Postpartum Depression
mikegirl07
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not sure if this is ppd and ppa
mikegirl07
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I am 15 weeks postpartum. All during my postpartum period i did feel down and low. After a while i felt a little better. at around 10 weeks i started having pains in my abdomen, constipation, trouble breathing, nausea, back pain... I thought it was gallbladder issues, had that checked out but everything came back normal. i am still not feeling well, a month after all of this. I have some hypocondriasis going on as well. i think everything is wrong with me. I went to the doctor last week and she diagnosed me with PPD/PPA and put me on zoloft. My question is... What physical symptoms did you all have with post partum depression/anxiety? I feel like my life is spirling out of control. 
i just want to feel better.. but it just feels like i feel worse. Thanks..
i just want to feel better.. but it just feels like i feel worse. Thanks.. 
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Re: not sure if this is ppd and ppa
With PPD I wasn't connecting with DD and I wanted to die. I thought things would be better if I wasn't around. I also wished that I never had her (but I never wanted to hurt her).
With PPA I was always worried about her dying. I'd check on her all the time. I had visions of something bad happening to her or to someone else I cared about.
I didn't have any actual physical symptoms except being tired all the time (which with a newborn was expected).
pretty much this for me too... I was in a fog, I didn't feel like myself, hearing her cry made me want to just leave and let her be with someone else who could "take care of her'" since obviously I couldn't. I worried that I was doing everything wrong. I checked on her every 5 minutes (no joke)... I'd run upstairs and then back down, sit down for a few seconds and then run back up... repeatedly from 7pm when she went to bed until 11pm when DH and I went to bed. Then I'd lay in bed freaking out and it took me a good hour or two to go to sleep sometimes with random getting up and checking on her and then i'd wake periodically all night long. I was exhausted. I didn't like anyone else taking care of her. I worried about things like people not feeding or changing her or her being shaken by DH or her caregivers... I feared that my MIL or SIL (who watched her for us at first) would take her in the car and they would get into an accident. It was intense. I didn't have many physical symptoms other than feeling a bit nauseated and tummy issues from worrying so much. No like anxiety 'attacks' per say.