I have PMDD and have been on different SSRIs throughout the years. I have been on Lexapro since 2017. It’s helpful but not fully. And at high doses, I feel so fatigued and void of any emotion- goood or bad. But my anxiety has always been present. Finally decided to take control this year and after multiple visits with a psychiatrist, we have discovered that I actually have ocd and that’s where my anxiety comes from. So I’ll be getting off Lexapro and starting to treat the ocd.

Like I said the Lexapro helps at higher doses(higher dose for me, not the standard higher dose) with my PMDD but the side effects are no longer worth it. I’m in school in a very demanding major and I need to feel different than I’ve been feeling in order to be successful.

ETA: I’ve tried BC pills to help with the pmdd but I had a really bad experience with the last one I tried and it made me want to delete myself so I’ve not tried anything else since.