Behcets and Pregnancy?

[Soph19]

I’ve recently found out that I’m pregnant, has anyone experienced there condition getting worse or better during pregnancy? Advice would be great!

TIA

Sophie

[sam0511]

Hi Soph, I only finally found I had Behcets 2 years ago - both my girls are in their 20's now. I do remember I felt really well during both pregnancies - my flares etc are definitely linked to my periods so maybe once I wasn't going through that every month I had nothing to trigger a flare. Hope that makes sense. Keep a diary, eat well etc and good luck x

[Soph19 in reply to sam0511]

Hi Sam, thanks for your reply! I definitely found my flare ups were around the time of the month so fingers crossed I won’t have to many issues! I’ve had a few ulcers come up and sore eyes but apart from that all good. X

[jzeis]

Hi Sophie,

Congratulations on your pregnancy!!

I did a couple of posts on my Essential Behcet's blog about BD and pregnancy. The first post is about my personal experiences with being pregnant (2 kids, both kids are now in their 20s and healthy, but different BD-related issues during each pregnancy).

The second post is based on results of a survey I did of 65 American women who went through a total of 204 pregnancies (including miscarriages).

You can see both posts here: behcets.blogspot.com/search...

All the best,

Joanne Z.

[Soph19 in reply to jzeis]

Thank you Joanne, I will have a read!