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Post by tigger on Feb 13, 2014 14:37:53 GMT -5
It was easy... ish. My husband was in chemo for cancer and I was bleeding for the first time in two years. He HAD to test to rule out. That and I think he secretly hoped that a negative result would shut me up. He quickly learned to listen to me when the subject was my body.
I didn't have a family history but did have precedent. I began menses at age 9 and had also had other elements of early development throughout life. I never questioned the early onset of peri-menopause or the full stop at 44. To me, it was normal.
Because of a family history of breast cancer, HRT was never a consideration. Maybe that also factored in.
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Post by dotty on Feb 13, 2014 17:07:56 GMT -5
I see, I asked when I was in perimenopause and still having crazy bleeding - I had at least 3 D&Cs done in under 4 years. Perimenopause is often the cause of irregular and extra heavy periods.
Some doctors are willing to listen, and some can learn to listen, but mine wouldn't listen to anything that didn't confirm what he was thinking. I should have fired him long before I did, but the next two were just as bad in different ways. I pretty much decided there aren't any good doctors and started going to a nurse-practitioner, but then she had to close shop. The last doctor I saw at the free clinic seems like the best - most understanding - most willing to listen - of any I've seen in almost two decades.
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Post by owling on Feb 16, 2014 5:40:06 GMT -5
dotty: Thyroid tests are easy and cheap. Your doctor should be doing one for you as well. @faylen: I think depression is both chemical and triggered by events in our lives. I started suffering from depression when I was bullied at school. After the bullying stopped, I was still depressed and had low self-esteem, but it did go away after a couple of years of being in a healthy environments. If the issue would have been a brain disorder, there is no way it would've gone away without medication. Then again, some people suffer from this despite not having any obvious cause. Maybe there is more than one type of depression and more than one cause, but we're just not aware of it yet.
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Post by tigger on Feb 16, 2014 21:59:35 GMT -5
Owling, the self esteem issues are thought to be part and parcel of ADHD. There are qualifiers to depression that are thought to share symptoms but not successful treatment.
In short the question may actually be one of chicken and egg. ADHD is known to be neurobiological but depression of various sorts may not be... but may be related in terms of severity and duration to the known neurobiological difference.
Much to ponder.
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Post by conman on Jun 22, 2014 23:44:56 GMT -5
Depression's been fucking with me since...at least the start of junior high, im accepting the fact it'll be a part of me i just have to deal with and no medicating for that cuz i dont trust antidepressants anymore
Anxiety's become a real problem the past few years and fuels my depressions, gonna seek help and medication to control it cuz it's been messing with me bad as well. was diagnosed with some anxiety disorder (it might have just been 'anxiety disorder' actually) when i was diagnosed with ADHD-C but we never truly noticed anything with it. until like i said a few years ago i became aware and freaking the @@@@ out
Autistic tendencies
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