Thanks ladies, sorry you are all a member of the same club, but nice to meet others nonetheless! Congrats to you all on your pregnancies
I’ve been very lucky to have the means for private medical, and so I’ve had great advice from my consultants for pre TTC planning and now just checked in now we felt (post 3 blood tests, although pre viability scan) that we could say, at least for now, that I’m pregnant
My fertility doc referred me to see a colleague of his who literally wrote the book on prescribing in pregnancy, a consultant obstetric physician who specialises in the management of maternal medical disorders in pregnancy.
Good news is that he will hopefully now be able to treat me on the NHS - as once the GP refers me to the hospital where he is part of the antenatal team (UCH), I will be in the system, and will be referred to his obstetric neurology specialist clinic.
He said tramadol could potentially be reintroduced in a second trimester, but had confirmed what he had said before that nothing except co-codamol was advisable in the first trimester. I’d tapered off everything before my embryo transfer, so thankfully was able to avoid withdrawal (which I’ve had in the past when I came off it too quickly)
wonky hope you’re getting some relief and glad to hear you’ve been so well looked after
sepa interesting - the Dr told me said it wasn’t a problem to take meds while breastfeeding, although different meds may be different. He said many doctors were way too cautious and that in his experience they encouraged women to breastfeed as the amount excreted in breastmilk was so small, particularly compared to what was transmitted across the placenta
Tattie I’m on lamotrigine, and (touch wood) haven’t had a seizure since Nov 14. Yes, I’d read about haemodilution but it was interesting as both the neurologist and obstetric physician said if I was likely to have a seizure after being seizure free for so long, it was likely to be the first trimester. Reassuringly I was told exactly the same, that unless I was in status epilepticus or fell off the top of a tall building, a baby would be unlikely to come to any harm with a seizure
I am indeed on the 5mg folic acid, and have been for about a year now, so fingers crossed that plus the low risk profile of lamotrigine will help to mitigate against neural tube defects etc
As I understand it, as an epileptic (and doubtless with my buggered back - technical term!!) I’m likely to be referred for consultant led antenatal care, is this right? I never looked up what would happen in terms of antenatal because my fertility prognosis was so poor, no one expected my IVF to work!!
Hope you’re all doing OK and having lovely weekends xx