Lexapro for perimenopause
Hi all. So I’ll try to be brief here. I’m only 38 but have been suspected I’ve started perimenopause already (my mom started early). I’ve already had lifelong anxiety, and peri has ramped it up times a thousand because of the hormones.
This is a compounding problem because I already have anxiety + horrible health anxiety (Random itch? Must be a spider bite, gonna get infected, have to go to the ER etc etc etc). My health anxiety is bad. I have also developed GERD, which is also bad. I have regurgitative reflux.
Anyway, my PCP prescribed me this, 5mg. I really respect and like her has a doctor and I don’t think she’s a quack or anything. I’ve just been yo-yo-ing through depressive episodes recently and with everything on top of that, she thinks that lessening my stress/anxiety will help disappear a lot of my symptoms. She thinks lowering my anxiety will help my GERD and the emotional turmoil of perimenopause plus my underlying stuff.
Unfortunately because I have anxiety (lol) I can’t bring myself to start this. (Fear of side effects + health anxiety). My question is, has anyone had these problems (like peri/GERD) and had antidepressants help?