I am pregnant with my first and super excited! I am also epileptic, which means I have special concerns. I was planning on weaning my baby off of the medication by decreasing breast milk and increasing formula over about eight weeks. Any other epileptic moms out there that have dealt with breastfeeding while taking epilepsy medication? I'd love to hear about your experience :-)
Re: Any other epileptic moms breastfeeding?
@LandS2016
Sorry but who are you?
Married: 07-2014
TTC #1: Since November 2015
Restarted TTC "count" Oct. 2016
due to previous issues.
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BFP: 11/4/2016
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BTW - I love your screen name! It makes me want to respond, "Say that ten times fast!"
Honest question here, because as I mentioned in the thread you refer to, I am seriously struggling with the technological aspect of this forum, how are you able to see something like that? I literally just found the "Notifications" button today. Props to your skills with this thing!
If you have a clinical diagnosis of epilepsy, you must know that there is a large number of antiepileptic medications available that needs to be tailored to your specific case by an experienced epileptologist (subspecialty of neurology). Each medication (or combination of medications) is very different from one another in terms of side effect profiles. In particular with regards to breastfeeding, but more importantly with regards to pregnancy and effects on the unborn baby. Since you are currently 20+ weeks pregnant, I very much hope that this is something you discussed with your neurologist. It all depends on what class your particular medication is considered.
There is no blanket type answer to your question. The specialists you should be seeing are an epileptologist and potentially a MFM since epilepsy is considered high risk in certain circumstances. If you don't like your doctor, find one you like and are willing to trust. Are you looking for recommendations for doctors? That depends on your area.
If you plan to stick around, I would suggest reading the "read this first" thread that is pinned at the top and doing an introduction post in the intros thread (also pinned).
To directly answer your question once you post anyone can go back and review your post history, no matter what board it was posted on. Since we've had issues with random people asking blanket questions across multiple boards to see who 'bites' it is common for members to check post history. This also gives us an idea of how active you've been on a particular month board.
@Rae1 gave you a great explanation of how our board works and why these types of posts are discouraged. This is a great community- I hope you will get a feel for how the board works, post more, and get to know us all so we can also get to know you.