Today was yet another fateful trip to the GP (doctor) about my PMS or what I think might be PMDD. I had a bunch of bloods done, all came back negative, and they think nothing is physicaly wrong with me even though I insist some of my problems & symptoms are of a physical nature.
To cut a long story short, I have very extreme symtoms such as wild mood swings, feeling very sick, having no short term memory/dissasociation, sinus problems and a whole lot more mental & physical symptoms for half the month. These all vanish when my period starts.
Ok, now for the interesting bit, the doctor wanted me to try the anti depressant citalopram, which I am not doing because meds react so badly with me. I can't afford a bad reaction as it could make my violent moods worse and cause me to act on my suicidal thoughts etc. BUT the interesting but is these side effects are EXACTLY the same as my PMDD/PMS symtoms! Now that makes me think I might have something going on in my brain thats being agravated by my monthly hormone changes, but not being caused by them. There are even sinus problems, nausea, mood swings, and they can even make period pain worse and effect your cycle, listed in the side effects.
Something is going on with me, in the ideal world I could find someone who is willing to investigate it in depth, not just fob me off with pills that might kill me or cause me to behave so badly I land up sectioned or in jail. (lets just say when I was on prozac I took about 10k of the value of my mum's house).
Just this finding on it's own has really made me think my problem could be based in my brain with that oh so infamous serotonin. Maybe I have some sort of inbalance that causes my PMS to be extreme and give me all these physical symtoms?
If anyone knows of any way I could get this investigated further, I would be very grateful. I'm in the UK, so if you know names of any professionals etc please let me know. Can be anywhere in the country.
25 Jun 2009, 2:30 pm
