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If you had ME/CFS that got better when pregnant tell us what happened. And why you think things improved.
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Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin looks interesting @Hufsamor ,but like anything else that might help there are going to be side effects for anyone who tries it.
I've been looking at some graphs for how the levels of HCG change during pregnancy: Non pregnant levels are 55-200 ng/ml, 5 weeks 18- 7,340, 25-40 weeks 3,640-117,000. Levels drop to normal 'Shortly after birth'-whatever that means. Yes @WinterWren it could take time for the positive effect of 'Whatever it is' to take effect.
Estriol doesn’t rise much until the second trimester from what charts show, but I don’t know much about it.
Looking at the graphs (there are lots to choose from!) what is most striking is the level of variation. And even when the level drops it's still much higher than in non-pregnant. I've been reading upon HCG and there is much of interest. I will post a simple guide to what it does soon.But you’re right that it can stay very high throughout even if it is dropping. Lots of variation too.