Thank you for doing this AMA, as I'm sure you know, there's so many women struggling.
I would like some information about SSRIs.
I turned 50 in Jan. After my husband's death from cancer in 2017 I went into peri.... I suspect the trauma and grief triggered it. I struggled with the ptsd-like grief and the peri symptoms and crippling anxiety on my own until 2019 when I started to see a therapist. She and my Nurse Pract. got me on Celexa and it was life changing. Not only did it eliminate the anxiety it toned down the hot flashes and night sweats to almost nothing. I went off of it at Christmas 2021 and the anxiety has not returned. I still over heat easily, but with way less intensity than before. Periods are still becoming more erratic. It's like the medication trained my brain to not over-react to stimulus.
I would like to know of similar acting SSRIs. Celexa worked great for me, but I understand that this kind of medication doesn't work for everyone and I think it would be valuable to know alternatives.
I also kind of dread the idea that peri is only taking a break now that I'm managing stress better, and it's going to come roaring back later. Am I right to worry?
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Thank you for doing this AMA, as I'm sure you know, there's so many women struggling.
I would like some information about SSRIs.
I turned 50 in Jan. After my husband's death from cancer in 2017 I went into peri.... I suspect the trauma and grief triggered it. I struggled with the ptsd-like grief and the peri symptoms and crippling anxiety on my own until 2019 when I started to see a therapist. She and my Nurse Pract. got me on Celexa and it was life changing. Not only did it eliminate the anxiety it toned down the hot flashes and night sweats to almost nothing. I went off of it at Christmas 2021 and the anxiety has not returned. I still over heat easily, but with way less intensity than before. Periods are still becoming more erratic. It's like the medication trained my brain to not over-react to stimulus.
I would like to know of similar acting SSRIs. Celexa worked great for me, but I understand that this kind of medication doesn't work for everyone and I think it would be valuable to know alternatives.
I also kind of dread the idea that peri is only taking a break now that I'm managing stress better, and it's going to come roaring back later. Am I right to worry?
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