Canada
A 32-year-old female asked:
if hcg is 600 ml/iu on feb.26, when would i have been able to first test positive (...or been at 25 ml/iu) ? approximately.
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Dr. Dan Fisher answered
Internal Medicine 27 years experience
8 days prior: The doubling time of HCG is about 48 hours. Working backwards 600-300-150-75-38 gives 4 doublings therefore about 8 days.
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A 48-year-old member asked:
Do I need an prescription for hcg?
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Dr. Quang Nguyen answered
Specializes in Endocrinology
Yes: Human Chorionic Gonadotropin is a prescription drug. The other forms are now illegal. Please see the fda's link below.
http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm281333.htm.
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A 30-year-old member asked:
Do the hCG drop work and how?
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Dr. Robert Kwok answered
Pediatrics 33 years experience
No: The HCG diet has a person eating 500 calories a day for more than a month. That's just one big slice of pizza a day. A 4-month old baby eats 500 calories a day. Anybody on 500 calories a day is on a starvation diet and will lose weight. It doesn't sound safe. Extremely low calorie diets don't work because the weight comes back when one starts eating again. Long-term lifestyle changes are needed.
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A 41-year-old member asked:
Hcg serves as the basiis for what?
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Dr. Keith Hansen answered
Fertility Medicine 38 years experience
Hormone: Hcg is human Chorionic Gonadotropin and is made by the human placenta. It's production during pregnancy has resulted in the development of the pregnancy test: both blood and urine tests (including the over the counter tests). It can be used in fertility treatments for both females and males.
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A 47-year-old member asked:
Do they make an oral hCG drug?
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Dr. Brian Nguyen answered
Obstetrics and Gynecology 11 years experience
No: Solely an intramuscular injection because the molecule will no longer work after being broken down by stomach acids and metabolized by the liver.
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FL
A 21-year-old male asked:
Can HCG increase leydig cell count?
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Dr. Ramon Garcia-septien answered
Family Medicine 45 years experience
No: HIGH have many other benefits.
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