Hi all,
so I'm going through a rough patch at the mo and wondered if any of you wise people had any advice.
I had been on 100mg of sertraline for about 15 years but was in an ok place so decided to reduce the dose to try for a baby. Now been on 50mg for about 6 months. However, I'm finding myself getting into OCD thinking patterns and behaviours, general anxiety and panic is severe and my IBS is reacting.
I've had a few bad stomach upsets which cause panic but also just general day to day stuff my tummy is sensitive. I've struggled to be at a healthy weight all my life, got to my goal a year ago but am now back to being underweight due to not being able to eat well with the IBS.
I went to the Dr who gave me a leaflet for talking matters, I self referred and did a 6 week online CBT course which is coming to an end soon. I think my GAD scores went down a couple of points but I'm still definitely not where I want to be.
So I plan on going back to the Dr on Mon. I've got a few thoughts about what to do.
1) Increase my medication again but worried about side effects of this.
2)Find a therapist outside the NHS but I know these are expensive and I only work part time so not ideal
3)Ask the Dr for medication to help with IBS which might ease the anxiety as it does cause a lot of problems in terms of adding to the panic cycle
4) Restrict my diet. This is a tricky subject for me because my obsessive nature wants to take control and 'do something!' but I need food to put on weight, it's not the food that's the problem so I don't want to start labelling it as 'bad'.
Thanks for reading, even if no-one replies it's helpful for me to get my thoughts out of my head
Vicky
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