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Helloooooo fellow PMDDers... I have been suffering with debilitating anxiety, depression, irritability, anger, emotions, etc for YEARS and finally expressed this to my doc on Monday. Here I am, 5 days before my next period, so fed up with these symptoms that make me feel so out of control and completely hopeless. She told me what I was experiencing and prescribed Sprintec (birth control) and I'm picking it up tonight and starting it right away.
I'm 3 years postpartum and the PMDD symptoms I think have always been there and I just chalked it up to normal PMS because, as young women, we are basically shoved into this cliche of emotional distress during our time of the month. Little did I know I'm in fact NOT crazy and what I'm feeling is so very real.
I don't know where I'm going with this, other than I'm glad to have found a community of women who suffer with this as well. Not that I'm glad you're suffering, but I'm glad we're not alone 🩷 I only hope the birth control helps.
Is anyone else here on Sprintec or other forms of contraceptives for PMDD? if so, did you notice an improvement once you started it?? (I also suffer with intense ovulation pain/spotting so I have a very limited window of relief per month. She mentioned the Sprintec would help with period and ovulation pain, as well.)