9 weeks pregnant and depressed

[Annelouise]

I am 9 weeks pregnant and very depressed. i suffer with long erm depression and to get pregnant my GP took me off my medication. I am now very low and can't leave the house or cope with my toddler. Has any one else suffered like this and is there anything i can take.

You can take ADs while pregnant (I did from 13 weeks)

bump, I know there are some you can take, but dont know the names... can anyone help? hope you're ok.

it is possible to take ADs when PG. I took Prozac from 30 weeks. Go back to see your GP, and see what they suggest and make it clear how much your quality of life is suffering from the depression. The doctors just don't know enough about ADs to say that they are 100% safe during PG, so they tend to err on the side of caution (as with prescribing any drugs during PG). When making a decision about prescribing ADs docs tend to work on a case by case basis - i.e. balancing potential risk of medication to the baby against the potential risk to the mother of the depression going untreated/effect on quality of life of the mother.

I was on Prozac when I unexpectedly fell pregnant. My GP immediately weaned me off them so I was off them by the time I was about 5 months with the view to immediately putting me back on them when the baby was born. Fortunately, my depression was not severe and I have managed to stay off them up til now. Talk to your GP. They do err on the side of caution with taking any medication during pregnancy obviously, but as mummytosteven says, your GP will weigh up risk/quality of life for you.

Any chance you going back to GP and asking him/her to review you. Or maybe seeing another GP in the practice for a 2nd opinion.

sorry that you are so :(