Worried my depression is coming back
I’m 6 weeks 4 days and very anxious about everything. I’m in the UK and when I contacted my doctor to let him know I was pregnant, he basically said congratulations and then left me to self-refer to a hospital. I had expected to have blood tests to check hcg and progesterone levels but nothing so far. Prior to getting pregnant I was on high dose venlafaxine (Effexor to you Yanks) and an additional anti-psychotic medicine following a break down in 2016 in which I was hospitalised for two months. (I came off the medication, with my psychiatrist’s help, in order to start trying to get pregnant at the end of May). Now, I have sporadic breast pain and mild nausea which comes and goes. Each time it goes, I feel sure I’m losing the baby. I’m finding it hard to get motivated to do anything. This is not helped by knowing so many people who have had miscarriages and chemical pregnancies as I feel it’s inevitable that this will happen to me too. I just want some medical reassurance that everything is healthy.
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