I'm so sorry you're dealing with depression and with hormonal issues. The two together really affect a woman's life in so many, many ways.
My advice is this: Because the Pristiq did not work for you and you are weaning off of it to two other medicines, you need to keep everything else stable right now. You need to let the new anti-depressant medicine have a chance to work so that you'll know what effect it has. If you start trying to change up other things on your own, you won't know what was because of the new meds and what was because of the change in hormones.
And then after the new meds get established in your body and you know what effect they are having, then revisit the doctor who has prescribed the natural progesterone and testosterone cream and see if those levels need to be changed at all. Don't do this on your own, Gblondie, OK?
I understand your blahhhhhhs state, coming off the Pristiq and waiting for the other meds to kick in. I also have dealt with depression and know what it's like. But our hormones are very tricky things, and you don't want to be changing too much at once.
Does that make sense? Will you wait until the meds kick in, and then go back and talk to the doctor who is treating your estrogen dominance to see if your hormone medicines need to be changed?
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Gblondie,
I'm so sorry you're dealing with depression and with hormonal issues. The two together really affect a woman's life in so many, many ways.
My advice is this: Because the Pristiq did not work for you and you are weaning off of it to two other medicines, you need to keep everything else stable right now. You need to let the new anti-depressant medicine have a chance to work so that you'll know what effect it has. If you start trying to change up other things on your own, you won't know what was because of the new meds and what was because of the change in hormones.
And then after the new meds get established in your body and you know what effect they are having, then revisit the doctor who has prescribed the natural progesterone and testosterone cream and see if those levels need to be changed at all. Don't do this on your own, Gblondie, OK?
I understand your blahhhhhhs state, coming off the Pristiq and waiting for the other meds to kick in. I also have dealt with depression and know what it's like. But our hormones are very tricky things, and you don't want to be changing too much at once.
Does that make sense? Will you wait until the meds kick in, and then go back and talk to the doctor who is treating your estrogen dominance to see if your hormone medicines need to be changed?
March 11, 2010 - 10:18amThis Comment
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