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PMS worse since delivery/PPD

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Has anybody else found this to be true for them?  My PMS feels worse than it did before I got pregnant. Maybe I just forgot how it feels. . . but man, its rough.

All I want to do is cry--but I can't as I have my LO to care for.  <sigh>

FWIW, I have talked to my psychiatrist about this.  He increased my meds. . . hopefully it will get better after today.

I have to say that feeling like I do now makes me appreciate how good I do feel most days.

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Re: PMS worse since delivery/PPD

  • oct11bride03oct11bride03
    I noticed this last month, before I started BCP. I felt weepy and just crazy right before AF. This month I think I was less so, but I still felt PMS-y where I never used to feel that way pre-baby.
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  • kittycarrkittycarr

    I want to think mine has.  My youngest is almost 3.5yo.  I'm really confused about a lot of things with regard to ppd and treatment.  When DD was 6mo, I discussed the ppd possibility.  She says try this anti-depressant and talk to someone (long story short).  Then when DD was a year old, I decided I was ready for meds.  I wasn't ready to see a shrink so I got meds from my PCP.  For the last two years I've still dealt with major mood swings, tried several different anti-depressants, with and without anti-anxiety drugs too.  

    Given that I am still lactating post nursing two years and the tremendous amount of hair loss I'm still going through and the crazy mood swings, I discussed with my doctor that I may have a hormonal imbalance versus a chemical imbalance and that I'd like to try BCP's rather than anti-depressants.  He says fine.  I discuss it with my PCP, she says fine.

    I come on this board and see a lot of people who are on BCP's already for PPD and such.  So this is where my confusion comes in ~ if there is a relation in treatment between anti-depressants and bcp's with ?certaindegrees? of ppd, why wouldn't my doctors clarify for me the possibility that I might be more crazy than some PPD?

    ANd you know what else, I don't even know how much sense this sh*t even made...

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  • exhausted_brideexhausted_bride
    Oh, it's definitely worse. More cramping, mood swings, heavier bleeding.
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