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Originally Posted by Passionscientist
I asked Maryanne about this question (Nurse at CORM here in Houston) and she said they will give you your beta if it's obvious you are pregnant (i.e. high first beta)...the waiting for the second beta is more for those who have low first initial betas (i.e. less than 10 or 15) and they normally would say it is negative. At our clinic, they consider less than 10 to be negative...but they also realize that they are doing their testing really early now so they need to be a little more relaxed in what they call "negative" or "chemical". So I would think that since Jenifer is already showing a BFP on her blood work they can tell her beta numbers to her.
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Hmmm, that's an odd way to deal with it. I think going back to telling everyone their Beta and if it was low then explaining what that means to those patients would be more professional. Maybe a lot of the patients don't know though and they don't have contact with other patients....so that won't be pressure for them. If I went in there for my first Beta though and they said "sorry, we can't tell you till the next one" I'd be even more sick knowing that they told the other girl hers, what's wrong with mine? Maybe just me though.
I'm glad that it's not going to be a study wide thing though....so my location will probably give me my numbers then or tell me it's negative....one less thing to worry about.