Prednisone and pregnancy?

[Visitor7]

I'm currently taking prednisolone for my asthma, and my dr asked before giving it to me if I was still b/f, which I'm not, and he said he wouldn't give it to me if I was. I'm having a look on the net ATM for more info on that.

ETA: found this from www dot drugs dot com

This medication may be harmful to an unborn baby. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment. Prednisolone can pass into breast milk and may harm a nursing baby. Do not use this medication without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby. Steroid medicine can affect growth in children.

[anney]

BW,
Prednisone, along with a few other drugs is part of a protocol used in IVF, when there have been some miscarriages possibly due to immune issues. So prednisone itself when doing IVF is probably not a problem but I am not sure of the dosages that are involved. I believe it is usually taken up to the 12 week of pg. and then patients are weaned off it. I know a few people who have taken it and got pg. so I will see if I can find out what there dosage was.

ETA - 3 different people had different dosages:

Prednisolone 20mg once daily
Prednisone 5mg 3 times a day, 4 times after transfer
10mg daily Prednisone commencing three weeks before Puregon.

[butterfly_warrior]

Thanks, Anney and Jodi.

As nobody has yet been able to identify exactly what my arthritis is, I've always had the question in the back of my head that there may be an autoimmune problem with regards to maintaining a pregnancy, even though my rheumy assures me that all the tests have come back negative and it won't be a problem... there's still that worry there.

I have to admit that I'm terrified of the mood changes and the weight gain (been there, done that, don't want to do it again!), but I do need to do something to keep myself mobile, and I don't want to have to suspend the IVF treatment for 6 months until we hit weather where the arthritis is more manageable... but it sounds like it just may solve two problems (not that we know yet if there is in fact a second problem) at once.

I'll keep reading and researching, and hopefully I'll be able to make a fully informed decision next week.

Anney, it would be good if I could get some idea of the dosages involved... Although I will be making every possible attempt to keep my dosages as low as possible.

BW