will natural progesterone help pnd?

[arwen]

I suffered v. badly with pnd with ds which went completley unoticed by all health professionals. Had thought I was doing really well with dd (3 months) but am now noticing lots of sypmtons and am realising am not as well as I should be. Bad days have become bad 2 weeks. I need to put the brakes on this as it took so long to recover last time. Am trying St Johns wort but only for 4 days and apparently it will take 3 weeks ish to work. I don't want to have become a paranoid recluse by then and have heard natural progesterone might help but all stuff I have found is conflicting and unclear. Has anyone used it for pnd? Did it work and how do you know how much to use? REALLY don't want to turn to ads as I feel I might have an addictive personality if such a thing exsists. Would just rather not go down that route unless absolutley necessary. I now alcohol , choclate and caffeine don't help but they are all I crave currently!

yes kizzie they are both on seroxat - my dad for about 7 yrears now and my sister for 4 years. Not sure that my dad has ever tried to come right off it, only to lower his dose or been through short periods when he has run out of pills.
My sister has tried to come off it loads of times and has tried to stop completely and also to lower the dose slowly.
They both have suffered extreme panic attacks/ felt very low/ felt they are not coping without the drug.

Thing is I don't know how intent they are on coming off it. They both seem almost happy to just keep taking the pills and seem to have accepted the fact that they need it. Neither of them have looked for the root of their depression or tried to seek any other ways of dealing with it. While this is deeply saddening and frustrating to me I feel I have no right to get angry about it or to meddle in their lives and be evangelistic on the effects of ad's.

I would love to accept your offer of more info on seroxat but i'm not sure if I would be p*ing them off if I sent it to them, maybe I should just leave them to it even though I want to help them........... what do you think? Is the info on seroxat itself or how to come off them? What would you do if you were in my shoes?

Hi Midden - its very very difficult - not sure what to advise really but I think the most important thing is that they need to really want to get off themselves to do it. It really can be very very hard.
I think probably if I was in your shoes I'd just be aware of it and then IF one of them ever mentions to you that they want to come off but just cant manage it then offer to help them through it.
The most important thing to remember if they do ever decide to come off is that they need to do it really really slowly (almost ridiculously slowly really by cutting tiny bits of tablets).
If you're ever in that position then let me know and I'll pass on any info. If by any chance you cant get ho,d of me just do a google search on seroxat - theres tons of stuff on the internet. If you just want to get a bit of background info look up the seroxat user group. It has some withdrawal plans on it. Unfortunately the forum isnt up and running anymore but theres still loads of info there.
Kizziex

thanks kizzie - feel so sad about this but you are right I need to wait till they are ready.