For the last few weeks, I've been feeling a little strange. I was putting it down to the change in my meds, but I did a pregnancy test, just to rule that out before I went to the GP. SHOCK!! It was positive, I'm pregnant (number 4!/number 6 between me & my partner). I'm no longer taking topamax or epilim, when I saw my neurologist (before I found out, I only found out last night), he took me off everything except the Gabapentin. I'm on 1200mg/day of that. What are the possible effects of gabapentin on a foetus? Even my pharmacist has no advice, It's too new over here. HELP!! Should I take a larger than normal dose of folic acid? I CAN'T wait til monday, need SOME advice now. Very 'head in the air' at the moment, as we had not planned any more children for the foreseeable future, in fact I was looking forward to my 'break' when my youngest starts full-time school on tuesday! I have had at least one child at home all day non-stop for 10 years, so this was REALLY unexpected. OMG! no-one over here seems to know ANYTHING about the effects of gabapentin during pregnancy. AARRGGHH!!
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For information do a google.com search gabapentin+pregnancy
Tons of links and information will be at your fingertips!
Congrats on the new baby and I can sympathisize with the stressors of unexpected pregnancy! Life happens while we are busy making plans!
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/drugs/gabapentin-056540.htm#Pregnancy Implications
Tons of links and information will be at your fingertips!
Congrats on the new baby and I can sympathisize with the stressors of unexpected pregnancy! Life happens while we are busy making plans!
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/drugs/gabapentin-056540.htm#Pregnancy Implications
Birdy's right
Googling gabapentin & pregnancy comes up with some really good hits.
In the meantime, I went directly to rxlist.com......
http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/gabapent.htm
Good luck! You have an awful lot of information to deal with.... I will be thinking of you...
Meetz
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Googling gabapentin & pregnancy comes up with some really good hits.
In the meantime, I went directly to rxlist.com......
http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/gabapent.htm
Good luck! You have an awful lot of information to deal with.... I will be thinking of you...
Meetz
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Congrats even if it wasn't necessarily part of your plan. 
You might also consider contacting the AED pregnancy registry.
You might also consider contacting the AED pregnancy registry.
Is there one of those AED in pregnancy registry's for the UK? My pharmacist said something about the UK needs more case studies done. (There were none in his big book). I really wish it was monday. I don't have an epilepsy nurse, my EA lady is on holiday for the next 2 weeks, my GP knows about as much about specific problems in epilepsy as he does about driving a car that ISN'T made by Jaguar, and my next neuro appointment is meant to be in JANUARY fgs! OH god, I'm panicking!
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that there are at least a couple......check out the link I'm pasting in. It should lead you to them. These are the results I got when I Googled "anti epileptic drug registry united kingdom" One's called EURAP. Another I'm not quite sure....but there's a link to Medscape.com.
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