i thought the ad's were working but now i feel awful again

[divastrop]

i am 15 weeks pg and been suffering from AND since very early on.i started taking prozac just over 3 weeks ago as i knew i needed something to help me(i was at rock bottom almost)and i took them in my last pg and they helped alot.i started to feel better after a week,i could see the light at the end of the tunnel again and started to look forward a little.

however,for the past 4 days or so i have felt myself sliding again.i am thinking bad thoughts all the time,like im a bad mother and i dont deserve to be with my dp cos im a miserable fat old cow and he is young and gorgeous and a decent ,kind man etc.

i get annoyed with myself for feeling like this,i should be happy,i have no reason not to be as i have 4 lovely children and one on the way and a lovely dp and a home etc yet i feel worthless and stupid cos i cant pull myself together and look on the positive side of things.

i dont know what i can do now,just when i start to feel better it seems everything comes crashing down again and i just dont know where to turn anymore.

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I have been on prozac twice and I would say to be honest it wouldn't be the actual tablets making you feel fine after only a week. They take quite a while to kick in. Probably the fact that you had started on medication made you feel better and brighter. They will kick in hun just give them another week or so.

I would say if you still don'tt feel any better 4-6 weeks after starting them to go back to Gp

thanks for replying.i do get some time to relax when the kids are at school.dd2 is 9 months old and pretty easy to look after,plus dp does his fair share of household stuff so im not always rushing around.

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thanks magnolia-i think ur right,it was prob just cos i knew i was doing something about how i was feeling i felt more positive at the time.looking back i think i was 20 weeks when i started taking the prozac in my last pg and i dont remember feeling better till i was 25 weeks or more.
im just worried that itll be too late when i do start feeling better,that i will already have messed things up too much to get back to normal

Hello divastrop, I have just come over from the March 2007 thread when I saw your post. The other posts about prozac are right, you know, it will take a few more weeks before you're feeling better. I have experienced AND and PND and know it's miserable so just wanted to say and hope the ads start working soon.

Anyway, this will make you laugh, a (male) GP said to me that AND doesn't last long as the 'euphoria' of being pregnant soon kicks in What, the euphoria of feeling like sh*t for 9 months + ??? I must have missed that

Hope you feel better soon.

hello anniediv.the only time i can remember feeling euphoric was just after giving birth(to the last 2 anyway)when they took the drip out of my arm and i jumped off the bed and practically ran to the shower thinking'yes!the baby is out!!!i can be normal again!'

i know that sounds awful and people will wonder why i put myself(and my family)through it again,but its so easy to forget how bad pregnancy can get when u have a wonderful little bundle of love to cuddle.i nkow its worth it in the end,but its trying to get through the middle that im finding difficult.

Divastrop, I know just what you mean. That is one of the reasons I haven't told anyone (hardly) about being pg as they've seen what I was like the first 3 times, they must thinks I'm crazy. I just keep thinking about this time next year when I know I won't have to be pregnant again (dh been snipped). I hope you feel better soon.

i feel a bit more positive this morning as i saw my gp and she is going to refer me for CBT,which theyve just started doing where i live.also,she is going to write to my consultant in a couple of months and ask if they will sterelise me after ive had the baby.i know i dont want to go through this again!
she also said what others on here have said,that prozac can take up to 5 weeks to start working so i just have to hang on in there