With cerebral palsy should i be taking medicine?

Depends: on which medication you are referring to: please clarify and check with your treating physician.

Confusing question: CP is a stable defect in movement and posture related to an injury to the nervous system that occurred in the first 3 years of life. There is no "medicine" to treat CP, but a patient with the disorder may have a variety of related problems (seizures, excess salivation,etc) that might benefit from medication.

Cerebral Palsy is a: group of chronic motor disorders resulting from anything that disrupts fetal brain development from 3 weeks after conception - delivery or damages the brain from birth -3 years. CP is described by functional impairments in ambulation & hand use + neurological findings affecting one or both sides. Spasticity may treated with Botox for joint limitation along with PT, OT & adaptive equipment.