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Hi,
I have been upping the "natural approach" over the last few months because I learn't through psychotherapy that I really had to care for myself. First to go was processed food and first to come in was exercise. I am aware of how to cook properly and I did my research too so I am satisfied that I am doing this right. I make sure that I eat tryptophan rich foods, mix them with the correct proprtions of carbs to wash the other competing amino acids into the musculature etc etc.
I made lifestyle changes and now have coping mechanisms for stress, get enough sleep and so on. Psychotherapy helped here to and I have been resolving some difficult childhood abuses. My psychotherapist can do no more now, hence the "discharge" but I haven't dropped all psychosocial interventions and am completing stress at work courses, effective time management and will be seeing a CPN for further advice.
I work closely with my GP on who's suggestion I started vit b6, that and the agnus castus I have only been taking for the last month. That's when the caffeine went too.
I can only get L-tryptophan shipped in or prescribed which I can't do just yet as I am on a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. But believe me I will be talking with my GP about this next week. I am also likely to be further referred to a research project in London re PMDD so I'm pretty sure the diagnosis is correct. I have had concurrent depression with the PMDD but I am not depressed any more. I fill in a premenstural visual log and plan plan plan.
I make up a "PMDD" pack with camomile teas, fibre bars, dried fruit, pain relief (brufen), hot pads so that I don't break and reach for the chocolate when the PMDD comes.
I don't think there is much else I can do right now but I'm here again, in tears, cloudy, hungry, defocused, sore and disabled by my PMDD which I have had since I started menstruating and seems to get worse with age. I reckon that hitting the menopause is going to be a pretty liberating experience for me and I know I shouldn't wish my life away but right now......
Frances-Ruth
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