anyone on olanzapine / zyprexa for anxiety second trimester?

[FeelingBeautiful]

this is what my doc has advised but asked me to think about it over the weekend. risks to baby are: baby growing faster, withdrawals, and there are no studies on long term effects on babies brain. doc wants to put me on lowest dose but all that sounds terrifying to me. anyone else out there on this?

I am on olanzapine and 18 weeks pregnant. I have been on olanzapine for 4 years and it’s honestly changed my life. I only take a low dose. My doctor has advised I stay on it due to how severe my mental health problems are when not on it. All the research I have done suggests there is only a very tiny risk to baby.

@CleverQuacks thank you for your answer! my doctor suggested the lowest dose. did it help with your anxiety?

Yes, I honestly cannot say how much it changed my life. I had tried other medication in the past and nothing had worked so I wasn’t expecting this to work either. It took a few weeks for its full effect and at first it made me very hungry but that’s all settled down now

Just wondering what dose you are on? And has all gone well with your baby?

[quote FeelingBeautiful]@CleverQuacks thank you for your answer! my doctor suggested the lowest dose. did it help with your anxiety?[/quote]
@CleverQuacks just wondering what dose you are on? And has all gone well with your baby?

I took quetiapine (a different AAP but very similar to olanzapine) all the way through pregnancy.
When she was born we were kept in for 72h on a medication withdrawal pathway. She was checked every 4h and passed every one.
A couple of years ago there was a study on the effective of aaps on pregnancy and most were found to not significantly increase the risk (above baseline levels) of birth defects or complications.

mothertobaby.org/fact-sheets/olanzapine/