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Started Pristiq again recently to help with PPD and am anxious about sexual dysfunction happening for me. Last time I tried to start this drug I was literally numb down below from day one and didn’t take it longer than a week to see if it improved. After a long scary pregnancy and recovery from emergency c section, I don’t now want sexual side effects from an antidepressant. Is it guaranteed or have some avoided it??

My OB isn’t recommending that I stop my LDN leading up to birth this coming week. From what I have read you usually stop 3 days prior to any surgery to avoid the pain relief not working. Has anyone gone through child birth without stopping their LDN prior? My only concern is needing an emergency caesarean and the LDN blocking the pain relief but my OB said it’s entirely up to me and doesn’t believe it will have any impact or that I need to stop it, so just hoping for some experiences to go off.

About to bring my first baby earthisde after many losses and he has measured large (95th percentile and 98th percentile head) at our last two scans. We have a 36wk scan tomorrow to check in but I’m feeling quite nervous that he will still be measuring large. Has anyone had measurements like this and gone on to safely deliver naturally? Or should I be mentally and emotionally preparing myself to be planning an induction or c section? I just wanted to gain some perspective and hear some experiences before I’m hit with any information tomorrow.

Have an appt to discuss with my doctor in a week but wondering if anyone has started Pristiq in their third trimester and carried on using during breastfeeding? My dr offered it to me again earlier in my pregnancy but I was doing fine until now. I lost my soul dog nearly two weeks ago and am struggling so much. She’s the only thing that kept me alive the last 15yrs and was my whole world. I’m about to have a baby (just over 35wks now) and I don’t have a single happy or even close to positive cell in my body. It SHOULD be the happiest time of my life, I’d been TTC for almost half my life and have had so many pregnancy losses, to be where I’m at now SHOULD be an overwhelming happy time, but instead I’m absolutely heartbroken and not coping at all. I also have no family or friends to build a village so I’m feeling very overwhelmed and scared of starting this new hardcore chapter of life with no support. I’d rather not start on anything at this point, I try to avoid taking it at all costs in general despite having been prescribed it for most of my life, but I feel concerned that continuing to try and fight on without help isn’t going to end well and I need to be okay for my baby. I’ve tried so many other meds and Pristiq is the only one that’s ever helped me so I don’t want to try anything else.

After trying everything else and having terrible experiences, I was doing well on Pristiq a few years back and have been considering starting it up again after my baby is born. My only issue is, the last time I tried to start taking it again, I lost all sensation and ability to reach O, and as a very highly sexual person, I didn’t continue after even a week of experiencing this. When I was taking it the first time around I wasn’t in any kind of sexual relationships and don’t recall it causing me any issues, if it did I wouldn’t have noticed. I weaned off it not long after beginning a new relationship and can’t remember if it affected me this way during the early days of the relationship - I don’t think it did, so wonder if it is just a temporary side effect, but am scared to try and it become permanent. Has anyone experienced similar and it just been a temporary side effect? I know it will really help me in so many ways but if it numbs me it basically undoes all the positive benefits I get from it.

Lost my baby girl a little over a week ago now and I’m not coping at all. I feel like I have to be okay around my partner though because I don’t think he gets it and sees it like I’m carrying on. He’s only been in my life a little while and I had my girl go 15yrs. I’m in absolute unbearable agony. She was the love and light of my life and my only reason for being here. I have another little dog but he’s not the same. My girl was never a dog, she was a replacement child to me after spending half my life TTC and having lots of pregnancy losses. She was my whole world for 15yrs. My family. Love of my life. She was always with me, literally always, and fell asleep in my arms every night. I’ve never felt love like this. And I never will again. I try to cuddle my other dog and he’s just not interested and it is breaking my heart more and more every moment of every day realising I’ll never ever feel that love and bond I had with her ever again. I just don’t want to do life without her, I really don’t.