Hmm..Just wondering, does anyone know if Beta blockers sway boy or girl?

[Trishy74]

I was just thinking back to when I conceived DS in October 2010. Back then my life was so different, I was on Verapamil which is a beta blocker they find prevents migraines. I was on it for at least 6 months and it did raise my prolactin levels back then and I ttc for 10 mos prior to going to a fertility dr and them telling me about my prolactin levels being so high. However, once I told my neurologist all of this, he told me to stop the Verapamil b/c it effects the hypothalamus. I kid you not that about a week and a half later, I ovulated and got preggo. It's amazing how once I stopped that medication, I got preggo right away. Now, just thinking, could the verapamil still have been in my system a week later (being it was built up in my system for so long) and would that have swayed boy? I do know my eating habits were so bad! 4 days a week I had a waffle with maple syrup for breakfast with a glass of fresh squeezed OJ. This was 4 days a week while at work. Then for dinner, I remember living on buffalo chicken pizza! So I do know my diet def played a roll in conceiving a son but just wondering if beta blockers add to this as well. I also was taking Fioricet every month around ovulation time and period time b/c of my horrible migraines. Not sure if all of that made a difference as in a boy sway per se.

[Drunken Cockatoo]

Bumping as I had to take Beta Blockers for ten years myself. Since the birth of my son (6 month ago) I don't need them anymore but will probably have to take them again after I will have stopped breastfeeding.

[atomic sagebrush]

beta blockers, on paper, should sway pink by lowering testosterone. But it's really not known how effective lowering testosterone really is for we ladies and none of these things are magic bullets, that's for sure.

painkillers also believed to sway pink

[Trishy74]

Thanks atomic.

[Drunken Cockatoo]

Thank you atomic for this answer and for putting so much time and work into this website!!!