Gp dismissive of pnd?

[BerylSilverstone]

I never post in aibu but I’m not sure if I’m reasonable or not in this situation.
I have an 8 week old baby and been feeling pretty low for a couple of weeks. I know it’s normal to be tired with such a young baby (I have 2 other children as well) but I’ve been finding myself in tears a lot. I feel better for a couple of days and then from nowhere I’m in tears again.
I’ve also been having a poor appetite and feeling very guilty for feeling low and feeling like I’m burdening my husband with how I’ve been feeling.
I have a history of anxiety and take 20mg fluoxetine daily. I didn’t have w great pregnancy- gestational diabetes that needed insulin, sepsis during labour and ended up with an unplanned c section.
I felt so low yesterday that I contacted the gp who basically said it’s pretty much normal to be like that with a young baby because it isn’t all rosy and that they didn’t think I needed a higher dose of anti depressant because “they can make you feel like there’s something wrong with you”.
They did ask me if I have a good supports in place. She then said phone the health visitor who will put you in touch with support groups and give you a questionnaire. I’m assuming this is the Edinburgh scale. I really feel like it was all quite dismissive and that they acknowledge pnd exists but you’ve just got to put up with it. I know this isn’t the attitude of many health professionals but still I felt it wasn’t taken seriously by this particular gp.
Don’t know why i’m really posting this, just need to get it off my chest I think!

Phone back and tell them that, due to your history you're more at risk of developing pnd. Antidepressants are a legitimate and effective way of treating it and you know how your own mind is working and you'd like a medication review with a view to increasing the dose.

The GP is clearly clueless - many of them are with mental health. Don't take any notice of what she said, many of them peddle out of date information and personal views when they should be up to date and remain objective. Treating patients like fools or children is rather 1970s.

Another route is to speak to your health visitor and ask her to help you access a proper GP consultation following the questionnaire. You might have to approach this laterally.

That’s awful, I’m really sorry. You could also ask for a referral to the perinatal mental health team who are usually amazing. They may suggest switching to another SSRI (I switched a few years ago from Fluoxetine to Escitalopram, which worked well). Good luck x