anti depressants...

[marblesgone]

hello.

I am new to this site and also only recently semi diagnosed.

I am so down and fed up as well as crying an awful lot. My boyfriend has been golden but he must be fed up and saddened by my constant misery. I can't rise above it or pretend I dont feel down and in pain for most of the month.

I waiting for my first gynecologist appointment but I'm in despair. My gp did say anti depressants could be about option. I have taken them in the past and found them useful but would they be of any benefit in this instance?

My symptoms have been going on for around 7 or more years but the last 6 months they have got to an all time low.

I need relief mentally.

I'm taking so far;

500 mg mefenamic acid. - helps aid pain a bit but useless if I felt sick due to it needing to be taken with food.

Angus Cactus

Evening Primrose

B12

Iron supplement

Any suggestions would be gratefully recieved.

Thank you

[Chrissie66]

Hi

I think most of us on this site are on antidepressants or have been on antidepressants at some time in our lives. Endometriosis piles on the pressure mentally and those symptoms need attention as much as the physical ones

Check with your GP that the alternative meds you're taking won't clash with anything they prescribe, but yes, I would say go for it.

Good luck, and I hope you feel better

C x

[Duckybun]

Hi marbles,

Aw pet I know exactly how you feel. I went to my gp well before my diagnosis of endo in misery due to pain and pms and came away with a prescription for antidepressants. To be honest they did help for a while with the pms but at the end of the day I was still in pain. I had a diagnostic lap in nov as part of our fertility investigations, not because ofthw pain and heavy bleeding I've been complaining of to my gp for years, and then went back in for radical excision of severe endo. I've since been back to my gp to discuss ongoing treatment plan for the endo, I told her that I think the prescription for antidepressants was pointless and unnessecary. Of course I felt down! I was in agony, exhausted, permanently anaemic and was pushing myself to the limits to try and function normally whilst physically struggling with a chronic illness I didn't know I had!

I would say, if you feel like they might help you cope, yes, take them, BUT... Do not stop fighting for correct and proper diagnosis and treatment of your endo. Helping you cope and masking symptoms are two different things, and to tell you the truth when I still got down even on the antidepressants it make me feel totally useless and a failure, but I was in pain and anti Ds do no treat pain!!!

Push for a lap, then push for surgerical options after your diagnosis and make sure you get referred to a gynae who specialises in endometriosis. Do not get fobbed off any longer

Massive hugs Hun, you will feel better when you know what's going on and start finding treatments and coping strategies, have you looked into the endo diet yet?

X

Ducky

[Impatient]

You would take a pain killer if you were in pain, you would take anti-biotics if you had an infections, so why dither about anti-depressants? They give your body the chance to heal too. As you have taken them in the past, did they work? yes. Were you able to stop taking them when you felt recovered enough? if the answer to that is also a yes, then i'd say you ought to give them another chance.

We can all try our best to cope without painkillers, and without anti-biotics and sometimes we can manage and sometimes it was such a bad decision as the situation gets worse. It's the same with anti-depressants, you can try and plough on hoping for a natural recovery, or give your recovery a boost.

As you feel you have reached rock bottom, then visit the GP and get yourself on the road to recovery. It will help you, and your family too, to have you feeling better in your head and you will find that your other battle with gynae problems will become easier to cope with if you have sorted your head out in the meantime. Mental ill health is just as important to get treated as the physical side. Your doc thinks so too, and neither of you knows how long your gynae problems will have to wait for appointments, or what treatments will be offered to you.

Meantime do something about your depression, which is diagnosed and which does need treating too. The trouble with depression is you often don't realise quite how down to are or have much sense of how much better you could be and should be.

Best of luck getting back to the real you.

[marblesgone]

hello.

Thank you so much for you're supportive advise. This is all alien to me and I don't know what to do for the best. It's a bit of a juggling game but I'm sure I'll find a coping strategy.

I will request anti depressants on wed when I see my gp and give it a shot.

Thank you both

[Duckybun]

Hey marbles,

How are you? Have you been back to your gp to discuss where you go to next? Just wanted to touch base with you and let you know if you're still having a hard time you can always rant away on here to us

X

Ducky

[marblesgone]

oh thank you.

I had a relatively pain free day yesterday and a good nights sleep so feeling positive today but it's only 7am, much mood could change at any time. I was very emotionally sensitive yesterday.

Thank you so much for you're concern.

I see the doc this coming Tuesday, through day before I go on holiday to Berlin.

if I don't get chance to update you before I go, I certainly will when I return.

this is my first holiday abroad in 2 years and a city break! ekk. painkillers at the ready.

hope you are all feeling well :).

This group does help take some stress away.

have a good weekend.

x