To stop taking folic acid when TTC ?

[parentinghelp1]

TTC is becoming a bit of a sour part of my life.

I just want it to go away. People say stop focusing on it but I'm finish taking daily folic acid is a constant reminder.

Part of me does want to continue having unprotected sexual but forget about TTC but having to take folic acid every day is making it impossible. It's the one thing that reminds me every morning of what I'm trying to do.

Would it be bad to stop taking it and get on with my life, if I fall pregnant start taking it from then?

@Bizawit

OP ignore all the judgemental scaremongering comments. Ttc is so so hard. Women all over the world have babies without taking folic acid pills. I never took folic acid while I was ttc. You Do what you need to do to get through these hard times and block out the noise. Look after your mental health- it’s important too. Just eat a healthy diet as that will help you feel better in lots of ways, and be protective for the feotus if you do get pregnant xxx

Judgemental scaremongering? My baby boy is dead, because of the damage done by spina bifida. Instead of planning his nursery, I planned his funeral. He lived for an hour and a half and I will forever ask myself what I did wrong, what could I have done differently, why me. I ate a healthy diet, exercised, took my vitamins. Sometimes even that isn't enough.

What you have, and what has been evident in this thread, is survivor bias. Because I can promise you that if you'd been through what I have, you wouldn't type those things.

Neural tube defects are serious and catastrophic and taking a women's multivitamin daily is the price you pay to lower the odds.

@parentinghelp1

Thanks all, and sorry for those also have had losses (I've had two now so can empathise how it feels) and also to those dealing with infertility.

I have just had enough of TTC. It's horrible. It's making me not want to embark on this journey to be honest it seems troublesome.

Why out myself through this bullshit?

When I'm actually quite happy with my life as it is. I feel like it's society trying to tell me otherwise.

If this is how you feel, I'd definitely recommend taking a break from TTC in its entirety. Explore the feelings around it a bit more- is it just TTC you don't like, or do you really think you just want kids because society tells you you should?

I think you have to think about how you’d feel if you stopped taking it then fell pregnant and suffered complications because you hadn’t been taking it.

OP ignore all the judgemental scaremongering comments that is extremely insulting. No one is trying to judge or scare the OP. People are sharing their real experiences and doing their best to help OP. Lots of us on this thread have probably been in the same position of struggling with TTC and that daily reminder. It is understandable that taking folic acid daily is a painful reminder, it was for me. But posters are simply saying that it is important to try and keep taking it and offering suggestions of ways to make it easier.

@HeyFloof thank you for sharing your experience

@Learnthroughplay3

Not everyone can absorb Folic acid, this is the cause for lots of miscarriages the bio available form of folic acid is L methylfolate, everyone can absorb this form I know its not what you asked but might help some people

This! My clinic tested me for the MTHFR mutation, which I have, so as a result folic acid is actually toxic for me because being synthetic the mutation I have means I cannot process it into the bioavailable form and it builds up clogging my receptors. I have to take folate instead and avoid all folic acid, which is the bioavailable form. 40% of Europeans have this mutation so it’s toxic for quite a few people. The flour thing is going to backfire sadly.

• folate or l-methylfolate is the bioavailable form (folic acid is synthetic). Edit function needed!

Avoiding folic acid and taking methylfolate instead (on the advice of my Fertility consultant might I add) actually reduced quite a few of my ME and migraine symptoms, folic acid was making me ill. It also masks a folate deficiency by floating around in the blood but being unusable to the body.

Note that folate may need balancing with other supplements too so anyone reading this do read up on MTHFR methylation and undermethylation.

I was taking Perfectil every day for skin hair and nails, it has folic acid in but it's just a multivitamin! My nails got really strong and eventually I got pregnant 👍 I too got fed up with all my ttc supplements after a year of nothing! I still take it everyday!

@Berkeys

Avoiding folic acid and taking methylfolate instead (on the advice of my Fertility consultant might I add) actually reduced quite a few of my ME and migraine symptoms, folic acid was making me ill. It also masks a folate deficiency by floating around in the blood but being unusable to the body.

Note that folate may need balancing with other supplements too so anyone reading this do read up on MTHFR methylation and undermethylation.

Very very good advice, I was doing this until I threw the towel in 😂 as soon as I got preg I switched back to methylfolate/ vitamin d and a pre-natal strength DHA (Omega 3)