u/lstyer2012

So as the title states, I'm ten sessions in and have had very very little progress. I felt a burst of positivity after my 2nd treatment big enough that I believed I could go back to school and finally accomplish my dream of doing something to help animals. Since then, I haven't felt anything from the treatments.

I've been getting more concerned since finding out that my clinic doesn't budge from the "twice a week for 4 weeks and then once a week for 8 weeks" treatment schedule. After those 12 weeks, you're done. So I'm halfway thru and haven't had any success and last week my phq-9 was the highest it's been since I started and the doctor was on vacation so I couldn't even talk to him about it.

Any advice? Words of encouragement?

I started Spravato 2 weeks ago. It's been going really well and I've already noticed some positive changes (not sure if it's the placebo effect or if it's actually already working).

Before I started I had googled "Spravato and PMDD" bc I was diagnosed with PMDD this past year and it has been HELL. I found a couple articles that basically said "yes Spravato can help with PMDD". I thought I was in my luteal phase already and I noticed I wasn't feeling the usual "I'm in hell" so I thought the Spravato was helping with it. Then it hit me. 2 days ago I suddenly felt so terrible. Like I would never smile again. The crying spells were back and the paranoia of thinking everyone hated me was also back.

Is there anyone here who has PMDD and has had Spravato treatments? And if so, have you noticed a difference at all in your PMDD?

Hi! I just had my first treatment today. It went well. Pretty tame. They said since I handled it so well they're going to bump me up already for tomorrow's session. Is that normal?

Hi! I posted here before about my struggles with getting approval for insurance coverage when I started this whole thing. Now a couple months later, I'm finally gonna start treatments next week!

Please dump all the advice you have for me here. I've been reading a lot of posts on this sub but I'd like to have a collection of advice in one place. I'm someone with pretty bad anxiety. Like, I have to be careful how much weed I smoke or else I'll have a panic attack (I know not to smoke weed while getting treatments done). So managing my anxiety is my main concern.