Prescribing in pregnancy?

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I keep being told I can't be prescribed to as I'm pregnant. Is this true? How can I fight it? Genuinely don't know how I'm going to cope without medication. Thanks

Prescribed what kind of medication and who is refusing?

And were you already on the medication you want prescribing?

You'd benefit from seeing someone from perinatal mental health.

Do you mean antidepressants? If that is the case then some can be prescribed in pregnancy. I had to stop taking Sertraline when pregnant with DC2 but I wasn't coping. GP referred me to the psychiatric antenatal clinic and the consultant recommenced me on them.

Antipsychotic or mood stabiliser sorry forgot to say

Then ask to be referred to your Perinatal MH Team or else your hospital might have a specialist MH antenatal maternity team who can help. But to answer your first question, it isn’t true that you can’t be prescribed as you are pregnant. It might be different medication to before, if you were on anything before your pregnancy, and it might also come with certain risks but a psychiatrist will be able to look at all the medication available and find the most suitable where the benefits outweigh the risk.

If your midwife or GP won’t refer you, speak to your hospital’s PALs team and ask to be referred.

Did you start Sertraline during pregnancy. What was the outcome?

Ask to be referred to a perinatal psychiatrist. I'm bipolar and take quetiapine. My GP got a consult from a psychiatrist prior to me starting to conceive to see if was safe for me to stay on and they said that for my circumstances it would be safer to stay on the medication than to risk a relapse. It obviously depends on your specific risk factors and how far along you are - sodium valporate can't be taken in pregnancy and lithium can cause issues in the first trimester but there are other options available.
It depends on how well your doctor keeps up to date with the research for example it was only a couple of years ago that there was sufficient data on quetiapine to determine that there isn't an increased risk when a study of 900 women was released.
Good luck!