PPD and now implant hormones have messed me up!

[SnugSquid]

Hi, I'm very new to this but I am totally at my wits end and just feel completely defeated.
I had a baby girl at the beginning of February and soon after developed Postnatal depression and anxiety. It was so had that I had to get the Perinatal Mental Health Team and sometimes the Crisis Team involved. I "simply" had to just wait for my sertraline and diazepam to kick in, which was the worst two weeks of my life..or so I thought. After they kicked in, I definitely felt better, felt like I was getting back to my normal self.....then I got the implant. To say its made me relapse back to the ppd days would be an understatement. The hormones from it have messed me up and I'm feeling so so down and anxious from the minute I get up in the morning till the minute I cry myself to sleep. I literally can't cope with anything again and thank god I've got a very very supportive mum who has basically stepped to be me whilst I'm like this because all I can do is cry, sleep and repeat. I can't get the implant out till the 11th of April which means another almost 2 weeks of me feeling like this and to be honest, I don't know if I can last that long. All the medical professionals I'm involved with know everything I have wrote but getting the implant out isn't seen as an emergency, I'm to once again wait. But I'm really really struggling, I've spoke to my doctors, my mental health team & my health visitor and even phoned nhs 24 2 times about how i am and the implant I'm not getting anywhere so I've gave up. I am so sad that I'm not getting to be a mum to my children and that I'm stressing my family out again. I just can't do this anymore.

[hk1993x]

Hi hun didn't want to read and run. I had very bad PND and anxiety after my last child seven years ago. I got put on the implant but got it taken out cause it made me worse! Alot of people seem to be affected negatively by the implant.

I'm now in the process of fighting to get the mirena coil out, my mental health has been horrendous and I don't think it's healthy having all these additional hormones in our bodies. It's easy for the guys isn't it?!

Your still very very early into your pnd recovery and your baby isn't that old. I would ask the perinatal mental health team to get involved again to see if they can speed things up.

Take care of yourself x

[SnugSquid]

@hk1993x thank you for your reply! I ended up trying (and failing) to take it out myself last night. Even after that I still couldn't get an emergency appointment at my doctors surgery but thankfully after a very demanding phone call to my local sexual health clinic by my partner this morning, I got offered a priority appointment! Even got asked what time suited me best?? Even though before they said it would be the 15th for the first appointment.

Bloody hormones! I hope you manage to get your coil out soon and that your mental health improves because I know how hard it is to be a mum and have mental health problems. It can be horrendous sometimes. Take care x