I want to write this to help people diagnosed with PMDD that can't or don't want to get on birth control and don't want to get on antidepressants. I am not doing this as a doctor but someone that has experienced it and found a solution that works for me. It may not work for everyone else. That being said I'll keep it short as possible. I had severe postpartum depression after I quit breastfeeding my daughter. Very severe. I let it go too long because I didn't know what was going on. The doctor prescribed me lexapro and it worked a little at first but it took it a full 8 weeks to work better and even then it didn't get rid of all of the symptoms. It was a low dose but I didn't want a big dose because I knew I would be getting off of it soon and just wanted the help for a little while. I wish I would have started my supplements then instead of the lexapro because I now know hormone imbalance was my problem. My prescription ended at 5 months after starting it and that put my daughter at 1 year. I weaned off of it and it wasn't too bad but I started getting really weird symptoms. After I would ovulate I would go into a rage for 2 weeks with severe mood swings. I told my doctor about it and they wanted to put me on birth control which I can't take due to the type of migraines I get. So they wanted to put me on Prozac. I took one dose of Prozac and it made me feel super weird so I was determined to find out what the root of my problem was instead of taking Prozac. I also was having pain on the right side under my ribs and my throat kept having a swollen feeling. After tons of research I found it is very common to be hypo/hyper thyroid after a baby and that estrogen dominance is very common. The pain in my side was due to excess estrogen messing up my gall bladder function and the swollen feeling in my throats was due to the hypothyroid. I also had the other symptoms that goes along with these two issues i.e. Mood swings, anxiety attacks, hot and cold flashes, sleepiness, irritability and so on. I did research and started taking these two supplements.
https://www.amazon.com/Thyroid-Support-Supplement-Vegetarian-Ashwagandha/dp/B00M13NHFY/ref=sr_1_2?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1495635876&sr=1-2-spons&keywords=thyroid+support&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/DIM-BioPerine-Metabolism-Menopause-Aromatase/dp/B006KL4TYG/ref=sr_1_4_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1495635915&sr=1-4&keywords=Dim
Thyroid support and DIM. I also took some other additional supplements to help with the estrogen metabolizing because I was miserable and desperate.
https://www.amazon.com/Thorne-Research-Picolinate-Absorbable-Supplement/dp/B002TPK1F8/ref=sr_1_4_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1495636038&sr=1-4&keywords=zinc+picolinate
https://www.amazon.com/Thorne-Research-D-Glucarate-Detoxification-Capsules/dp/B0012MZZLE/ref=sr_1_sc_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1495637884&sr=8-3-spell&keywords=calcium+d+glucarte
I can go into detail on what these do but I'm trying to keep this brief. Anyway they started working within a week. I started feeling better. I took 2 DIM a day for 2 months in addition to the normal doses of the other supplements. I gradually kept feeling better but I'm an impatient person and I had been feeling bad for so long I wanted it to feel totally normal again as soon as possible. After more research I found that Curcumin helps you feel better while the DIM and Thyroid support does it's job. It took me a long time to get to feeling this way so it would take a while for me to get out of it. I ordered one brand of curcumin that's no longer available but I've replaced it with this one
https://www.amazon.com/Turmeric-Bioperine-Available-Standardized-Curcuminoids/dp/B01DBTFO98/ref=sr_1_4_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1495636427&sr=1-4&keywords=curcumin
I started feeling like myself at Day 5 of taking this. It's amazing. I sometimes take up to 9 a day but it's on days I feel particularly terrible which always coincides with my hormone cycle (or slight hangover) but I always take at least 3 a day. No side effects or any issues with this. It's amazing. It keeps me sane while the dim and the thyroid support correct the issues I've had. I just wanted to write this to give people an option to try before antidepressants. You should know within a week of these supplements will help you or not. I'm not doctor. I'm not trying to get anyone to stop taking their meds. I am simply putting out there an option that worked for me and took a lot of trial and error to figure out.
