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    Re: Postnatel Anxiety, Please read x

    Quote Originally Posted by JoRo View Post
    Thank you for this post. I've been keeping a diary and it looks like there is a pattern forming!
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    keep filling in your diary, you will notice a pattern and once you do you will then know what level of anxiety to expect at what time which will help you cope with it better. it took me a while to learn the pattern and learn ways to cope but for me, just knowing that hormones are causing the anxiety to flare up helps me because it proves it will get better x
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    Re: Postnatel Anxiety, Please read x

    Quote Originally Posted by dodo View Post
    I truly believe thus is what I am suffering from but the dr doesn't seem willing to accept this explanation. It's so frustrating. I would really like some help and advice with it but they keep fobbing me off. Grrrr.

    Unfortunately my gp was the same, instantly said it was PND so i had to see another gp who confirmed it was PNA, i was offered meds but refused them because i knew i could cope alone and now my gp agrees i dont need meds becqause im coping well and also because each month as my hormones settle so does the anxiety.

    go and see another gp if you want to take meds, but if you dont want to take meds you can cope with it without them, take comfort in the fact that it is hormone based, and your hormones will settle themselves soon enough. dont force yourself to feel better but remember it will get better. x
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    Re: Postnatel Anxiety, Please read x

    thanks for ur reply im hoping it will die down, feel like a right mess the now dont know wheither im coming or going.

    cant even say its cause im so tired she sleeps all night.

    it is a nightmare

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    Re: Postnatel Anxiety, Please read x

    Quote Originally Posted by mumof4 View Post
    thanks for ur reply im hoping it will die down, feel like a right mess the now dont know wheither im coming or going.

    cant even say its cause im so tired she sleeps all night.

    it is a nightmare

    you can still be tired even if she sleeps all night, looking after a baby is exhausting and unlike men even though we are sleeping we are still alert listening for baby, thats why mums wake up and most dads dont even hear them!

    i get sleep most nights but i dont sleep deeply because im still listening out for baby. plus looking after them in the day can be tiring and anxiety is tiring in itself because it drains you emotionally and physically.

    it will get better, give it time and enjoy your little one xx
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    Re: Postnatel Anxiety, Please read x

    Quote Originally Posted by dodo View Post
    Jen. My child is now 1 1/2 and I could have written your post. Mine was very intense straight after birth, I started getting palpitations - which I mentioned while I was in hospital and they just basically ignored.

    It was so bad at the beginning that I missed out on a lot of things and social activities because of my anxiety.

    When my periods came back at 6 months it started to get a bit more of a pattern to it and I noticed it was starting off about 10 days before my period was due and then would tail off a few days after my period started.

    This is like clockwork now every month. It gets really bad and this month - yesterday - I was stuck down with fear in the supermarket. I have been having a heavy hearbeat for a couple of days solid.

    If you read this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premens...horic_disorder

    this sums me up to a T.
    That was a very interesting read and i'm now wondering if thats what i've got! my baby is 14month old and was premature, i've been treated twice for cancer in the past so thought i'd have been sterile and also my husband had a vasectomy 15yrs before baby was born!!! I had bee diagnosed with borderline under active thyroid and was prescribed thyroxine 25mg, then when docs found i was pregnant they upped the dosage to what ALL pregnant woman have which is 100mg but it proved to be way too much for me and caused over active thyroid, I starting loosing weight rapidly and baby failed to grow from 30 weeks so had to be delivered a month prem weighing just 3lb 3oz, there medication cock-ups caused me to suffer with hypertension and high blood pressure then when baby came home at only 3lb 10oz thats when the severe anxiety attacts started, they where really bad, I've started my propranolol 10mg today and its the second day of my period, I get the palpataions, head aches anxiety/panic the palpatations are that bad i'm having to see an heart specialist next month because a 24hr heart monitor gave a couple of readings of my heart rate being 194, while am at the hospital i'm gonna tell them all whats happened with me, I've always put my head aches down to menstural migraine and that i'm an anxiety sufferer but i'm gonna mention this artical to my own GP when i have to go again.
    Many thanks for posting xx

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