BuyerBeware wrote:
I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
Considering how bad off I was when I was carrying Ab (no, I didn't mean to get pregnant, but contraceptives fail, and better autistic than aborted), I shudder to think what could have happened to ALL of us (her, me, my hubby, and our other 3 kids) if flattening of affect associated with Prozac hadn't been keeping me on something at least externally resembling an even keel.
Now, I'm sick to the death of people passing out SSRI's for every unpleasant emotion. Pretending that, other than having to fake orgasms for the duration, there's no downside. BS. My MIL's attitude ("Feeling down?? Up your dose and smile!! !") makes me want to puke. Downright dystopian.
But... No, I don't think I'm going to guilt myself too much if that fluoxetine tipped the scales on Ab getting The Curse.
But, then, to be fair, I realized when I chose to have kids at all that there was a pretty good chance of one of them winding up with autism. So, ya know...
Your last statement I think carries far more truth than anything else in the entire discussion, including the article in my original post. There are so, so many variables that go into the development of a fetus, including minute quantities of so many different hormones whose specific timing even has a huge effect on how the brain & other systems develop. Something the study did not reveal was whether the reason the children were more likely to be on the spectrum was due to the mother needing SSRI's because the gametes came from genetic lines that increase the chance of autism *and* the need for SSRI's, or due to some specific chemical interaction of the drug itself with the mother or baby's endocrine system. But to avoid SSRI's when needed to avoid the chance of autism in many cases would itself result in a miscarriage due to things like sky high cortisol levels.
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14 Dec 2015, 10:20 pm
