Coming off AD's TTC

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Is anyone else in the same boat of coming off anti-depressants when TTC? There's a lot of talk of depression during pregnancy and after birth. I lowered my dose a couple of months ago and came off completely a couple of weeks ago. The doc said I didn't have to, but I was unhappy with possible side effects. So, here I am hating my new job, finding mornings harder than usual, feeling a complete failure generally and trying to get pregnant. I'm not in dire straits, not tears 24/7, just not doing as well as I was, not as settled or coping as I was. Wondering what the rest of the world has done in my shoes? Stay on them or come off?

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Maybe you need to consider whether you would be against continuing your meds while ttc if your health condition was a physical one. Perhaps you also need to weigh up the benefits and risks - because I would have thought that the risks of not taking them are at least as high.

I've never had depression but do have stomach problems and have been on medication through my pregnancy (which obviously no-one wants). I am assuming you are told the meds are believed to be safe?

I started them again last night, it just all reached boiling point yesterday. Sanity will return. It is a hard decision re meds. I'd have said stay on them to anyone else, I just always think I'll be able to manage - recipe for disaster if ever I have heard one. Thank you

I wouldn't be able to manage without mine. I think it is harder though with ADs because you feel that it is somehow your fault, but it isn't. Depression is a health condition like any other. Take care of yourself.