Ovulation - Anxiety-Panic-Heart Racing Part 1 of 2

Lately (last year or so) that is my worst time - about a week/10 days before my cycle. Maybe my age (42) has something to do with it....

Karen

Hi again
I deleted other thread it was a duplicate I am doing the same lol
Tired right out
Take care
LYN

Yes, I've got a diary from the last couple of months that can prove before and during my period and once again at ovulation my anxiety and depression gets heaps worse.

I'm actually seeing a gyno tomorrow but unless he can figure exactly what hormone is triggering it I'm not touching hormones. A different gyno tried that a few years ago and I practically lost it within the first couple of days of these added hormones.

I've decided to increase my prozac instead as when my zoloft was working I never noticed a drop like I do now.

Hi again, just got another thought. could it be perimenopause? I am 43 years old. I think i have expireienced some hot flashes during the day with anxiety, also i sweat at night, NIGHT SWEATS? I can handle the sweating, but not the heart racing, that puts me in overdrive and i start to panic, and then it develops into a panic attack. so i dont know what comes first. is this all anxiety, or am i perimenapausal, which then in turn i panic because the heart thing scares me...

wannabbetter, yes it was some sort of birthcontrol they gave me. Normally it was an injection that lasts 3 months but they gave me the tablet form luckily so I could stop it straight away.

My GP has also said testing hormones is a waste of time as they flucuate hourly, so there must be something else they can do to test it.

I'm 37 and my old pdoc said it's very likely perimenopause. that can last up to 7 to 10yrs before menopause and is actually meant to be worse then the actual menopause. My cousin was 40 and my mum 45 so I can only hope I'll go through it early as well.

My gyno had to cancel his appointment as he had an emergency C-section to do. If my higher level of prozac stabilises me through my hormones I don't think I'll bother going the gyno route.
I was thinking about it today, they admit hormone tests are a waste of time so all it'd be is them trying different hormones which if given the wrong ones is exactly what I don't need.

Hi, I googled anxiety and ovulation and I found this group.  My gyno put me on seasonale for birth control last year and I bled non-stop for three months.  I switched to Yasmin and that's when it started.  I was grouchy and having panic attacks which I never had before.  I stopped the Yasmin and told the gyno who just offered a different birth control pill, zoloft or paxil then decided to give me a script for ambien because the panic attacks happen at night. 

 

Well I'm not happy with they gynecologist as I felt she was very dismissive of my problem.  I'm not crazy about starting to take a medication like zoloft that I will be on for a long time, but I'm ready to crack because I can't stand the bad thoughts and crying jags.  It all seems tied into ovulation.  I'm fine the other two weeks of the month, but I can't be out of mind 50% of the time. 

 

Any input would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!    I really need to do something and I just don't know what is the right thing to do other than find a new doctor.

Serenityseeker, you definitely should find a new doctor.  I am in the process of finding a new one myself.  My doctor refuses to perscribe anything narcotic, meaning that a lot of tranquilizer/anxiety helpers/painkillers aren't available to me at her choice.  Right now she has me on buspirone, which doesn't really help my anxiety at all.  It is so hard to be at the mercy of unhelpful people who are in a position like that.  I seem to (nowadays) be only having anxiety during ovulation, and around menstration OR if something really out of the ordinary happens to trigger it.  I usually get severely depressed during menstration also.  I went through most SSRIs, and Celexa, which used to help me after I had tried so many others, actually gave me 24 hour a day anxiety when I tried starting it again.  Not just mild anxiety but very serious attacks.  I couldn't sleep, eat, or function, so I had to stop taking it and she refused to give me anything else and told me to get mental help.  The problem with this is that I am on state insurance and the place I can go is so backed up that it is up to a month to even get an intake and 3 months to see a med doctor.  Apparently she doesn't care a bit about what I am going through in the meantime.  I used to have a competent med doctor a few years ago who perscribed me clonazepam to take when I had severe anxiety.  Just .5 mg made a huge difference.  I didn't need it every day, and I didn't abuse it.  I quit using them because I was pregnant, but in my "hormonal" times I could sure use one now and then.  If you have no luck with a new gyno, perhaps looking into mental health professionals would help, even if it seems homonal rather than mental, since no doctor I've ever seen seems to have any answers about hormone related anxiety.  

I Guess I went on for a while, but I'm actually in one of those anxiety ridden times and know I am just a few days away from the depressive despair I have monthly, so I appreciate this forum.  Good luck, and remember:  You are in charge of your health, not them.  If their choices don't seem right, or they aren't giving the issue the proper attention and effort you have a right to call them on it.  They work for you!!!  They are supposed to be there to help you.  That's what they're paid for.

 

Chelly,

I'm so glad you brought this thread back up! I have noticed that I get more anxious about 10 days before my period starts too (this month it's 12 days before - my anxiety jumped up a notch yesterday and just won't settle back down), and there's not much I can do to control it. Deep breathing and other tactics don't make much of a dent. Also, I'm nearly 44, so possibly perimenopause is kicking in.

So is your acupuncturist treating you for hormone imbalance?

percycat

gigi91709

Welcome to HeaingWell and the A & P forum.  I am glad you found us and I see you have met a couple of the members who were able to share with you. 

Please stay with us. I have found the support, validation and encouragement that I receive here, to be so helpful and healing. I hope and trust that will be your experience as a member of the HW family.
Kitt

Following the first days of your period it is not just about hormone iincrease, but also the fact the your brain grows more synases for serotonin. When you ovulate and the "succes" doesn't grow all sorts of receptor, but that moment is passd there is reaction to kill the serontonin resptors (just the new ones) that were estrogen sensive(the new mdid both well.)   I had the symptoms of sever ePMDD, but they occur on day 2-4 of my cycle. I am a danger to myself and  OTHRS.

quietpain 

I have never posted anything before in my life. I googled depressed and ovulation and this is where I went. I read everyones posts and I kept thinking, well I don't have that so maybe I am just making this up in my head. I don't seem to be able to validate my depressed feelings around the time of my period and 11 days after( when I ovulate). I have documented the past few months when I feel bad-and it is the exact time, but then I say to myself well you know it is coming so you are making yourself feel bad. I am so sick of feeling like this. It is when I ovulate,right before my period and during. I only have a 25 day cycle so it seems like the good days are few and in between. I am 34, I have try to do everything right. I run 5 miles a day and also do another workout when I feel bad, because they say exercise is good for you. All I know if I did not have three children, I don't think I could continue like this. I am so sad and angry and I just feel helpless. I have gone to doctors before and they have they put me on the medication when you take it before your period-it did not help. My husband is very supportive, but when you hate yourself, why would you expect anyone to love you. I don't even know why I posted this, I just feel desperate and unsure of myself anymore.