Question bout hcg levels and hpt's?

Question

what causes hcg levels to increase when you are pregnant? and if you WERE pregnant and the baby was fine and healthy what could cause a hpt to come up as neg?

Answer 1

"Human Chorionic Gonadotropin", or the "pregnancy hormone" rises as the fertilized egg develops further. It starts out at below 5 and continues to rise, preferably double every 2-3 days. And YES you can still be pregnant is you take the HPT too early for it to detect the HCG in your body. I just went through this. I got neg. HPTs for a week after the day my period should have come. And then I even went to the Dr for a blood test and it too was even neg. She had me come back in 2 days to get another (bc the levels double every 2 days) and that one was positive. They said I must have ovulated and gotten pregnant late in my cycle and it was just too Early for the tests to pick it up b4. Now I am 9 weeks pregnant with, so far, a healthy baby with a strong heartbeat! But my Dr. told me that babies are born all the time, perfectly healthy, when the mother had low HCG levels in early pregnancy. The gadgets we have today to detect early pregnancy, like ultra sounds and HPTs that say they can detect up to 5 days b4 your missed period are great most of the time, but sometimes they just scare us into thinking something is wrong. Best of Luck!!

Answer 2

HCG stands for human chorionic gonadotropin.  It's a hormone that increases once fertilization has occurred.  This is the body's natural response to the egg and sperm coming together.  HPTs can sometimes produce a false negative because some women do not produce enough of this hormone early in pregnancy to register on the tests.  This does not mean anything bad.  It's all such an individualized process, thus many women choose to confirm with a blood test from their doctor.  Having low or high hormone levels isn't bad or good.  It's simply just different for all women.

Answer 3

HCG is a pregnancy hormone, so if in fact you are pregnant your HCG levels usually double everyday.  Maybe you are testing to early, and some women don't get a positive on an HPT but its not that common.  

Answer 4

If you had a + and now it is negative, you may have had a miscarraige although you would know because you would have bleed and shed the tissue. If you ARE pregnant and you know the baby is healthy then it should come up + unless the test is defective. There are also a very RARE few people out there though that even at 5+ months pregnant will NEVER get a + on a pee test or blood test. Your HCG levels will not go down after a miscarriage or a birth if there is any tissue left in your uterus. So you would have had to have a complete miscarriage to have been pregnant then not be pregnant now...hope that helps.

Answer 5

Its the pregnancy hormones in a womans body that increases when a woman is pregnant maybe ur testing to early or u will have a chemical pregnancy(very early miscarriage)