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Dr. Andrew Rynne
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Dr. Andrew Rynne

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I Am 43 Years Old And Pregnant For The First

I am 43 years old and pregnant for the first time. I suffer from severe panic attack, depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia and bipolar disorder. And on top of it I also had a very bad Hypothyroidism until it became somewhat under control just recently with help of synthroid medication. Before I got pregnant I used to be prescribed Zoloft 60mg, Neurontin 600mg/3x/day and klonopin 1mg 3x/day. Once I found out that I was pregnant I tapered out of Neurontin completely, I switched from Zoloft to Celexa and reduced it to 10mg/day and I reduced my klonopin to 1 mg/day and I am on 112 of levothyroxine (for my thyroid). I am now 8 weeks pregnant and I am very worried primarily of the effects klonopin will have on my baby. I tried to stop completely, but panic attacks became so severe. I had them 3-4 times/day, which I was told is also not good for
the developing fetus. I read so many different opinions about benzodiazepines on the fetus. Some say it's perfectly safe, some that it's awful. I try to take the very minimum: 0.5 in the morning and 0.5 during the day. Can you please let me know what you think of this? Thank you
posted on Wed, 24 Dec 2014
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