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Date: 09.07.2011
From: kirst

Subject: pregnancy and RA

Just wondering how quickly people have fallen pregnant after stopping meds and how the RA was handled during pregnancy?
Me and my partner would like one more child and with me having to stop MTX anyway we are now of the thinking that getting a pregnancy out of the way now would mean i could then concentrate on getting the RA under control after a pregnancy.
if that makes sence
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Date: 11.07.2011
From: Rachel

Subject: Re: pregnancy and RA

Hi Kirst, I'm also in the same boat as you and at 39 can't afford to leave it much longer, but I'm nervous as to what the RA will unleash without methotrexate and how I would cope without meds (although I haven't noticed a massive difference with it). Hopefully someone will reply who has been through it. Good luck !
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Date: 11.07.2011
From: marlene

Subject: Re: pregnancy and RA

i have bumped up the post below this one for you to read may be of some use. If you put pregnancy and RA into the search box you will find discussions on here. Hope all goes well and good luck. X
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Date: 11.07.2011
From: kirst

Subject: Re: pregnancy and RA

thats been helpful, thanks for bumping that thread for me. Im going to speak to my GP, then the rummy. Im a bit worried about how long its going to take to fall pregnant because the MTX has made my monthlys very very irregular so ive got some concerns about what can be done to help if that side of things doesnt improve. I used to be regular as clockwork and fell pregnant so quickly with my boys.
thankyou x
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Date: 11.07.2011
From: marlene

Subject: Re: pregnancy and RA

Well i wish you well with your plans, hope all is well i am sure it will be. Your cycle will improve as you come off meds im sure. You take care x
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Date: 11.07.2011
From: charlotte

Subject: Re: pregnancy and RA

I am 31 and tried to fall pregnant last year whilst just on sulfasalzine (diagnosed in March 2010. rhumy put me on that as he knew family was important and was getting married in nov) but by December it hadn't happened and so he put me on methtrexate. had to decide that my health had to come first.

When we went to see him again in feb he said he thought was doing really well and that by June would have knocked it out of me so I could go back on the sulfa and try again... how wrong was he!

From march to june i was suffering so much that gp prescribed various pain killers so i could carry on working. But the flare ups were continous, depression very bad and when was at work my mind was all over the place. We also decided to apply to adopt as things didn't look on the up

Saw the rhumy nurse couple of weeks ago. She aplogised for him giving me false hope and for him giving me a low does of metha. She said that regardless of the amount given you still need 6mths clear before trying for a baby again.

She upped the dose and I am going for an assement for the biologics in september. She can't do it sooner as they need to prove they have tried everything else. She said that i will feel worse for next three months but to bear with it, oh and that she wouldn't approve me to adopt either!

Oh what joy. So now i can't work for at least two days a week cos the side effects of the metha and then the naproxyn gives me such abdominal pain its unbearable

So here i am 31, newly married with this bloody disease with not much hope of a family life. We are thinking about doing something exciting if i ever feel better .. just haven't decided what

Anyways i just wanted to make people aware that they can give you some false hope .. and felt sorry for myself. Sorry for jumping on your thread.

Wish you all the best, fingerscrossed x
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Date: 12.07.2011
From: cookie

Subject: Re: pregnancy and RA

Hello girls i have had 2 babies while having ra and on sulph i guess the good nes for some but not all is that ra can go into total remission while preggie. I guess its surviving to that point thats the problem. Was on sulph which is safe in pregnancy so although i did come off it when i found out i didnt need to and i didnt need to take any meds at all while preggie....3 months after having both my girlies ra came back with avengance although slightly lesser the second time as was for warned following my first daughter. Remember ghough if your planning to try to get preggie to take larger doses of folic acid as some meds knock this down massivly x
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Date: 20.08.2011
From: Carrie

Subject: Re: pregnancy and RA

Hi there,

I got pregnant within a year and half of that we were not trying properly. I was on Anti tnf, so was my husband, we both had to come of it during conception because that is just how the UK works things.You can sign a legal doc to say you are happy to stay on the med and accept the consequences if any there may be by remaining on the drug during pregnancy on the unborn child. I did not want to sign that as I want my child to have a good life especially as I got arthritis at 15 mths old. I have written a blog for precisely people with arthritis wanting to start a family and practical help on where to get popper free clothing as poppers are difficult for arthritics and high street baby equipment that is easy for arthritic parents to use etc. Mostly it is for sharing experiences and information as mummies and daddies who are a little creaky. It also talks of my pregnancy on there. Have a look and be involved, it is isolating and lonely being a physically disabled mother or father sometimes and I think that changed in 2011!

http://disabledpositiveparent.blogspot.com/

Cheers Caroline x
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