It's not the Fibro, It's the Drugs.

Sometimes life takes turns you are not expecting, and then sometimes it takes a U-turn that leaves you with whiplash.

The drugs that fibro patients take are critical to their ability to live a less painful day-to-day life, but those same drugs can be harmful to a growing fetus.

This is why it's so important for fibro patients to understand that their ability to have a child is not cancelled out by their fibromyalgia, but the life of an unplanned child might be cancelled out by the drugs they are taking IF they don't plan ahead and work with their doctors as they begin to plan a family.

Medications are not something to guess about. Your doctor can tell you what, when and when not, to take them, ESPECIALLY when you are wanting to get pregnant.

Like everything in life, and life everything in a fibro patient's life, planning makes all the difference.

If you want to get pregnant, talk to your doctor first. Most likely there will be some changes in your medications, whether it's a change in prescription or dosage - it will make the environment your baby will be living in for 9 months much more conducive to nurturing a healthy baby.

NO drugs may not be the answer, so please don't self-prescribe or self-diagnose.

Keep your doctor in the loop if you are sexually active, whether single or married, and whether you are planning a child or not.

Your health is just as important as the baby's health. Don't think one can be sacrificed for the other.

It's not the fibro that will cause problems in a pregnancy, it's the use of necessary prescribed drugs without conversation with your doctor about appropriate adjustments when you are carrying a child.