PSUgirl2009
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As I announced before, my husband and I are newly pregnant. However, I just started a new job and will not qualify for FMLA. I'll be short by 2 and a half months.
I will qualify for short-term disability which is only a 6-week leave after having the baby. Granted that I have epilepsy and we will be raising my meds considerably during the 2nd and 3rd trimester, I don't think this will be enough time for me to heal and come back as a functional employee.
After the baby is born, they will be lowering my dose back to the original before I got pregnant. When I first switched from Tegretol to Lamictal (and when I finally was on monotherapy for Lamictal), I got really sick. Blinding headaches, nausea and was disoriented for several weeks before my body recognized this is the new normal.
Between the trauma of labor, flucuating hormones, switching my meds around and the inevitable lack of sleep, this is pretty much a perfect storm for a seizure for me. It has been 21 years since my last seizure but when I was little and meds weren't right, what used to cause them was lack of sleep and nutrition.
My question in all of this is does anyone know if somewhere in the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) it states something about medical leave? I'm not asking for 6 months off. Just the standard 12-weeks to get my body back to a safe place.
I will qualify for short-term disability which is only a 6-week leave after having the baby. Granted that I have epilepsy and we will be raising my meds considerably during the 2nd and 3rd trimester, I don't think this will be enough time for me to heal and come back as a functional employee.
After the baby is born, they will be lowering my dose back to the original before I got pregnant. When I first switched from Tegretol to Lamictal (and when I finally was on monotherapy for Lamictal), I got really sick. Blinding headaches, nausea and was disoriented for several weeks before my body recognized this is the new normal.
Between the trauma of labor, flucuating hormones, switching my meds around and the inevitable lack of sleep, this is pretty much a perfect storm for a seizure for me. It has been 21 years since my last seizure but when I was little and meds weren't right, what used to cause them was lack of sleep and nutrition.
My question in all of this is does anyone know if somewhere in the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) it states something about medical leave? I'm not asking for 6 months off. Just the standard 12-weeks to get my body back to a safe place.
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