University of Adelaide researchers have found that
women on antidepressant medication are more successful at breastfeeding their babies if they keep taking the medication, compared with women who quit antidepressants because of concerns about their babies» health.
Not exact matches
Almost one in four middle - age
women is
on some form of
antidepressant medication, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
It is possible that the drug is harmful to developing babies, but it's also possible that
women who are
on antidepressant medications are more severely depressed from the start and there is a biological or behavioral factor in these moms that accounts for the correlation found in the study.
With everything I said, not one came and commented in support of
women who adopt being supported by the mothering community, not one came to support the millions of mothers
on antidepressants or other meds who are caring for themselves a d hence caring for their babies.
Using data from the Danish National Birth Cohort in Denmark, researchers in the University of Adelaide's Robinson Research Institute studied the outcomes of 368
women who were
on antidepressants prior to becoming pregnant.
In recent years, the number of pregnant
women taking
antidepressants has been
on the rise.
«We have demonstrated for the first time in an animal model that maternal use of a class of
antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns about the long - term metabolic complications in children born to
women who take SSRI
antidepressants during pregnancy,» says PhD student Nicole De Long, who presented this research
on June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society.
On August 18, the day arrived: Flibanserin — a failed
antidepressant — received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to boost sexual desire in
women.
She believes it's fine for
women to stay
on antidepressants, even as they nurse, although she's more a proponent of good nutrition and adequate sleep.
Women who are already taking an
antidepressant, he said, should not simply stop the drug
on their own.
The study was conducted
on 3
women who had previously been diagnosed with clinical depression, and who were
on antidepressant therapy.
The study was conducted with 22 postmenopausal
women in their 50s (some of whom had been diagnosed with depression), and at the end of the trial, the researchers found that the clary sage oil had a statistically significant effect
on lowering cortisol and also had an
antidepressant effect.
Since lack of appetite, and / or rapid weight loss can also occur with an overactive thyroid, some
women are even misdiagnosed as having anorexia or bulimia, and put
on antidepressants, and / or sent to eating disorder clinics for treatment.
I am a 55 year old
woman and am
on an
antidepressant.
Although a depressed person needs to take an SSRI for weeks or even months to see results,
women who take the drugs for hot flashes notice a difference within a week or even right away, says Dr. Loprinzi, who has conducted several studies
on antidepressant drugs for hot flashes but was not involved in the new research.
A lot of
women who have endometriosis end up going
on antidepressants.
This group included 35 892
women with an incomplete depression history (ie, those who did not report their depressive status in 1996, 1998, or 2000 or did not return or answer the Mental Health Index [MHI] questionnaire9 - 11 [a 5 - item subscale of the 36 - Item Short - Form Health Survey] in 1992 or 1996), as well as
women who reported taking
antidepressants in 1996 (n = 2052) or had a physician - diagnosed episode of depression in 1996 or earlier (n = 3445), those with an unknown start date (n = 131), or those who reported severe depressive symptoms (score, ≤ 52)
on the 1992 (n = 2381) or 1996 (n = 2271) MHI questionnaire.
Side Effects Once again pairing up with Magic Mike director Steven Soderbergh, Tatum took
on another serious role in the 2013 psychological thriller Side Effects, which chronicles a
woman's (Rooney Mara) tailspin into depression and prescribed
antidepressants.
After he recovers, there's an apparently random meeting with a young
woman named Hanna (Jess Weixler) at a pharmacy (he's loading up
on antidepressants) that leads to a friendship, then more.
Of all the
antidepressants on the US market, Effexor has one of the highest risks of causing birth defects in the children of pregnant
women who take the drug.
While
women in this study
on antidepressants had lower levels of depressive symptoms than untreated
women they were still higher than control
women.