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Post by littlelotty on Nov 28, 2010 0:11:18 GMT
Hi All
I haven't been on here for months if not about a year now. I have been trying for a baby since february and thought we would never have another!
I have found out today that i am pregnant about 4 weeks so really early days. I am on Serteraline 50mg and worried now about losing the baby and taking the meds! I consulted with the doctor back in January before we started trying to consider cutting down or stopping but they advised me to carry on.
Now i am acutally pregnant i am really scared about taking it! I want this pregnancy to be so different to my first and determined NOT to get PND as it was so bad last time that i am amazed we have wanted another to be honest!
Any advice would be great ladies and sorry to come back just to ask you all something!
We aren't telling anyone yet apart from parents - seem to be scared i am going to lose this baby after trying for what feels like a long time!
littlelotty xx
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Post by Hopeful on Nov 28, 2010 0:20:58 GMT
Hi LL,
That's lovely news!
Have you found out if you can take that if pregnant - it's just that I know from a friend that she took antids right the way through . Not sure which ones though.
Hey, forewarned is forearmed and we're all here if you need us!
Hopeful
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Post by littlelotty on Nov 28, 2010 8:33:41 GMT
Hi Hopeful
Yes i can take these throughout the pregnancy - well that it what they tell me! i am going to go to the doctors and ask again if it is safe!
still does not feel real!
littelotty xx
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Post by wanagetoverthis on Nov 28, 2010 11:33:06 GMT
Hi littlelotty
My advice would be to not feel defeated before you've started.
Tell yourself the PND was last time and it doesn't automatically mean this time will be the same... as every pregnancy (and hormone chg's that come with it) are different so try and be positive and enjoy your pregnancy... as it's not a repeat of the last chapter, it's a whole new and exciting chapter for your family and this time you're going to enjoy it!!
Don't let that horrible illness take away our joy of having another beautiful baby and enjoying it all.
As for tablets, I don't know the answer but I do think you have to be comfortable with what you're taking, as the last thing you need is something to make you feel bad about yourself for!
Speak to the HV about your feelings, sure it's completely safe to take them as doc said, but it's how you feel too and what you feel is best for you and your baby.
Lotsalove
N xxx
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Post by wanagetoverthis on Nov 28, 2010 11:33:54 GMT
Oops sorry... And CONGRATULATIONS!!!  Xxxx |
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Post by chica on Nov 28, 2010 12:52:32 GMT
Hi LL,
Huge Congratulations!! That is wonderful news, but I can appreciate why you are feeling scared. You did have a horrendous time last time, but that does not mean, that it will happen this time around. I have a friend, who suffered terribly with her first, and when she became pregnant with her 2nd she had the same fears as you, she was on fluoxetine throughout her whole pregnancy, and her little man turned out just fine, with no complications whatsoever, and in fact no return of the PNI either, she is actually now expecting her 3rd child.
So please, try not to worry yourself sick, speak with your GP and midwife, and get reassurance from them, I am sure they will keep a close eye on you, this time round will be different, you will have the knowledge of what happened last time, and so will the medical team looking after you, so if and I do stress the IF problems start, then they can be dealt with very quickly.
Sending you much love!
Chica
xxxx
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Post by wanagetoverthis on Nov 28, 2010 13:59:00 GMT
Great advice Chicca!! Xxx
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Post by Weeble on Nov 28, 2010 20:57:24 GMT
Hi little lotty, don't think we have met before. Have been around for the last eleven months. I have just had my third child eight weeks ago, I took fluoxetine throughout my pregnancy at quite a high dose, I would have been taking sertraline but I am allergic to it. My little man is fine, no problems from the drugs, I was taking paroxetine when I concieved.
When I read all the research I concluded if I was depressed my children would suffer more than the danger offered by the drugs. My obstetrician, psychiatrist and the local paeds consultant all told me large numbers of women take it during pregnancy with no probs. Congratulations on being pregnant again. Keep well.
Kat
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Post by Bookwormprincess on Nov 30, 2010 23:10:29 GMT
Hi there,
Congratulations!!
I do know how you feel as I felt horrible about taking medication when I was pregnant with my second and in the end, under the advise of a specialist team in Mother and Infant Mental Health I took anti-psychotics in the 3rd trimester and came off the anti-depressants, which in my view, definietly prevented me from becoming unwell for a 2nd time. It is slightly different with PP though, where the risk of a re-occurance is higher and nearly always needs medication to prevent a relapse. But all I would say is make sure you get good advise from all the health care teams around you and put a good care-plan in place that you carry around in your notes at all times, so that all the midwives, health visitors and obstetricians involved in your pre and post natal care know your history and the kind of support you need. If it would help you make a decision about medicaton, once you know all is ok with the pregnancy after the 12 week scan, or before come to think of it, I would ask your midwife to book an appointment with a peadiatrician at your local hospital so you can ask all the questions you need answered about the effect of the meds on the baby before and after birth, particularly about baby being monitored for withdrawel. My midwife and GP couldn't give me specifics and I felt so much better after talking to the neonatologist (pead for newborns). There is a weath of data about anti-depressant effects on unborn babies, not a lot for anti-psychotics though.
I do hope you can enjoy this pregnancy, but I know it will be hard for you not to fear the worst. If you look back at some of my posts you'll see how I was very up and down about "have I done the right thing having another baby" etc. But I can honestly say having another was the best thing I could ever have done as I have been totally well this time and so much more confident as a mother, simply because I now know how I would have felt had I not been seriously ill. To say it's amazing is an understatement! It can't give me back what I missed with my first, but it has definitely helped me take one more step towards healing for what happened the first time. I hope it's the same for you with your second, whatever decision you make about your medication.
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Post by littlelotty on Dec 3, 2010 16:29:43 GMT
Just an update, Went to the doctors on Wednesday and they decided to take me off anti-depressants completley because of the risk of congential heart problems with taking the meds in the first 12 weeks. My last tablet was on wednesday and just hope i don't drop down. They said if i do i will go straight back on the meds.
Brave decision but feel better not taking them at the moment and as the doctor said i am on a low dose so i should be ok. Also i talked about getting PND again and she felt i have done so well to deal with all the triggers that happened last time that it reduces the chances of me getting it again.
I have had a good week and just getting on with it really and waiting to feel pregnant as at the moment apart from being exhausted and feeling a bit sick i don't feel any different! Keep forgetting i am pregnant at times!
Very excited about having another one and cannot wait to start buying things and organising rooms etc!
Thanks for all your support
Littlelotty
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Post by wanagetoverthis on Dec 3, 2010 16:55:04 GMT
Ah that's great news!! So glad you feel good and yeh it does take a while to feel pregnant but you'll be wobbling about in no time!
N xxx
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Post by wanagetoverthis on Feb 21, 2011 20:18:09 GMT
Hi hun
How are you doing? Feeling preggers now?
Hope you're doing well xxx
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Post by nicola1712 on Feb 22, 2011 19:37:34 GMT
Hiya
Great to hear from you and sorry it has taken me so long to get round to you as well - congratualtions!
Hope you are doing ok - I felt the vey same, being on meds when preggers with S but he was fine, I stayed on as low a dose as poss throughout and just got to the end with the promise of more if I needed it once he was born! They kept a good eye on me throughout and afterwards and we had to stay in for 72 hours for his withdrawal symptoms but he was absolutely fine.
Come back soon and tell us how you are doing.
xxx
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