How long to wait?

[ekblad9]

I had horrific PPD with my fifth child. I scored like 80 something on that test. I went to my homeopath and he put me on meds right away. Clearly I had waited too long. I was miserable.

I didn't have PPD after my sixth child. Not even any signs that I can remember. Scored 11 on the test a few weeks after he was born.

I'm unclear what's happening this time. I don't have the horrible anxiety, anger, fear, panic attacks that I had before but something doesn't feel right. : I'm not sad but not happy either. I don't feel either way. I don't really know what to do. The baby is three weeks old in a couple of days. I don't want to wait too long to seek help. I don't want to be paranoid and seek help too early. Weaning off of those meds was not fun. I don't want to take them if I don't really need them.

I guess I'm babbling. I'm sorry....:

[Nisupulla]

Before I read your whole post, I would have said, "Don't wait, get help now." It takes a while to get an appointment, it takes a while for the meds to work. You can always change your mind if things are set up. It seems to me with PPD sometimes it takes a turn for the worse unexpectedly and rapidly.

After reading your post, getting help seems a little less urgent. You know your body, you know your history. Maybe you could call your prescriber or therapist and get the ball rolling, just in case. Would it be comforting to know you have meds in the cupboard and could take them if you need them? In that case, fill the script.

Hope you avoid full-blown PPD this time around!

[ekblad9]

I do have a very low dose of meds in the cupboard. I had just weaned when I got pg this time. So it's there if I need it. I had a really hard time sleeping last night (anxiety. ) so I think I should probably call my doc.

[Nisupulla]

yeah.

[lilysmama1124]

s: It was hard for me to decide that I needed help too. My PPD was very different from other depression I had experienced in the past because sometimes I was great and other times I wasn't okay at all. I would cycle all day long. Zoloft has been a miracle for me and as I said in the previous thread I am happier than I have ever been and I am only on 37.5mg of Zoloft. Something I read somewhere(maybe here) helped me. It said that sometimes depression is like dusk after a bright day, you don't realize how dark it is until you think to turn on the light. ( I think that is it). You've been through it before so trust yourself to make the right decision but try to think about the difference between how you feel now and how you felt on meds was it a big enough positive difference to be worth going through the weaning process again?