So my daily supplement regimen that initially worked for me. I have since lowered my doses after 2 months of this.
2 DIM by smokey mountain naturals one morning one night. I would recommend only taking 2 if your estrogen dominance is severe and only for 1 month. After that lower to 1 a day.
Thyroid Support by 1 body 2 in morning
1 Calcium D Glucarate by Thorne research
3 turmeric curcumin with bioperine by Schwartz bioresearch sometimes more
1 double strength zinc picolinate by Thorne research in morning
Fish oil in morning
Relaxed mood gummies by vitafusion
Neuromag magnesium l-threonate by life extension at night. 1 scoop.
I now only take
1 DIM
2 Thyroid Support
2 Relaxed mood gummies
3 Curcumin and occasionally more throughout the day.
Magnesium at night.
It's a lot of supplements and some are a little expensive but I prefer this to Prozac. Please PM me if you have any questions. I've tried a lot of things in addition to these that I didn't list because I wanted to keep this as short as possible. Again this is just what worked for me and I am not a doctor. I was just desperate for anything to help me that wasn't an antidepressant.
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Hormone & Ovarian Support
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4 Month Update: Just added current pictures of my chin and jawline. Last month, I increased my DIM from the 200mg capsule once a day to the 250mg capsule once a day. I also started taking the SM Progesterone Cream about 2 months ago. Only other thing I take now is a daily multivitamin. Threw out all my acne creams. I'm a very happy woman.My hormones have been insane ever since my last baby, and I've had horrible, painful, hormonal cystic acne all along my jaw line for months. I tried every topical treatment known to man, but obviously it's not very helpful, since the root of the problem is internal not external. So, I was feeling pretty desperate and decided to search for some kind of natural supplement, which is definitely not my usual course of action. I'm generally pretty suspicious about any supplement based solutions. However, after hours and hours of research, I decided to try DIM. I was highly highly skeptical, but figured that an extra dose of broccoli probably couldn't hurt anything lol.Y'all. My mind is blown. I've only been taking it for a few weeks, and all my cysts have cleared up. All of them. All I have left are the scars now and they're starting to fade. I wasn't actually expecting this stuff to work, so (unfortunately) I didn't take any before pictures. But believe me when I say that if you had seen my chin and jawline three weeks ago, then you would realize how incredible these pictures are now. The quantity of deep, horrific, painful cysts all over my chin and jawline was absolutely insane. My skin didn't even look like skin anymore. It was just a solid painful mass of deep red bumps everywhere. There's nothing quite as humiliating as being a 34 year old mother who looks like she's going through puberty all over again. I recognize that these pictures probably don't look amazing, but believe me...they are.But it's not just the acne that's drastically improved. My wacky monthly cycle is regulating, my chronic bloating has disappeared, and I *feel* a million times better. I've been so physically exhausted for months and for some reason it just never even occurred to me that it might be linked to my hormones. It clearly was though. I've gotten more stuff done in the last couple of weeks than I probably have in the last year, and my crazy mood swings have completely stopped. I'm just back to being my normal self again. Even my husband and kids have noticed, and they're not the most observant people lol.Now, to be fair, I have no clue if this stuff works for everyone or if the results are sustainable long term. I also have no clue if certain brands work better than others or something. I just went on Amazon and picked this one because it had the most reviews. And it did give me a pretty fantastic headache the first two days I used it, which appears to be a common side effect when you first start taking it. But at this point, I have basically nothing bad to say about this stuff. I wish someone had told me to try a DIM supplement years ago. I'd never even heard of it before.Anyway, just thought I'd share this review in case anyone else seems to be experiencing cystic acne or out of whack hormones. You've got to try this stuff! Honestly, I'm feeling slightly sheepish, because I always say stuff like, "There's no such thing as a magical pill that will fix your problems." But apparently, if your problem is hormonal and the pill is full of ground up cauliflower or something, then it just might fix it after all 🤷🏼♀️🤣
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