Pregnancy gabapentin

For bipolar patients, gabapentin should generally be discontinued before anticipated pregnancies... 

For bipolar patients, given the risk ot relapse in the postpartum period, mood stabilizer treatment, especially with agents with better evidence of efficacy than gabapentin, should generally be restarted immediately after delivery if patient is unmedicated during pregnancy... 

Atypical antipsychotics may be preferable to gabapentin if treatment of bipolar disorder is required during pregnancy... 

Valproic acid, carbamazepine, and in pregnancy clonazepam or gabapentin. 

Fujii H, Goel A, Bernard N, PisteUi A, Yates LM, Stephens S, et al. Pregnancy outcomes following gabapentin use results of a prospective comparative cohort study. Neurology April 23,2013 80(17) 1565-70. 

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