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Seizures and getting pregnant??
Hey ladies. Okay, so I have now had 2 seizures within 5 months of eachother. I am taking Keppra and it was going fine, I forgot to take my meds for a whole day and had a seizure valentine's night. The one prior to that happened 4 days before my wedding. I have noticed that when I do have these seizures it seems to be caused when I am pretty stressed. This is my fear, we want to start trying to get pregnant within a year, but these seizures have freaked us out. I mean, a pregnant body is pretty stressed usually, right, and it takes a toll on our bodies, hormones, nerves etc.
Does anyone else have seizures and had a baby? I guess I'm just looking for a little reassurance to make me feel better about this. I now will start crying because I am worried that my body won't let me keep a baby. I seriously never thought that I truly wanted one so bad until I started thinking that I may not be able... Any thoughts???
Re: Seizures and getting pregnant??
I really think you should speak with a doctor or maybe even find some sort of seizure support group.
A family friend of my MIL is going through a really rough time right now because of her seizures and having a baby. Basically the friend had a child. When the child was about 3 weeks old she had a seizure and dropped the baby. And now CPS is involved and she doesn't have custody of her child.
But in your paragraphs alone I can tell you two are different people. She had the baby knowing that she wouldn't have the father around and knowing that she wouldn't have help if something like a seizure happened. Her pregnancy went fine for the exception of getting into a car crash because she was driving and had a seizure while pregnant.
Again talking to a doctor and a support group would be your best option.
I have epilepsy. I've talked to 3 neuros about being pregnant while on Tegretol. I was told to take folic acid and call my neuro if I have a seizure. I haven't been pregnant yet, but H and I are headed there hopefully in about a year or so.
IME neuros and gynos and family drs all know next to nothing about epilepsy and pregnancy. They all tell me to ask the other Dr. I wish I was joking. It's been really frustrating. I've been doing my own research and advocating for myself a lot.
GL, you're not alone.
Thank you! you're right, but he says it's fine and there is a very small chance of having problems with the pregnancy and birth defects, claimed almost same as any normal person would have, and just said that I would have to go to a high risk gyno. I have just been wondering if anyone has gone thru this. I know people have seizures and babies, I just was looking for a piece of mind... Good luck to you too!!! Its scary. Seizures are so unknown, they don't actually know what causes mine exactly. I have been just figuring out that its high stress alcohol and not taking my medicine. Or that's what had happend with my most recent one.... I think