Has anyone experienced anxiety/ depression and or intense physical side effects from
weaning from breastfeeding? I stopped feeding my daughter at the beginning of last month after 2 years of breastfeeding. We had been winding down leading up to this and she was only on one feed a day by this point. I expected a level of personal upheaval as I experienced intense anxiety and depression when I weaning my son at 17 months but I quicklY fell pregnant with my daughter and I think that impacted my hormones. All told I have been pretty much continually pregnant or breastfeeding for 5 years so I know I will be experiencing a big change in hormones. This time I’m really struggling. I have intense anxiety/ low mood/ feelings of panic etc. my first period since weaning was HORRENDOUS- I had the worst pmt I have ever experienced and I had a terrible series of migraines (3 in 4 days) with terrible auras that took well over a week to recover from. I’m also experiencing disturbed sleep, dizziness, restlessness and hot flushes. It’s about 5 weeks since we fully weaned. I just wondered how long I can reasonably expect this to last before I need to seriously seek help (I have submitted a self referral for CBT but the wait is LOOOONG). I experienced bad post natal depression when I had my daughter and only recently weaned off of anti-depressants which I know is also likely to be at play here but also means I am keen not to re-start any medication as it was very intense adjusting to taking and then stopping these meds and the side effects were not fun! Has anyone had a similar experience?