Monitoring HCG

I went in for bloodwork this morning. They want to monitor my hcg levels to make sure they reset back to negative. Levels were at 144 today. Under different circumstances that would be a great number but at this point it's just ugh. Go away.

While I was in the chair getting blood drawn, another patient walks past and says to me, "Hey I recognize you! We had a transfer the same day in April. How are you??"  It took me a minute to realize she was talking to me. I'm usually really good with faces but I didn't recognize her, likely because I was nervous and wasn't paying attention on transfer day. I, on the other hand, am very recognizable in my tichel. I said Hi and told her I sadly had a d&c last week. She said hers didn't stick at all and she was starting IVF 2 and that she's heard for sure people have success with their second cycle. I told her I was just coming off IVF 5 and wished her luck. I remember the naivete of being so sure it would work.

My doctor called with the results from the d&c. They tested the tissue and it came back as normal. They also confirmed the gender, which we knew from the PGD testing. I was kind of hoping that they would give us new information. That maybe it wouldn't be the normal embryo, so that we'd have some sort of answer or so that the normal one was safe in the freezer just waiting to get transferred. He couldn't say for sure whether this would happen again or what the stats are. Chromosomal abnormalities increase with age, but that isn't/shouldn't be a factor for me yet. Even if there is something wrong with the embryo, there's no additional testing we could do and there are just no answers.  

I asked him if we should schedule a follow up appointment. He said we know each other so well that if we have a question I should just email him, no need to wait for an appointment to come in. Upon some prompting he also reiterated that he doesn't have any other suggestions of something different to do next time. He said once my hcg level goes down to negative my body will need another few weeks for the cycle to kick in. Just telling us information we know already.

So no actual news, just a lot of confirmation about what we already know.