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Glad you bumped this - I'd like to know too. I've never been dx'd with PMDD, but 1 week before and 1 of the 2 weeks during my cycle, my depression is bad.
I'm hoping my new Psych nurse will have an answer for me.
What do they usually prescribe for PMDD?
Good luck! :)

thanks for adding to the discussion. I do not know what PMDD gets prescribed.

I do hope someone here knows at some point.

I was just put on Seasonale to help deal with the PMDD/extra moodiness around my period.

Doc says that if I avoid my period all together, I won't have the PMDD anymore.

It's working so far!!

Thanks gimme -

If you want to email me offlist, feel free.

Are you on any other meds? Please please please

Always make sure your Dr. does NOT put you on Birth Control Pills with Progesterone - Us BPs can dip into deep depressions with it.
Seasonale is one that doesn't have Progesterone, but I still have to question it for myself due to my age...yay, another reminder. :)

oh, i see, from looking it up, seasonal is a contraceptive pill...

Yeah, I think that is the question:
Birth control pills / hormones
OR
Anti-depressants?
OR both?
Which does one do? I'm hoping for answers this week.

yeah, i am not interested in a birht control pill and I am already on Cymbalta and that does nothing for my irritability before ovulation.

Great post... I too am going to bring this up to my doctor this week. I see her on friday and now that I am stabiling out my PMDD is definantly playing havoc. I would just get my primary doc to prescribe but I have no insurance and I am sure its not cheap. So I am going to see if the psyc doc can under that insurance plan (only covers psyc stuff) but seeing how it plays hell with my BP and mood swings I would think it was justifiable

A well-meaning Ob/Gyn put me on progesterone for my gut-wrenching, debilitating anxiety and it made it ten times worse! Also, ladies (and interested gentlemen) I have a fabulous book to recommend. "Wome's Moods, What Every Woman Must Know About Hormones, the Brain and Emotional Health" by Deborah Sichel MD and Jeanne Driscoll MS RN CS. You can buy used copies on Amazon and the book devotes quite a large section to BP 1 and BP 2 along with other mental health disorders.

I am thinking, "If the medical community can use an anti-convulscent, like Depakote for BP, can't a traditionally PMDD med be used for BP, too?"

Please rember to post what you learn when you get back from your doc appnt.

Anti depressants is what they use to treat PMDD ..I ve had this issue for years (since I was 12) but i will not go on more meds ..WILL NOT ...and back to the point i wanted to get too. There are many studies out now speaking about how very dangerous these meds are that cause no menstration. Its our bodies way of shedding lineing .which it has to do ! Side affects for this medication is bloodclots and death..afew others im sure but they dont mater when you shoot a clot from these pills they wanna give out to those young girls.

I was just in the PMS discussion and a lot of women use primrose oil. I wonder for what conditions...

I have BP Mania (no depression) so I'm good on Progesterone.