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HCG injection can help women with fertility problems.

In order to increase the chances of becoming pregnant, HCG injection is given along with other fertility drugs.

HCG is the pregnancy hormone that maintains the corpus luteum producing progesterone when conception occurs.

The injection is administered in two ways based on your body’s condition and type. It can be given just under the skin i.e. subcuteously or in muscles i.e. intramuscularly. The timing of the HCG injection administration is very important.

But, before going to take the injection, it is very important to inform your healthcare provider if you have any of the following conditions:

• Asthma
• Kidney disease
• Ovarian cysts
• Ovarian cancer
• Heart disease
• Seizures
• Allergic reaction to HCG, any medicines, preservatives, foods, hormones, or dyes
• If you are already pregnant
• Breastfeeding
• Migraines

Usage of HCG injection:

Usually, HCG injection is given to thigh or buttock muscles. This injection can be given by your healthcare provider at a specified day of your fertility treatment cycle. You will be administered with this injection as one dose per cycle.

Ask your doctor about how to inject HCG on your own. He will explain the procedure.

hCG is human chronic gonadotropin, a peptide hormone released in your pregnancy.

Mainly this hormone is developed by the cells that form the placenta in your pregnancy.

In hospitals, hCG test is performed to check the levels of this hormone in urine or blood to confirm whether your are pregnant or not.

Abnormally, certain tumors can also produce hCG. The tumors are especially that come from sperm or egg.

Generally the levels of this hormone can be tested in women who may have abnormal tissue growth in the uterus, a cancer in her uterus, molar pregnancy and any other condition that is other than normal pregnancy.

You need to undergo various hCG tests if you have experienced a miscarriage, in order to make sure that there is not molar pregnancy.

The levels of this hormone can first be detected by a blood test about 11 days after conception and about 12-14 days after conception by a urine test. Generally the levels of hcg will be doubled for every 72 hours.

Key things you need to know about hCG:

• In the case of normal pregnancies, the levels of hCG will be doubled for every 48-72 hours. As your pregnancy due date comes nearer, this period will increase and the level will be doubled to about every 96 hours.