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I’m an ADHD mom-to-be, and I (perhaps like many of you) was researching and looking through every possible Reddit post I could find on Adderall and pregnancy.

I’m currently just short of 12 weeks pregnant. My primary care doctor abruptly stopped me on my medication (would not refill it due to pregnancy) about 3 weeks ago, which as you could imagine was a disaster. I was on 30mg IR daily. I’ve been on this medication on and off since 2014 (majority of that time has been on), and have been on it for the past two and a half years consistently. After abruptly stopping, I was severely depressed, anxious, spent many days uncontrollably crying, almost completely nonfunctional and it was just stressful and awful. Luckily, I was able to get in relatively quickly with a psychiatric CRNP who restarted me on my medication 5 days ago. After talking it through with her we came to the decision to try to just drop the use and/or doses down— so like 3-4 days per week at either 20 or 30mg. She said I could stay at the 30, but I was cool with reducing.

Today, I had my first appointment with MFM (I have lupus with a miscarriage history due to being undiagnosed/untreated during those past two pregnancies). The topic of the Adderall came up and I told her about my PCP abruptly stopping this medication, to which she replied “Well that’s not good and should never have happened”. We had a little talk about my 2 weeks/symptoms being unmedicated, and she reassured me and said “You’re perfectly fine to keep taking that, and you can stay at the 30mg, that is not an issue at all”. She said that there is virtually no risk at therapeutic doses of prescribed medication of low birthweight, preterm birth or birth defects; there is a \*slight\* risk that the baby may be a little irritable after birth, but if I am breastfeeding that should correct (and would correct over time regardless).

She also said that she would recommend continuing to take it every day. I do like an off day here and there, so I’ll still do that, but essentially I don’t need to struggle with trying to reduce/restrict, and that the consistency would be better for me and baby anyway rather than peaks and troughs that would arise with restricted use.

This helped put my mind and heart at ease SO much, and I wanted to share with this community because I of my own experience navigating this— obsessively researching, feeling shame, guilt, anxiety, paranoia, etc. In my case, all of this felt ten times worse because of how my PCP handled this situation. So if you are in any sort of similar situation, I want to encourage you to find opinions by doctors and professionals who are specialists/experts.

Pregnancy aside, I’m happy to again be under psychiatric care for my ADHD because in general over the past couple of years I’ve experienced and internalized a lot of misunderstanding from my PCP when it comes to ADHD, and more harmfully flat out JUDGMENT and sideways remarks about stim meds/Adderall from her nurse. It’s very clear to me now that I should not have tolerated that for as long as I had.

But that’s that! Just wanted to contribute to the wealth of reassuring info and advocacy for my fellow pregnant ADHD peeps. Sending good health and love to the mommas in this community 🤍

I’m an ADHD mom-to-be, and I (perhaps like many of you) was researching and looking through every possible Reddit post I could find on Adderall and pregnancy.

I’m currently just short of 12 weeks pregnant. My primary care doctor abruptly stopped me on my medication (would not refill it due to pregnancy) about 3 weeks ago, which as you could imagine was a disaster. I was on 30mg IR daily. I’ve been on this medication on and off since 2014 (majority of that time has been on), and have been on it for the past two and a half years consistently. After abruptly stopping, I was severely depressed, anxious, spent many days uncontrollably crying, almost completely nonfunctional and it was just stressful and awful. Luckily, I was able to get in relatively quickly with a psychiatric CRNP who restarted me on my medication 5 days ago. After talking it through with her we came to the decision to try to just drop the use and/or doses down— so like 3-4 days per week at either 20 or 30mg. She said I could stay at the 30, but I was cool with reducing.

Today, I had my first appointment with MFM (I have lupus with a miscarriage history due to being undiagnosed/untreated during those past two pregnancies). The topic of the Adderall came up and I told her about my PCP abruptly stopping this medication, to which she replied “Well that’s not good and should never have happened”. We had a little talk about my 2 weeks/symptoms being unmedicated, and she reassured me and said “You’re perfectly fine to keep taking that, and you can stay at the 30mg, that is not an issue at all”. She said that there is virtually no risk at therapeutic doses of prescribed medication of low birthweight, preterm birth or birth defects; there is a *slight* risk that the baby may be a little irritable after birth, but if I am breastfeeding that should correct (and would correct over time regardless).

She also said that she would recommend continuing to take it every day. I do like an off day here and there, so I’ll still do that, but essentially I don’t need to struggle with trying to reduce/restrict, and that the consistency would be better for me and baby anyway rather than peaks and troughs that would arise with restricted use.

This helped put my mind and heart at ease SO much, and I wanted to share with this community because I of my own experience navigating this— obsessively researching, feeling shame, guilt, anxiety, paranoia, etc. In my case, all of this felt ten times worse because of how my PCP handled this situation. So if you are in any sort of similar situation, I want to encourage you to find opinions by doctors and professionals who are specialists/experts.

Pregnancy aside, I’m happy to again be under psychiatric care for my ADHD because in general over the past couple of years I’ve experienced and internalized a lot of misunderstanding from my PCP when it comes to ADHD, and more harmfully flat out JUDGMENT and sideways remarks about stim meds/Adderall from her nurse. It’s very clear to me now that I should not have tolerated that for as long as I had.

But that’s that! Just wanted to contribute to the wealth of reassuring info and advocacy for my fellow pregnant ADHD peeps. Sending good health and love to the mommas in this community 🤍

Hello. So to start, I am not a lab professional but a lurker here because I find what you all do so interesting (and I’m very appreciative of you all!). I have been going to Labcorp basically out of convenience because it is walking distance for my house. But the decline of the company has been pretty evident to me as a patient due to very slow turnaround times. I had a pretty extensive workup with some rheum tests last Thursday and still waiting on results. But my question here is whether or not Labcorp results are even reliable? I’ve seen the discussions around how understaffed/underpaid/overworked lab professionals are working for this company, and it’s my assumption that quality suffers here just like it would anywhere else or in any other industry. I’ve also seen that people typically take Labcorp positions as an entry point into their career, and while I am certainly not discrediting anyone new to the field, obviously people become better at their jobs through gaining experience.

I am currently pregnant with a high risk pregnancy due to some rheum diseases, and will be switching labs moving forward, but my main concern here is whether or not I can even fully trust the results that I get back from this initial round of testing (or any testing for that matter).

I appreciate your time and input, and thanks again for what you do! (PS- lab appreciation week was some bullshit in my opinion, the entire system so obviously relies on lab testing so fuck that!)