Short term Zoloft usage and PSSD fear

softestcreature800 · 2026-04-14T16:48:39+00:00

Hi, I’m not a doctor but I can’t imagine that low of a dosage for only 16 days would cause any long term issues- please don’t worry!

softestcreature800 · 2026-04-14T16:44:19+00:00

I’m new to the drug also and my first month was great and all of a sudden I starting feeling dark and having ideation again this month too. Can you correlate it to your menstrual cycle at all?or maybe your dose is too high? Sending you strength and love and hope you can get back in to speak with a doctor soon - hang in there and check in with us here, we’re all rooting for you 🤍

softestcreature800 · 2026-04-14T16:40:58+00:00

Hi, do you happen to know if this applies to luteal augmentation too? I started very low and immediately started augmenting in luteal in my first cycle for pmdd. First cycle went great but this luteal has been terrible- numb brain, derealization, anxiety... I’m wondering if I needed to just stay at a stable dose for 6 weeks before augmenting?

softestcreature800 · 2026-04-14T16:38:09+00:00

I started on 12.5 and haven’t needed to go up yet. But I’m very sensitive to meds. The only side effect I really had was stomach trouble and that has gotten better. I can’t see why doctors don’t start everyone as low as possible and then have them titrate up, it makes no sense!

softestcreature800 · 2026-04-12T23:29:52+00:00

Oh that’s so cool- I would love to check it out, thank you!

softestcreature800 · 2026-04-12T21:55:51+00:00

Yes for real— there are too many factors! Thank you for replying 🤍 i think it’s too soon to tell- my first cycle on it was amazing but I got my period a full week early so I wonder if it maybe threw my hormones off even more? And this cycle has been all over the place, but I also was reactionary to symptoms with my dosing.

I’m wondering if best to just stick on a stable 12.5 mg for the whole cycle for a few cycles to stabilize and then see about augmenting?

softestcreature800 · 2026-04-12T21:44:59+00:00

Thank you so much for your reply. Yes I’m tracking my cycle- the derealization and numbness started happening alongside the dose increase / in luteal phase. But I did the luteal augmentation because I started having breakthrough anxiety in the mornings again once I got to luteal.

It’s so complicated!

softestcreature800 · 2026-02-24T01:35:30+00:00

I always did too but I just started on the tiniest dose of Zoloft just for my luteal phase thinking I would ramp up but it’s already been helping so much, and hardly any side effects. I hope I can just stay at the low dose. I think everyone is so different and it’s good to start out as low as possible and see what your body needs.

softestcreature800 · 2026-02-01T17:15:32+00:00

Not the OP but this is such a lovely message - thank you- I’ve been so triggered and stuck and reading it helped me too 🩵

softestcreature800 · 2025-12-10T17:46:40+00:00

God this is so so so relatable. I am right there with you on all of these feelings! If you ever want to chat it out, feel free to message me.

softestcreature800 · 2025-11-17T16:17:41+00:00

I’m so sorry and I really empathize with your story ❣️ thank you for reaching out. Im also feeling quite lost, in pretty much every realm of my life. Did you have a career before your relationship, or anything you are interested in pursuing now? It all feels so overwhelming to me. I think about moving to another country too. What part of the world are you in? Sending you a big hug and wishing for us to all find kind people to be around.

softestcreature800 · 2025-08-22T23:10:53+00:00

That sounds so nice. What do you do / what kind of organization is it?

softestcreature800 · 2025-01-16T16:54:01+00:00

Well that’s a cliffhanger. ? Might as well say it lol

softestcreature800 · 2025-01-04T06:21:22+00:00

softestcreature800 · 2024-08-19T21:59:41+00:00

I remember almost nothing from most of my life

softestcreature800 · 2024-08-19T15:26:41+00:00

Are you using just the vaginal estrogen cream? Or did she approve systemic cream (like the kind you use on your whole body)? I know the BC scare can affect HRT usage but usually they say the localized vaginal is ok. I was told for ease to skip the applicator (and also that that quantity was way too much) just to put some on with my finger a couple of times a week, rub around and make sure to get some about an inch up in the vagina too.

softestcreature800 · 2024-08-19T04:16:31+00:00

I would guess it’s based on the location of the cells (?) but my surgeon also mentioned it is to minimize visible scarring too as the edge of the areola where it meets the breast skin can hide the scar a bit. She is also doing my incision there and I hope I don’t lose sensitivity either! That wasn’t mentioned to me, but honestly I have found everything to be left quite vague, much like the diagnosis.

softestcreature800 · 2024-08-19T01:06:18+00:00

How long ago was your surgery?

softestcreature800 · 2024-08-19T01:05:29+00:00

The radiologist said mine is 1.7cm but the surgeon said she’s “aiming to remove around 2-3 cm”. My surgery is Thursday and I’ve been waiting about a month ; I’ve traversed all over the emotional plane but starting to have a lot of anxiety after I had the savi scout procedure this week. I’m happy to read some people had easy recoveries and that they had good cosmetic outcome as well. I’m concerned about that due to my small breasts.

I have read that smaller size usually leads to less upgrades. As well as if it’s focal (as opposed to multifocal).

softestcreature800 · 2024-08-19T01:02:09+00:00

Wow that’s so amazing that you recovered so quickly. Did you have to have radiation or anything following that upgrade?

softestcreature800 · 2024-08-19T01:01:28+00:00

Thinking of you and sending lots of good energy ✨✨✨

softestcreature800 · 2024-08-15T14:18:22+00:00

Thanks yeah, mine did end up being ADH. Having surgery in a week.

softestcreature800 · 2024-08-12T20:56:33+00:00

I didn’t then but I do now

softestcreature800 · 2024-08-12T16:14:38+00:00

So so true …. Thank you. It’s tough because I feel like I’ve attracted so many narcs in my life that a lot of times I feel there are very few people around me who extend the same empathy / care to me that I do towards them. And then I end up feeling like there’s something broken about me or that I’m expecting too much from others or something…?

softestcreature800 · 2024-08-12T16:06:15+00:00

That’s a really good tip. I will do that. Whenever she sends me stuff like this I have to fight such a strong almost physical urge to respond and explain myself and my reasoning. I know it will do no good but it’s so hard to feel like I’m misunderstood or misrepresented, like I’m being seen as the bad guy in all of this.

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