Conflicted: Twitching and Babies

[Gadwilk]

Ok, I've been twitching for over a year and a half. I really want to have another baby, but I find myself sooooooooo afraid that I will find out I have something horrible, like **S. Then, I wonder if I want to leave a child without a mother. But, on the other hand, I think maybe it would be nice for my son to have someone to remember his mother with. I know I am psycho. Sometimes, I feel so much better and I have no new symptoms. But, like now, lots of joint pain and cramping and I wonder what is happening with me. The other issue is that I am on Tegretol supposedly to help the twitching (although, I don't think it really works). I know I can't get pregnant on it. And, am I in any mental state to have another child??????????????????????????

 

[Gadwilk]

Thanks for your reply. I'm not so much worried about the twitching during pregnancy, as the pain and anxiety. I will look around on the board for the old posts. Thanks again.

 

[Medusa13]

Hi dakwilk,
Thought I ought to respond to this one, seeing as you may well come across my posts in your search under BFS and pregnancy. My story happens to be a bit of a horror story, and I'm quite sure will in no way apply to your situation! If you have read my old posts, you will see that I and my family had been heavily exposed to a pesticide very shortly before I became pregnant. It is my belief that this exposure caused the BFS in us and another more serious autoimmune disorder in my little daughter (the one I became pregnant with shortly after exposure).
I hope you don't take my story to mean that a child you may become pregnant with would be affected in the way my baby was...I blame her condition on what I think was the triggering event, the pesticide exposure at the time of pregnancy, not the BFS itself. I do believe that if I became pregnant now, the baby and I both would be okay...
Have that baby if that is what you want, there is absolutely nothing in the world more rewarding.
Take care,
Christy