Jen Heeter asked:

just started and something made me take the test.. just my gut instint.. came back positive.. my last injection was this am.. and took the test in the eve aroud 9pm approx 12 hrs later.. came back positive just needing answers..

Amanda asked:

I have been taking 25 mlu injections of hcg for weight loss. I didn’t take the shot today, and I got a faint, but positive hpt. I am at 14 dpo. What would you suggest??? I already called DR, but they want me to wait till AF is late. I can’t take the suspense!!!

Kelly O asked:

I have heard these are performed by a doctor to reset the hypothalmus gland. Anyone with info I am interested.

Shronn asked:

I need some advice!! I’m changing jobs again (the clinic I work for is going out of business and I have a new venture but, like I said, I’d love to get your opinions on a few things. I know..I’m long winded here….

I’m not really sure where to start. A year ago we started doing the hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) protocol as a weight loss aid. Now that the clinic I’m working for is closing (as of this week), there’s another Dr. here in town that would like me to head/start an hCG program there at her clinic. We’ve talked on the phone briefly and the doctor I currently work for has talked to her for me as well.

Ooooookay, we have been the only clinic with in a 40 mile radius that’s done the hCG program and it has done really well and I do most of the work. I order the hCG (under the doc’s name) from a compounding pharmacy, mix it, draw it up into injections, package it and consult with the patients before, during, and after the program. We offer 4 and 6 week program lengths at a time….. The doctor does the initial consultation and I take it from there with weekly weigh-ins and I give the pt’s my cell to text or call anytime, my email, and my work number (24 hr nutrition services). The doctor told me I can take all the literature materials and protocols after we close here.

This other dr. in town wants me to rent out one of the offies in her building for the program. She wants to be involved in educating the pt’s and distribution of the hCG injection shots and B12 shots.

She asked me to “crunch some numbers” and come up with a percentage that I need to make from the hcg…. Her first offer was 20%…I think that’s low and the dr I work for think it’s low…. but I have nooo idea what’s fair..

I just need to get my head wrapped around the main points…. She told me to take into consideration that I’ll be using one of her exam rooms, she wants to hire a full time receptionist at minimum wage for her clinic and she says that same receptionist can do my scheduling, internet service, website advertisement, online auto pay, and a phoneline. She also said that I should reserve some money for my own assistance in the future…

She said to come up with a “worst case senario” of what I can earn a month….

I would be coming into her already established business (medical spa/salon) and bring a protocol that works, all the protocol materials and a long list of pt’s ready to start the diet (about 20) and a growing list. We’ve been getting about 6 calls a day in regards to the hCG program because it’s spreading like wild fire here (ha).

I will need her one day a week for consultations and distributions and I will probably work mon, wed, fri with new consults…

I also have the current dr I work for, and another one whp’s a friend of mine that have both told me they would be willing to be the doctor if I wanted to start my own (very small) weight loss clinic).

Uuuuuugh…. What’s fair?? What kind of questions do I need to ask??

As usual, any advice would be great…

BRIAN M asked:

Can anyone tell me info on HCG injections…. Is it really
safe ?

findeight asked:

What if I was only taking drops that I would put in food or water and not an actual injection? This is for a friend of mine and I had the details wrong. Thanks!

sweetie_pie2000_05 asked:

I’m currently taking the hCG injections for weight loss. I’m taking my shot daily and was wondering if it would help with my infertility. I have heard many different things along those lines. Some people have told me that no, it wouldn’t help, where others have told me that it would and may cause multiples. Does anyone on here have any experience with hCG for weight loss and fertility?

Jesse H asked:

I am taking HCG injections for weight loss and am a male. Does anyone know if I could take a home pregnancy test to ensure the hormone is in my system? If a test will show the levels in a male’s system; how long until the hormone will show up? I have taken 3 injections so far and my pregnancy test came up negative so I am wondering if the HCG is in my system. Thanks in advance!

Lovely Stacy asked:

So… I made a status of mine on facebook stating that I wanted to lose weight & that I was in search of some diet/exercise partners to follow a 6wk plan with me.

I received a comment from my cousin (that I hardly ever talk to or see) & she began to tell me that her & a friend of hers is doing a 6wk program themselves and she called it the HCG Organic diet.

Now never before this have I ever even heard of this diet until she told me.

She told me that she has done this diet before & lost 40lbs in 6wks.

After searching this diet & reading reviews on it I must say that I am still a skeptic.

The diet consist of HCG injections or taking drops daily in addition to a 500 calorie a day organic diet & you don’t have to exercise.

For the record… HCG stands for Human Chorionic Gonadotropins: The major hormone secreted by the placenta. In the early stages of pregnancy.

As I have told her… It sounds like a starvation diet to me & I am very awear of the starvation diet & the consequences because I’ve did this diet for 15 days before & I lost 25lbs in that short amount of time then after the 15 days I began to slowly introduce foods back to my body but the end result was that my tummy seemed to be the place on me where it began to store fat for it didn’t know if it would ever be starved again.

I ended up gaining all of that weight back plus more.

I explained this to my cousin & she stated & I quote… After you complete the 6 weeks you continue to eat the organic foods for another 6 weeks and you slowly introduce other foods back into your diet. If you jump back into eating regular foods after the 6 weeks of course you will gain the weight back. You are (in simple form) resetting your metabolism in the 2nd six weeks to keep the weight off.

So I said to her… So is the diet actually a 12wk program? Tell me cuz? Are you hungry on this diet? Do you get dizzy? & why do a diet that would make you have to reset your metabolism afterwards just as you would need to do after a starvation diet? Im sorry but it’s pretty much sounding like a starvation diet to me except you get 500 calories more than you actually would on a starvation diet. Why not just do a organic diet, not combining it with the HCG injections that you are doing because there is no scientific evidence that the HCG even helps with the weight loss process & instead just exercise?

She says… When you eat a low calorie diet without the hcg you lose structural fat instead of the abnormal fat and your body needs the structural fat.

Yet I read a review that stated that this is not true & although this person did lose an excessive amount of weight he also lost muscle. & in his exact words he says… In my opinion, the HCG Diet is just like any other starvation diet out there today, as far as end results. Only 59% of my weight loss was actual fat. Included in that fat loss was a drop in my visceral fat– this is needed structural fat, the kind that HCG is supposed to prevent. I am here to tell you that it most certainly DID NOT protect me from losing vital fat. And it certainly didn’t protect me from losing vital muscle.

Also I read where some of the sellers are not selling you exactly what you think you are buying. The HCG is not cheap & you could be getting scammed. Wouldn’t it upset you if you found out after you spent hundreds of dollars that it really wasn’t HCG in the bottle & it was something else like maybe saline???

So of course I’d love to lose 40lbs in 6wks but I am asking all that has done this diet & it has been well over 12wks since to give me your review on it because as I said I am still skeptical???

Truth_matters asked:

I know what it can do for weight loss but am interested to know exactly how it works for trying to get pregnant?
all it does is help release healthy eggs?…..what if a woman already does that on her own?…..just curious..and totally hypothetical.