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| Hi, I'm new to this forum, Thanks for any help you can give me!! I feel like I found a new Family!!
A week ago Saturday my perimenopause symptoms came crashing in, I would have never thought they would come on so suddenly. To top it off my whole family DH 2 kids (9 & 3) and I had some kind of stomach virus!!
I"M SO TIRED!! PLEASE HELP ME SLEEP!!
So what I'm hoping is for some advice on natural things I can do for sleep, I just can't get my mind to go to that sleepy place~~I really can handle everything else now that I know what it is, It was the not knowing that was scary,
Is there any side effects with the cream??
Thanks ladies for your help!
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| Whooo boy! :o) What fun! There are side affects... if you use too much, you turn into an eating machine. BUT with the cream, the amount you use is adjustable...but you have to use it for a week before it's effective. Until then, I recommend lemon balm, made into a tea. Knocks me out. Also I recommend reading SusUN Weed... you can google SusAN Weed, but it's spelled Susun.... anyway, she writes a lot about living with menopause if you like her sort of way of thinking. There are other herbs and soy to think of too... not everything works for everyone, experimenting is a good thing. The problem is, nothing herbal seems to work overnight, unfortunately, so you have to give it time. |
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- Posted by mtnwomanbc (My Page) on Sat, Jul 22, 06 at 3:12
| Please listen to your doctor or at least look into the medication a bit further. Some antidepressants are used at different dosages to treat other symptoms--they are only truly antidepressants at the higher dosages. They get a bad rap because most people only learn about the side effects that mostly occur at the higher dosages. Here's info about Zoloft from PDRHealth.net (patient/consumer wing of the Physician's Desk Reference online): Recommended dosage for Zoloft ADULTS Depression or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder The usual starting dose is 50 milligrams once a day, taken either in the morning or in the evening. The doctor may increase your dose depending upon your response. The maximum dose is 200 milligrams in a day. Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Doses may be prescribed throughout the menstrual cycle or limited to the 2 weeks preceding menstruation. The starting dose is 50 milligrams a day. If this proves insufficient, the doctor will increase the dose in 50-milligram steps at the start of each new menstrual cycle up to a maximum of 100 milligrams per day in the 2-week regimen or 150 milligrams per day in the full-cycle regimen. (During the first 3 days of the 2-week regimen, doses are always limited to 50 milligrams.) Panic Disorder, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, and Social Anxiety Disorder During the first week, the usual dose is 25 milligrams once a day. After that, the dose increases to 50 milligrams once a day. Depending on your response, you're the doctor may continue to increase your dose up to a maximum of 200 milligrams a day. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Zoloft information
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