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I took zoloft with my first and a xanax about every 16 days towards the end for anxiety. The zoloft (along with prenatal yoga and meditation) did help but it was a b___h coming off of it. I went from 75 mg to 50 to 25 to 12.5 over about 3 months. I used to hear sounds like chattering in the background like there was a party in the next room. I guess it was my brain adjusting to the lack of the drug. Those of you using xanax on a regular basis should try to cut down and find another way (like yoga, deep breathing, etc.) to unwind your anxiety. Xanax is a very powerful drug, as your physician will tell you.

My Dr said it was ok for me to continue my 5mg of Lexapro because it is such a little dose. Before I was pregnant I was trying to wean off it, because I felt healed. Went to EOD to Taking it once a wk even helped me. Right now I'm 7 wks pregnant & I am now taking it once every 2 wks. I hope the baby will not be affected with the little dose I am taking.

Thank you Amy. Thank you Charissa. This site is helping me get a grip of my feelings. Thank you for your responses. God bless.

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I took Zoloft with my daughter (have been on antidepressants for 10 years+) and she is healthy and perfect -almost 5 years old now. You have to remember that your health is critical in having a healthy baby. When you are pregnant and have a family to care for, you have to worry about yourself too. Listen to your doctor and do your best to take care of yourself.

Charisa thank you so much for your coments it helps a lot to hear all of your stories, i'm 17weeks now and i have a real bad anxiety just last night i was in the hospital with a really bad panic attack that my hear rate was 140 and they did all kinds of test and everithng was good exept for my potasium that is low and they put me now on med for it but today i couldn take it no more and i went to the doctor and she prescribe me Zoloft i hope this makes me feel better , but i'm terrified of taking it and it giving me side effects, i freak out of anything going on in my body, so now with the potasium pill, the prenatal and the zoloft of lord i hope everything comes out good. Amy thank you for you posts please if you feel like talking e-mail me i need a FRIEND to talk about all this my e-amil is abulily@aol.com to all of you. Kristen i hope you r doping better if you need a friend same to all of you here i'm if i can help. God bless you all.

I get depressed too, I like to get out of the house, you don't have to spend any money just go to the park or something. Surround yourself with happy people. Be around people that will make you feel better about being you.

I am 7 weeks pregnant and feel sad all the time. I am so tired of feeling like c___p with no energy. I am tired of waking up in the night because I am hungry and have to go to the bathroom and cant fal back to sleep because my mind is racing! I wish I could find happiness with this whole thing. I dont even like to talk about being pregnant because it makes me upset!

i need some help with this same issue please

I find also to help me out with no feeling upset and keeping my mind off things when I am around other people. I use to love being home alone but now I hate it! I got to my mom's a lot and hang there. The crying spurts I am going to be 8 weeks this Tuesday and the other night I went out to eat and I felt so sad. Right when my boyfriend and I left I started crying so hard and I didnt know why. Everyone else seems to be happy and talk about it all the time but I am tired of being asked questuions I like to just put it in the back of my head. I feel mean saying that... but I cant help it. I wish I could be happy about this and want to tell people about it. Thsi is my first pregnancy so I am very nervous with whats to come. I am a small girl and I just cant picture myself getting so big!

About Xanax. Ladies, I want to tell you something very important. Xanax is cla__sified as a Cla__s X drug, meaning that it has been shown to have a high incidence of causing problems such as neural tube defects and Cleft palate in infants born to mothers who used it during pregnancy. The problem is, coming off it can cause dangerous side effects such as seizures and infant mortality. I have been on it for the better part of a year and have not known I am preg until now, and I am about 4.5-5 months. I had been taking 4 mg per day, and over the course of the last month i have been trying to taper down, it's hard sometimes but not so bad at others - I am down to 1-2 mg per day, mostly 1 mg, 2 on days when i feel the withdrawals kicking my b___t. The best thing to do is taper down slowly but consistently at a rate of half a mg. reduction per week until you are down to half a mg per day. I don't know what happens after that. I am afraid of it myself. If you are on Xanax and preg it is NECESSARY for you to get off it because of the severity of the birth defects it is known to cause. I read a report on neural tube defects which said that the women studied who found out through triple screening that they were carrying a baby with a neural tube defect, 90% chose elective abortion because of the way the baby would have been born. I am not trying to scare anyone, but it important for you who are taking Xanax to know how seriously it can affect your child. Please use your search engings to look up neural tube defects so yuo know exactly what can happen. If you have any questions or need someone to talk t o who knows what it is like to come off it, feel free to email me maid_marian_@msn.com And to all of you who have been brave enough to share here, thank you, and I wish you the best. I do know what it's like to be depressed during preg, I have been in tears as I read each and every post. But it will get better, for some it just takes a turn around 4-5 months, and others will need a doctor's help, meds maybe, and most helpful of all is finding a therapist who can guide you toward healing yourself. Even low income women, State medical plans as in welfare will cover psychological counselling during and after pregnancy. Please don't let money be an issue in getting help!

Marian I wanted to thank very much for your post it does help to talk to other I'm also on med for my anxiety problem i take zoloft 12.5 mg and i had to take it becuase i used ot have some real bad pani attacks and get very deppress about it, but thank you very much you can also e-mail me at any time abulily@aol.com, i have made a lot of friends like this and now they help me so much is incredible, good luck na dgod bless you.

I'm not a doctor but the research I've been doing has led me to believe that using Xanax is only dangerous in the beginning, before most women even know. The spine closes at 4 weeks, after that you are not able to control what happens. Also, many more recent studies find no relation between Xanax in pregnancy and higher rates of Neural Tube defects. Looks like it's mot the panic mode drug I thought it was. You shouldn't take it if you can help it, otherwise, TAPER DOWN SLOWLY. Also, you can try a different Benzo like Valium, which stays longer in the blood so you dose ledd often and have less severe w/d symptoms.

I am 31 weeks pregnant and i think i am depressed also? I wish i knew for sure my feelings have changed about everything i think my husband don't love me anymore and my life is falling apart. But then it is like i'm looking through a mirror and i know my life is fine but for some reason something is putting all this stuff in my head. I feel alone... etc and i have never felt this way before.??

Honey, your body is going thru so many hormonal changes, it would be odd if you werent having extreme feelings. You will be fine just remember that you are creating life to a beautiful baby and the minute you hold that baby in your arms and look into its eyes and meet your child, you will be the luckiest woman in the world. Good luck to you.....

To "Me": There is a lot of information about depression on the internet. I think you could answer your question if you find out a little more about the illness. Sometimes it helps to put a label on your problem. Whatever you're feeling, there is a lot of help available. Sometimes strong feelings can be frightening but strong feelings are all part of being alive. I am six months pregnant now and sometimes the whole experience just overwhelms me. I would just suggest that you get information and don't be afraid to ask for help!! Good luck!