your pregnancy week by week indicate first of all if you are pregnant, and, as your pregnancy continues, how your pregnancy is progressing.
When you take your home pregnancy test, you results are dictated by the HCG levels found in your urine. HCG levels are noticeable about two weeks after conception. They are measured in milli-international units per milliliter (mIU/ml).
The following is a chart for average HCG levels in pregnancy week by week:
Non-pregnant females average <5.0 mIU/ml, and postmenopausal females average <9.5 mIU/ml.
It is key to note that these HCG levels are the average. They are not set in stone levels which, if your HCG levels do not match up with, indicate you are having problems. Some women’s HCG levels are naturally much higher or lower.
What is truly important about your HCG levels is if they are doubling every two to three days. Normal pregnancies are usually indicated by doubling levels. Consequently, if your levels do not just match up with the chart but are still doubling, you have no reason to worry. Your body does not have to follow the average to be functioning properly.
If your HCG levels during your pregnancy are not doubling, it could mean a possible miscarriage, a blighted ovum, or an ectopic pregnancy. It could also simply mean an error in pregnancy dating.
As the hormone HCG are produced by the cells which make up the placenta, a lowering of your levels can indicate you may not have a baby forming. A blighted ovum is a fertilized egg which attaches to the uterine wall but does not develop. You may have high HCG levels at first, indicating you are pregnant, especially as the cells can form the pregnancy sac, but as the embryo is not fertilized it will fail to grow, and your HCG levels will drop.
When the embryo grows outside the uterus, it is diagnosed as an ectopic pregnancy. Almost all ectopic pregnancies occur in a fallopian tube, and are sometimes called tubal pregnancies.
On the other hand, your HCG levels could be high, which could indicate twins (or more!), an ectopic pregnancy, or Down’s syndrome.
Be sure to use the HCG levels in pregnancy chart above to see if your pregnancy is normal.
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ok so i am real confused i took home pregnancy test on the 25th of september and it was positive but in the emergency room it was negitive but blood test said positive hcg levels were only 136 they told me and they said that i didnt match my first day of my last period though so i must have conceived recently and that i needed to get hcg levels drawn in two days to make sure they are rising on the 27th i tested again andmy levels went to 176 the nurse said i was having a phantom pregnancy because there was no sack or yolk on the 25th and my levels should be doubling by now and because i didnt test positive on the urine test at the hospital well i bought 2 more tests both were postive and i went to a womens pregnancy center and it was positive. on the 3rd of october i went to WIC for a new mom appointment and the test was positive there as well then on the 5th i went to dr and it was positve so they did another hcg level my levels are now 2272 and there is a yolk sack in my utterus but they are saying its low but according to your chart im right on track. im sorry i just rambled on there for awhile. my point is i am very highrisk and i was on fertility medicine and the dr office told me they werent gonna help me get pregnant anymore and now they are giving me the run around i just wanta straight answer from someone so i can stop worring thanks and god bless
Sincerely mrs hamilton
hi i took a pregnancy test and it can back neg and after 3 mins it turned positive. i have had 1 misscarage then i had my little boy withch is now 2 and then i have had 2 blighted ovums them 2 days after loosing the sack to the blighted ovum i had another test and it said i was pregnant. i was and i had a little girl who is now 6 months. back to the test i have just took. i went for a early scan and they said they coulld not see a yolk sack or anything so 2 days after i had more bloods taken and they have trippled i am just woundering if i am having a multiple birth because my levels are really high for how mamy weeks i should be.
thanks for reading …. kirsty
I AM CONFUSED..SUPER CONFUSED..LIKE MRS HAMILTON I HAVE TAKEN LIKE 5 HOME PREGNANCY TESTS ALL SAYING POSITIVE… AT THE DOCTORS THE URINE TEST SAYS NEGATIVE..BUT HCG IS READING 12:( IM SUPPOSED TO BE 5WEEKS ACCORDING TO MY LAST PERIOD WHICH SHOULD MAKE MY HCG AT LEAST 1000 THEY SAY IT IS PROBABLY NOT VIABLE BUT IVE LOOKED AT ALL THESE CHARTS SAYING4 WEEEKS BETWEEN 5-426…SO ISNT IT POSSIBLE ITS JUST VERY EARLY????
MY LMP WAS 09/30/2011..I AM APPROX. 6-7 WEEKS PREGNANT. I HAD AN ULTRASOUND TODAY, SHOWING EMBRYO SAC..NO FETUS..NO FETAL POLE. MY BHCG TODAY WAS 9614 AND LAST WEEK IT WAS 4400. I RECENTLY HAD A BLIGHTED OVUM IN MAY THIS YEAR WITH NO FETAL POLE NO HEART BEAT DETECTED.
WHAT SHOULD I THINK? VIABLE PRENANCY THIS TIME OR NIGHT? IS IT COMMON FOR NO FETUS TO SHOW UP ON ULTRASOUND AT 6-7 WEEKS
I am confused, I went to the hospital and the Dr. said I was pregnant. I was spotting so I was rushed to another hospital those Dr. said I wasn’t pregnant…They advise me that my hcg level was 35 and said I should re-test in one week. My curiosity got the best of me, so i bought test. i took 3 test and they all are positive. how far along am I ?
Ok at this point I’m completely freaking out!! My last “real” period was 7/27 and in August I missed my period, I took a couple of test and they were negative. I had been completely regular for years, except for a few years ago when my period stopped but I was really sick. Once everything was back to normal so did my period. So in September I went to the dr. for a blood test and my hcg level was 9.5, but all I got was a letter saying all my test results were normal. I have never done a blood test before so I didn’t know anything about it. I had urine test with my two previous pregnancies so I didn’t think anything of it. The dr. Had given me provera to get my period and I got it but it was lite. As time went bye I started feeling flutters and blamed them on everything else because I assumed I wasn’t pregnant. Now the flutters have recently changed to the familiar thump thump of a baby. I’m away from home and out of state for the next month and either I’m pregnant or I’m going insane!!
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