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Originally Posted by Moose72
I know that pregnancy tended to destabilize me. For others they never felt better. You'd want to be followed very closely during and post partum. What meds can you nurse on etc.
You should see if your feelings about your other kids are separate from wanting another baby. Really take a few weeks or months of sorting this through. If you're as fertile as you say, this short amount if time won't matter. You could even still look up sperm banks while you're thinking.
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It will take a while. Off Geodon - 1 month. Off Prozac - 1 month. Off Lithium - 3 months (yes, that long - I will give myself that long to see if I can manage). After three months off Lithium, if I can manage, I will ask the GP or my midwife (whoever charges less) to remove the IUD. And then, they say, it takes up to a whole YEAR to regain fertilitity. It is not like spacing your children with condoms - one day you do not put on a condom and voila, a pregnancy, no, after an iud it takes a while to recover.
So I have plenty of time to check whether this is the right move and to find a father. But tonight is my first dinner without Geodon
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Moose, for meds compatible with nursing, I will ask the p-doc. Maybe a bit of Seroquel is OK.
Oh, and med compliance. I need to be med compliant for my court case. But that is OK - next week I will give blood for Lithium levels which will take care of that for at least 6 months if not 12 months, and then... crossing those bridges when... I think med compliance means taking the drugs prescribed by the p-doc. If the p-doc starts prescribing fewer drugs because I tell him that I am trying to conceive, I will still be med compliant. But at any rate, it is too early for that now.