u/lactateandlattes

I want to hear stories of treatment that worked, treatment that worked for more than one month.. I need to believe there’s light in the end of the tunnel.

I started treating PMDD only in February. 25mg of sertraline during luteral. Since the first few days amazing. Honey moon!

I could hear the birds singing, I was singing, again, in the shower. Seeing myself pretty!! It was amazing. No more exhaustion, no more depression and anger. I started sleeping like a baby. It even helped with ptsd so I started taking it everyday. But it lasted just one month. Then the symptoms got back. All of them. Even worse. And they last all luteral, and till the last day of bleeding. I’m losing hope. My doctor increased the dose to 50mg but still nothing…

I need to know there’s someone in this world that found a treatment that works… for months, a long time, not just one month. Please.

The demon’s back, and I need hope.

Crying in follicular because of all the dreams I’m giving up because of this disease. That’s it. Feels like I’m grieving the life I could have without PMDD.

On Monday I finally have my gp appointment to discuss my treatment (probably increase sertraline) because my symptoms got so worse in the past two cycles, so I’m so excited to finally see my doctor 🤣 I’ve been waiting for this appointment for over a month and there have been time where I called the practice to beg for an emergency appointment with her while crying in my work toilets. it’s sad that it’s even funny, I’ve only had 2 good weeks in the past two months 😭😵‍💫 and that’s the highlight of my last two months lol

Mines: extreme fatigue, nausea, joint and muscle pain, bloating, body aches, sore and painful legs, and brain fog, dizziness if I bend and definitely some balance issues.

Brain fog lately has been on a level where people talk to me and I can’t even understand much of what they’re saying - my adhd gets super worse and I have zero short term memory.

I literally get all symptoms of an iron deficiency - I’ve already done my blood tests and everything is fine. I was just wondering what are everyone’s physical symptoms as it’s all 100% cycle related for me, because during my good week I don’t have any of these except for normal ADHD symptoms.

Im in the middle of the luteral and lately fatigue has been getting worse. I am fatigued even by walking down the stairs to get water. I woke up at 5:30 to go on my run, and felt like the gravity was 100 times higher, all my joins and muscles were hurting. But still ate a banana and brought myself out of the door. I ran 50m and I felt like some kind force was dragging me back, a sense of sadness and hopelessness. I got back inside and cried.

It’s taking everything away from me. I do my job bad as if I was lazy. I am not present for other people. My symptoms last 3 weeks every month now. And even if it’s not the most essential thing, running is so important for me, like sports in general.. and not being able to train, progress is making me so sad and miserable. I don’t like much, only sports, and I cannot do it.

I do sports, I eat well, I sleep.. I’m taking my meds. What else do I have to do or give up now.