Foxy
11-12-2009, 09:59 AM
I have a severe allergy to peanuts which can result in anaphylaxis and I carry and Adrenalin Epipen. This is the first information I share with almost everyone I meet and this includes doctors.
I recently became pregnant as was prescribed Utrogestan (http://emc.medicines.org.uk/medicine/19895/SPC/Utrogestan+100mg+Capsules/) 100mg by my gynaecologist who was fully aware of my allergy. I was prescribed it because the Corpus Leutium - which is where the egg comes from and what sustains the baby with progesterone until it implants - looked small.
(I am from the UK, currently living in Asia but did see a British doctor specifically because of my concern about my allergy. )
It is the only medication I took and I did question its necessity and what was in it (to be told all natural ingredients) but I didn't Google the brand name as I understood it just to be the hormone progesterone, and they don't give out patient info leaflets with medication here.
Less than 24 hours after I started taking it I was in hospital for a threatened miscarriage. I was advised to have two week full bed rest and to continue taking the medication and the situation would resolve itself during that time. I took it for six weeks, after complaining about it making me feel ill, my dosage was lowered from two tablets a night to one for the final two weeks. I believed I felt so ill because I was pregnant as this was my first pregnancy. Ten days after finishing the tablets I contracted Mycoplasma "walking pneumonia" at the same time my baby died and I suffered a missed miscarriage at 15 weeks.
UTROGESTAN CONTAINS PEANUT OIL. A fact I have recently discovered and something I guess my well-respected doctor was unaware of.
I have spent nearly 20 years dodging peanuts and was particularly concerned about accidentally eating them during my pregnancy.
I do not know, and I believe I will never know, why I lost my baby. This was two weeks ago and I am coming to terms with it as best I can.
Following a Google search yesterday I discovered that Utrogestan contains peanut – arachis (which is peanut) oil. Perhaps you can imagine my devastation at thinking I may have caused my baby harm.
The only consolation I feel I can get from this situation is that everyone with a peanut allergy knows about this medication so they are armed with the knowlege before they go to the doctor and this doesn't happen to anyone else – which is why I am posting on this forum.
Please pass the warning on.
I recently became pregnant as was prescribed Utrogestan (http://emc.medicines.org.uk/medicine/19895/SPC/Utrogestan+100mg+Capsules/) 100mg by my gynaecologist who was fully aware of my allergy. I was prescribed it because the Corpus Leutium - which is where the egg comes from and what sustains the baby with progesterone until it implants - looked small.
(I am from the UK, currently living in Asia but did see a British doctor specifically because of my concern about my allergy. )
It is the only medication I took and I did question its necessity and what was in it (to be told all natural ingredients) but I didn't Google the brand name as I understood it just to be the hormone progesterone, and they don't give out patient info leaflets with medication here.
Less than 24 hours after I started taking it I was in hospital for a threatened miscarriage. I was advised to have two week full bed rest and to continue taking the medication and the situation would resolve itself during that time. I took it for six weeks, after complaining about it making me feel ill, my dosage was lowered from two tablets a night to one for the final two weeks. I believed I felt so ill because I was pregnant as this was my first pregnancy. Ten days after finishing the tablets I contracted Mycoplasma "walking pneumonia" at the same time my baby died and I suffered a missed miscarriage at 15 weeks.
UTROGESTAN CONTAINS PEANUT OIL. A fact I have recently discovered and something I guess my well-respected doctor was unaware of.
I have spent nearly 20 years dodging peanuts and was particularly concerned about accidentally eating them during my pregnancy.
I do not know, and I believe I will never know, why I lost my baby. This was two weeks ago and I am coming to terms with it as best I can.
Following a Google search yesterday I discovered that Utrogestan contains peanut – arachis (which is peanut) oil. Perhaps you can imagine my devastation at thinking I may have caused my baby harm.
The only consolation I feel I can get from this situation is that everyone with a peanut allergy knows about this medication so they are armed with the knowlege before they go to the doctor and this doesn't happen to anyone else – which is why I am posting on this forum.
Please pass the warning on.