HCG please help

Less than or equal to 5 means you're not pregnant, anything above 5 would mean you're pregnant but the results should be higher than 5.
If you are confused about the results you should ask the nurse at your GP to explain it more. If they cant then you have the right to ask your GP to explain it.
Blood HCG levels arent routinely done in pregnancy unless they are looking for a mc or ectopic pregnancy or there is bleeding. Why did they check your blood levels? Have you a positive urine pregnancy test?

Its classed as negative. Your only 8DPO though which is really very early to test and for bloods. I doubt my doc would even bother at 8DPO.

Your best to wait a few days and then test again, it takes 48hrs on average for hcg to double, some people rise faster and slower. I get very faint positive tests on 12DPO and you can only see those if I hold them up to the light

If its showing in your urine then it will show on the blood test, and vice versa, if your urine is negative then the blood test will be negative. The blood test isnt actually more sensitive than a urine test ( I thought it was til I needed to get it done).
Im assuming your AF is late for you to be doing the tests, but if it isnt then you need to wait till it is late, sometimes it shows up on the same day as your AF is due but other times it takes a week.

melissag wrote: If its showing in your urine then it will show on the blood test, and vice versa, if your urine is negative then the blood test will be negative. The blood test isnt actually more sensitive than a urine test ( I thought it was til I needed to get it done). Im assuming your AF is late for you to be doing the tests, but if it isnt then you need to wait till it is late, sometimes it shows up on the same day as your AF is due but other times it takes a week.

Hcg is usually detectable in blood a day or two before urine. Blood tests are generally considered more reliable as they aren't subject to changes in hydration levels which effect the concentration of hcg in the urine.
Also it def possible to get a positive before AF is due.. the average 1st positive is 13.6 days however, lots of people get them earlier. My one for this baby was 9dpo.

melissag wrote: If its showing in your urine then it will show on the blood test, and vice versa, if your urine is negative then the blood test will be negative. The blood test isnt actually more sensitive than a urine test ( I thought it was til I needed to get it done). Im assuming your AF is late for you to be doing the tests, but if it isnt then you need to wait till it is late, sometimes it shows up on the same day as your AF is due but other times it takes a week.

I thought AF had arrived but it is different to normal so that is what has made me think about all of this again after thinking it was fine from being told that hcg was 5 so negative.

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freckle wrote: melissag wrote: If its showing in your urine then it will show on the blood test, and vice versa, if your urine is negative then the blood test will be negative. The blood test isnt actually more sensitive than a urine test ( I thought it was til I needed to get it done). Im assuming your AF is late for you to be doing the tests, but if it isnt then you need to wait till it is late, sometimes it shows up on the same day as your AF is due but other times it takes a week. Hcg is usually detectable in blood a day or two before urine. Blood tests are generally considered more reliable as they aren't subject to changes in hydration levels which effect the concentration of hcg in the urine.

Dont want to confuse you, but most medical doctors (all the ones I have worked with and Ive worked with a lot) agree that a blood test isnt considered more reliable than the urine test. Thats why they dont routinely do a blood HCG level.

Do the urine test again and see what it says. You can still get AF when pregnant and its different to usual then maybe. Good luck.

If the test tonight is negative do I need to get another BT to check that it has returned to normal levels again? eg under 2?

Personally I would do another blood test if you are unsure and your last AF was different to usual.

My first preg I never got a positive on a urine so had a set of bloods to make sure.

My second preg I got a positive at 10DPO so didn't bother with bloods.

I tend to agree with Freckle in that bloods are more accurate in that urine HCG is subjective to time of day, concentration etc.

I got a +ive albeit faint HPT and my BT came as HCG 11... so by medical standards as freckle said not positive not negative.. turns out I was pregnant...

So to OP, I would get more bloods to see if the HCG has gone up...

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Poppet, the chemical that gives you the + result is HCG whish is at its strongest in the morning. You could test tomorrow morning to see what that test says while wating for the bloods to come back.