stratera & breast feeding and 2 week aniv | ADHD Information

Mom 22, Hi. I really don't think you should be taking it and breast feeding if it has that warning on the label.  Or at least ask your doctor AND pediatrician about it.  This is a relatively new medication and they don't what long term effects there may be, so your baby may be getting something that could potentially catch up with her in years to come.  My mom's generation was given some drug while they were pregnant - I can't remember which one - but the babies of these women ended up getting very ill years later.   daraI started stratera almost two weeks go, I decided to take it while
still nursing my 8 month old. In the packaging insert it states
that it isn't known if the med. passes through to breastmilk. I
decided to go ahead and take it thinking anything good that
came from the med. (being less frustrated w/ my older child,
being more consistant etc.) it would far outweigh the small
amount of the drug she may be recieving through the milk.

So in the insert it says one of the side effects is waking early.
Well in the past two weeks she has gone from sleeping untill 6
or so and she is wakeing up at 4 a.m., I then feed her and then
she may or may not go back down, yesterday she went back
down, Today she played some and then I just put her down (
right now it is 5:44).

So I go to the dr. tomorrow for my 2 week follow up, i will bring
this up to her. Other than this my daughter seems fine. I was
just wanting to know if anyone here is had an experience with
this drug while nursing.

I seem to be doing o.k. on it, I really haven't noticed a huge
change..I'm less moody It does seem that I can start and do a
task until finished easier but only if it something that I have to
do. I still have not shown any interest in any of my hobbies.
Ideas and things I want to do still pop into my head but doing
them is a different story. I did miss my med. this past sat.
morning and I sure did notice it. I was dragging big time and
then felt better once I took it. ALso I have noticed that when I
take a nap I feel good and refreshed afterwards, before i felt
like total crap after taking a nap.

I'm on the 40 or is it 45 mg. dose right now. If she ups the dose
what do you think it will do me. Also I do realize that I may be
suffering from a little bit of depression , and I'm going to bring
that up with her also.

Thanks for reading.
-Amy