PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for February, 2003: Re: Darvocet during pregnancy

Re: Darvocet during pregnancy

From: Erin

anonymous@obgyn.net

Sat, 8 Feb 2003 15:19:53 -0600 (CST)

I too was prescribed Darvocet for Migraines and my O/B said that in studies, women who took the drug regularly for pain management durring pregnancy gave birth to babies with no more birth defects than women who did not take the drug. He did say though to be careful durring the 3rd trimester in how often. I believe it was due to possible addiction of the baby. My other option for the migraines was to call my Dr. every time I had one (every day!) and have him tell me to go to the ER to get a shot of Demerol and Phenergren (which made me ralph like crazy) or Morphine (which is supposedly non-toxic to the fetus per my Dr.) The morphine worked great but hey...doesn't that sound a little intence? Plus I would be hung over from it for 2 days and sleep the entire time only to once again wake up w/ another head ache. Good news is...although it sounds too good to be true, the head aches will stop all of a sudden one day soon (atleast I hope so...that's what happened to me anyway) and then you won't need the Darvocet any more :) Hope this helped!

>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: Susan <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>To: Multiple recipients of list PREGNANCY-BIRTH
><pregnancy-birth@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 12:41 PM
>Subject: Darvocet during pregnancy
>
>> I am over 35 and 15 weeks pregnant. I have been prescribed Darvocet 100
>> for Migraines. I am not concerned about the effects of large doses, but
>> about a small does daily for an extended period of time. It seems if I
>> can catch the headache at the onset, 1/2 of a does (one pill) remedies
>> it for the day. Usually I wake up with the headache. Am I putting my
>> baby at risk? I know that no birth defects have occurred in animals with
>> this drug, but am concerned about the prolonged use.
>> Can you give me some straight answers on this?
>>
>> --
>> Susan
>>

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