Week 7 sickness gone, now antenatal depression?

[Hubbythecatandme]

Okay this is starting to worry me now. I had every symptom under the sun, two days of horrendous nausea, cravings, food aversion... now apart from sore boobs and weeing more often, all other symptoms especially sickness seem gone... what is going on??
I am feeling low though, I have a history of depression and I am starting to wonder if despite being on venlafaxin, the black dog is not coming back. Not sure what docs will be able to do about this as I am already on meds? Anybody else had antenatal depression. I was hoping this was not going to happy.... hoping maybe it's just a blip...

Pregnancy makes you horrendously hormonal so probably it is just a blip. I am not prone to depression but remember being anxious and worried about everything in the very first weeks. This subsided a bit once the sickness and tiredness shifted, I think your body can genuinely confuse physical and mental symptoms sometimes.

It is definitely worth taking it up with someone though, in pregnancy they can't give you anything stronger than venlafaxin but counselling and talk therapy can be more helpful anyway. Most places have specialist services (even lots of different ones) for pregnant women that you can be referred to, and these people depending on the service tend to stick around after the pregnancy as well to deal with the risk of postnatal depression.

The reality is though that pregnancy isn't often the rose garden we were often promised , it can be emotionally and physically pretty rough even if you are well and have support.

I had a terrible time in the first few months. I had never been diagnosed with depression before but the doc decided that was exactly what I had. He put me on meds which made the morning sickness and tiredness 1000 times worse! I decided to come off the meds, got a really lovely easy stress free job and stopped throwing up all at 5 months pregnant. The change was immediate! Suddenly I had energy again, wasn't throwing up and actually wanted to get out of bed. Everything has been fine from then on. I think the first trimester is especially hard on your emotions and hormones, I found it definitely levelled out at the 5 month mark. Hope it's the same for you! X

Thank you so much for your answers!
Gp is sending me to perinatal mental health dep which freaked me out a bit at first but think it's mostly so they can watch for PND and review my meds. Feeling guilty to be taking AD whilst pregnant, if baba has sthg wrong I will never forgive myself :(
Today is a tiny bit better, am being very kind to myself, resting, eating healthily, I did my work last night (I work from home) so my target for today is going to the gym with hubby then doing something fun. I think I need to dig out my old CBT file and use the techniques again. Fingers crossed it's just a blip. I hate this illness hehe!!