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Post by Melba freeman on Jun 17, 2014 19:13:30 GMT
Any help from anyone. My 25 yeAr old daughter who has been on meds for add since 5 is married and wants to start a family. She really can't manage to hold down a job and home without meds but there has been no research about pregnancy on ADHD meds -other than in rate - which is not encouraging. She has also been told that the likelihood of having a child with ADHD is much greater.
Has anyone been through the same thing -taken meds for ADHD and got pregnant with no ill effects. Think she will have to ,lower dose as precaution (as rats developed bone deformity) - she is finding it very hard to cope.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2014 22:57:01 GMT
There is not going to be any research into taking meds in pregnancy (it's considered unethical) - there will be people who have taken meds but the outcome is not statistically significant so no conclusions have been drawn, apart from conjecture from animal studies.
It's seen as unwise to continue taking meds while pregnant.
Since ADHD is usually genetic in nature then the chances of the child having it are quite strong.
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Post by elements on Jun 18, 2014 2:47:45 GMT
Hi Melba I remember reading/watching something many years ago which suggested the baby's from drug abusers (heroin, I think) were born without obvious problems but the baby's of alcohol abusers always had both physical and mental impairments. I'm not saying it's fine to take hardcore drugs or that a glass of wine might mess a kid up for life but there may be things we all do which are, potentially, far more dangerous for the foetus than the stimulants we take. That said, my opinion would be to put the drugs down for 10 months (9 + 1 month for breast feeding) and build in extra support from friends/family/etc. As a mother-to-be, I would have no qualms telling my employer about my ADHD+pregnancy and expecting their full cooperation. If things start to go awry, the job is second to her health and well being. I say this knowing how important jobs are to us lot. It can give us a sense of worth which is hard to find elsewhere. Is her husband well prepared? The avoidance of stress is paramount! Hope it goes well for them
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Post by blaze on Jun 18, 2014 15:25:44 GMT
I took strattera and it cms w a slight miscarrige risk so it was a no brainer. I was v ill during pregnany (twins) so was off work sick so have no way of knowing if i cd have coped w out meds. I bf for 2.5 yrs, again w out strattera, i did take ritilin for a while as its considered.safe according to the research but i dont like it. Wd have dearly loved to have my strattera back but bf the girls was most important to me. Oh deals w running the.house, and we paid a cleaner.
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Post by roland on Jun 30, 2014 6:48:12 GMT
1. After a quick search I only found 1 article that directly addressed taking methylphenidate during pregnancy and that only covered one aspect as follows: A Danish study was conducted into first trimester exposure to methylphenidate to try and estimate the risk of major congenital malformations and it was published in January of this year in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. The authors of the study came to the following conclusion: Unfortunately it seems that only the abstract for the above article is free, you need to subscribe to the journal to see the full text. J Clin Psychiatry. 2014 Jan;75(1):e88-93.10.4088/JCP.13m08708. 2. Since stimulant medications are also used to treat narcolepsy, I did a search on that and found an article giving the results of a very small study that was published in 2012 in the Sleep Disorders journal that concluded: The free full text of the article is available from Sleep Disorders here: Sleep Disorders Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 308952, 8 pages3. Another Danish study into possible links between the use of antidepressants during pregnancy and the risk of ADHD was published in the BMJ last year that concluded as follows: . Free full text article available here: BMJ Open 2013;3:e003507 4. And finally Professor Anita Thapar and others last year published a review into the causes of ADHD and like everything else about ADHD they have concluded that the relationship between risk factors (genetics, environmental risks such as lead, PCBs, diet, smoking, stress, and ADHD) is complicated and no direct cause has yet been found. Here are a few quotes from the article: The free full-text version of the article is available here: Practitioner Review: What have we learnt about he causes of ADHD? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 54:1 (2013), pp 3–16 It might be a good idea for her to discuss medications and pregnancy thoroughly with her ADHD specialist and to start thinking about what extra support she would find helpful (e.g. cleaners as someone else suggested and anything else that would be appropriate for her and also for her husband).
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