Hi Ruperts_Mom,
I hope you are having a good day......what a dilemma. I feel your pain....I was getting migraines for about five days a week until I got on a blood pressure medication ....lowers it....propranolol .aka inderal...
http://www.wyeth.com/content/ShowLabeling.asp?id=106
Here is an article on migraine and pregnancy......
http://www.fetal-exposure.org/MIGRAINE.html
http://headaches.about.com/od/medsar.../pregnancy.htm
http://www.colmc.org.uk/Images/migraine_in_preg_fs.pdfhttp://www.aurorahealthcare.org/services/headaches/types/pregnancy.asp
Be careful reading this one.....is only for your knowledge not trying to scare you
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2006 Aug;76(8):592-601.
Maternal severe migraine and risk of congenital limb deficiencies.
Bánhidy F,
Acs N,
Horváth-Puhó E,
Czeizel AE.
Second Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Semmelweis University, School of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary.
BACKGROUND: Migraines occurs frequently during pregnancy; however, there are no published data on their possible teratogenic potential in a controlled epidemiological study. Therefore, we examined the risk of congenital abnormalities in infants born to women who had migraines and other headaches during pregnancy. METHODS: Between 1980 and 1996, the Hungarian Case-Control Surveillance of Congenital Abnormalities evaluated 22,843 cases (newborns or fetuses) with congenital abnormalities, 38,151 control newborn infants without any abnormalities, and 834 malformed controls with Down syndrome. RESULTS: Migraines anytime during pregnancy occurred in 565 (2.5%) mothers of the case group compared with 713 (1.9%) mothers in the control group (crude prevalence odds ratio [POR], 1.3; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.2-1.5) and 24 (2.9%) pregnant women in the malformed control group (crude POR, 0.9; 95% CI, 0.6-1.3) The mothers of 247 cases, 533 controls, and 21 malformed controls had severe migraines during the second and/or third months of pregnancy. There was only 1 congenital abnormality group: limb deficiencies, which had a higher rate of maternal migraines during the second and third months of pregnancy both at the comparison of cases and matched controls (adjusted POR, 2.5; 95% CI, 1.1-5.8) and of cases and malformed controls (adjusted POR, 1.7; 95% CI, 1.3-3.0). There was no association between other headaches and different congenital abnormalities at the comparison of cases and controls. CONCLUSIONS: Our data showed that maternal severe migraines during the second and/or third months of pregnancy were associated with an increased risk of congenital limb deficiencies. A similar association was not detected between congenital anomalies and other headaches during pregnancy. Our study was not based on a prior hypothesis; therefore, these data can be considered only as a signal that needs confirmation by independent data sets. 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
PMID: 16955495 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
J Headache Pain. 2005 Sep;6(4):172-4.
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Headaches in pregnancy.
Silberstein SD.
Jefferson Headache Center, 111 South Eleventh Street, Gibbon Building, Suite 8130, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
Stephen.Silberstein@jefferson.edu
Most women with migraine improve during pregnancy. Some women have their first attack. Migraine often recurs postpartum and can begin for the first time. Drugs are commonly used during pregnancy despite insufficient knowledge about their effects on the growing fetus. Most drugs are not teratogenic. Adverse effects, such as spontaneous abortion, developmental defects and various postnatal effects depend on the dose and route of administration and the timing of the exposure relative to the period of foetal development. While medication use should be limited, it is not absolutely contraindicated in pregnancy. Nonpharmacologic treatment is the ideal solution; however, analgesics such as acetaminophen and opioids can be used on a limited basis. Preventive therapy is a last resort.
PMID: 16362655 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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hope this helps you.
love and hugs
Victoria