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Old Aug 22, 2012, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Eliza Jane View Post
You can get pregnant without feeling extremely guilty for taking meds.

Of course, you always have the option of compromising your own well-being by not taking (enough) meds. I managed to get the "best of both worlds" by taking an inadequate amount of meds: I got to feel guilty AND my mental health was destabilized.

EJ

I continued taking Lithium and Prozac for several weeks before discovering I was pregnant. My child is now 20.

I do worry about passing on the bp. He was diagnosed with ADHD and Asperger's when he was little, but I quit medicating him because I decided the doctors were wrong about both of us.
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