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@Katie_Harrison 

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Katie_Harrison

Silly questions!

Okay, I feel like I shouldn't be asking this, but I'm going to anyway. Did anybody here decide to receive treatment before having children? Or did you decide to have children and then receive meds? Do you wish you'd have done things differently or not? Just curious as to what people's experiences are. :)
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@Brando
@Brando
 

I think this is more oriented at females on here but, this does go through my mind quite a lot. I was diagnosed young and dont have any children. But it was something I always wanted. but then that creeping feeling comes in that my MS will get in the way somehow. which I then convince myself to not have children. I do know a mother of two with MS however she went off her medication during the pregnancy term which did cause some issues for her. But she is still quite mobile and still happily married with her two kids. There are bumps in the road but I would think even someone without MS would probably have the same too. hope this helps. :)

@Stumbler
@Stumbler
 

@katie_harrison , it's not a question of one or the other these days. There are Disease Modifying Therapies, which can be considered more "family friendly". There's a few considerations, e.g. the activity/severity of your MS, your age, your family schedule, etc.. Everything is still possible. :wink: