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Red face Jan 23, 2020 at 11:09 AM
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I have panic disorder, severe depression, and generalized and social anxiety disorder. I have been on Xanax for four years, antidepressants don’t really help me, and I take Gabapentin to sleep. Dependent on it. Before I get pregnant I want to be off all of this but I have read that anxiety can negatively affect a growing fetus. I am terrified. My anxiety is very hard to get under control without medication. When I was unmedicated I had panic attacks CONSTANTLY.

Has anyone here taken ANY meds while pregnant? What was your personal experience with that and mental illness during pregnancy?

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There are some meds that are safer than others during a pregnancy.

Ideally you need to get a handle on your struggles way before you start trying for a baby.

What coping skills are you using to help ease your struggles?

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We are waiting until I am in a healthier place, but I want to plan ahead of time and hear what meds (if any) others were on during pregnancy.

I am using meds, therapy, exercise and meditation. I have tried TMS for treatment resistant depression but it did not help.
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I was not on meds while pregnant. I will share, though, that my niece has crippling anxiety. She remained on Ativan during both of her pregnancies. All was well, and the kids are just fine.

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hey @LittleEarthquakes:
The biggest issue I had was the "baby blues" extending beyond the birth of my third child. She was born in August and I had been off meds ( I shouldnt have been) and in October I was hospitalized for four days and the cocktail they gave me saved my life,

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When I was considering having a child my pdoc said I had to stay on meds no matter what the whole time and into breastfeeding. I’m on abilify...it’s category C.....the whole class of APs is category C with the exception of latuda which she said was just too new to have the same warning. While I have not had a child and probably won’t she said others who were bipolar did and their kids turned out ok on the same regimen.

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