Hi aimee, I hesitate to say anything one way or the other. The best idea in this situation is to be asking a healthcare professional, such as the doctor who prescribed celexa, the doctor who will be taking care of you during your pregnancy, even a pharmacist.

As to whether a drug like celexa will harm your baby in utero a public forum with lay people is definitely not the best place to get your advice. I would consider this a serious situation and go straight to the people who's training includes knowing the effects of drugs such as these on unborn babies.

Best wishes, louise

Hi,
thanks but I have done all that and doctors now a days are just basicaly useless in my eyes I have asked all those people you have mentioned that is why I was just wondering if anyone on this fourm had any experiances with antidepressants through there pregnancies.
Thank you,
amy

What was their reply to you? Yes stay on? No, try this instead?

There is a site http://www.Motherisk.Org/ that discusses different drugs and their effects during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

And this site talks specifically about celexa during preg & breastfeeding: http://www.Perinatology.Com/exposures/drug s/citalopram.Htm

i know it can be scary to go off antidepressants, I did it myself a few years ago, mainly because I knew i'd want to start trying for a baby and didn't want to be on meds during that time. Do you have a good therapist that you're working with? That was especially important for me. And once I went of the meds I took st. John's wort for almost a year, tapering off slowly, unfortunately I don't believe many, if any, studies have been done regarding safety of st. John's wort during pregnancy.

Thanks for the links and all of them said the same thing (not enough information on the drugs) to know... It is labeled a catagory c.. & my ob just said to stop and I told her no I cant I will wind up in the hospital it has happened before and then they will shot me up with ativan to calm me down... I dont get all physco but I just get paniced and the anxiety just about kills me it feels like I am dying... Thats the best way to expalin how I feel without my meds and I have gone off them before and that is the last time I will do something stupid like that cause that is when they came back even worse!!!!!! If I could stop I would!!
Thanks for the info.
Amy

Hey there! I'm a nursing student (not a nurse yet!) but I dont mind looking it up in my drug book when I get home! Of course, what your doctor says should definately weigh heavier than anything I could tell you, but i'll look it up anyways! As for him saying you needed to come off of it, but you feel you cant...Talk to your doc and let him know you need something in place of celexa. Most of the times there is another option! I'll post again when I get home!
Lauren

Thank you lauren. But the problem is the docs dont say nothing!! I see my ob for an ultrasound on the 28th and will ask her again and see if I get any kind of other answer from her then just (stop taking it) cause I know I am not the only person out here that takes antidepressants(celexa) and is pregnant
thanks again,
amy

Have you tried going back to the doc that prescribed celexa in the first place? Your ob may not understand your need to be on the drug and is only concerned with what affects the baby. It sucks that specialty doctors don't always take everything into account, but your ob is not the best person to prescribe you a med to replace celexa.

I went to my gp that perscribed the celexa and she said nothing talk to your ob, see I just get the run around all the time that is why I just look for other people that might be in the same boat as me. now my good friend took prozac and ativan through 2 of her pregnancies and they are both normal fine developed fine and they are now 9 & 7 so I just try to look around the net and on different fourms and msg boards to see if I see anything in comparision.
Thanks
amy

ps.
I am just a big time worryer

Sometimes doctors tend to look over things...Scary I know! Next time, why dont you try talking to your doctors nurse! If you can explain the situation to her she might be able to get him to figure it out! Also, you could call the pharmacist and ask them what would happen if you didnt stop taking the meds while pregnant! Just go to whoever you can to get answers! Good luck! I'll see what I can find later on!
Lauren

I did email a pharmacist at savon drugs and they told me: well I will make this short,
according to information published in the physicians desk reference in 2004 celexa carries a pregnancy risk rating c
catagory c: studies have shown that the drug exerts anmal teratogenic or embroycidal effects, but there are no controlled studies in women, or no studies are available in either animals or woman.
Thats it.
So I guess I just keep my fingers crossed huh I will be asking more questions come my nexted visit.
Thank you,
amy