Much help needed

[aimeeghodbane]

Hello

I'll try and keep it sweet
So I had my baby 22nd September this year
He's perfect and healthy
We were in hospital for just over a week
I had post natal pre eclampsia and off my blood pressure meds
Whilst in hospital I was taken to high depdancy unit twice where the doctors kept saying
We have to sort this as you cloud have a stroke blah blah blah
I started to have terrible panic
Since
I have been told i have post natal depression/anxiety
I took my self hospital three or four times one week
I'm not convinced and I'm scared something is seriously wrong
I am on 10mg of citalopram
I get terrible pains in my head
I feel unbalanced
I get the shakes
Lights flashing in my eyes when i blink
My legs hurt i was convinced I had dvt had blood test negative but still worry
My tummy sometimes hurts
I go tingly
It isn't all the time but it's scary
Just wondering if anyone else has allllll of these
Sound like a lot I know

Thanks in advance

Aimee

[aimeeghodbane]

I also forgot to add
I have a boy of 5 too
Both boys r healthy

My labour wasn't traumatic

It's literally just the worry that I am
Having a stroke
Or heart attack
Got this got that
It worries me all the time til I cry x

[quantumrose]

Hello and welcome :-)
I have worried about everything you mention and more! I'm lucky(unlucky?!) that I have the benefit of hindsight- this is my second time with PND and last time I was utterly convinced that I was dying. All the time. Everyday. And that was 4 years ago, it turned out that apart from PNI I was completely healthy. Thus illness has many physical symptoms and you've had them checked out and you're not physically unwell. I know this is hard but have faith and trust the docs. Be so kind to yourself, you are deserving of so much care and love mumma. You can do this. Keep talking about your worries, it really helps and a huge well done for all the hard work you've done getting yourself help. We're here for you xxx

[monica]

Welcome to our site

It sounds like that the health worries you had could well have triggered PNI, which is understandable and common too. PNI also triggered my health anxiety and I used to worry about it 24/7. I'm sorry you're going through this as its just awful. But please remember you will recover.

It's really positive you're under the care of your dr. I too took citalopram 10mg which helped initially then stopped so my dose was doubled to 20mg which worked for me. I found out after from a friend who also took citalopram and whose dr informed her that the 10mg dose is very low and usually needs to be upped. It might be worth talking to the dr about this.

PNI for me also commenced with odd physical symptoms like you've described - this seemed to trigger the anxiety. All tests proved negative but for me these inexplicable symptoms seemed to point to some horrendous illness and Boone could allay my fears.

Anxiety can bring on horrible symptoms - panic attacks, tingling, visual symptoms, feeling spaced out, to name a few. It's good practice for the dr to check these out.

Once you fall into this pattern of worrying it's hard to break these thought processes. Counselling especially cognitive behavioural therapy can be good for this. It's worth talking to dr about this.

As hard as life is you will recover do pls don't lose heart and keep talking X