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I want to write this to help people diagnosed with PMDD that can't or don't want to get on birth control and don't want to get on antidepressants. I am not doing this as a doctor but someone that has experienced it and found a solution that works for me. It may not work for everyone else. That being said I'll keep it short as possible. I had severe postpartum depression after I quit breastfeeding my daughter. Very severe. I let it go too long because I didn't know what was going on. The doctor prescribed me lexapro and it worked a little at first but it took it a full 8 weeks to work better and even then it didn't get rid of all of the symptoms. It was a low dose but I didn't want a big dose because I knew I would be getting off of it soon and just wanted the help for a little while. I wish I would have started my supplements then instead of the lexapro because I now know hormone imbalance was my problem. My prescription ended at 5 months after starting it and that put my daughter at 1 year. I weaned off of it and it wasn't too bad but I started getting really weird symptoms. After I would ovulate I would go into a rage for 2 weeks with severe mood swings. I told my doctor about it and they wanted to put me on birth control which I can't take due to the type of migraines I get. So they wanted to put me on Prozac. I took one dose of Prozac and it made me feel super weird so I was determined to find out what the root of my problem was instead of taking Prozac. I also was having pain on the right side under my ribs and my throat kept having a swollen feeling. After tons of research I found it is very common to be hypo/hyper thyroid after a baby and that estrogen dominance is very common. The pain in my side was due to excess estrogen messing up my gall bladder function and the swollen feeling in my throats was due to the hypothyroid. I also had the other symptoms that goes along with these two issues i.e. Mood swings, anxiety attacks, hot and cold flashes, sleepiness, irritability and so on. I did research and started taking these two supplements.https://www.amazon.com/Thyroid-Support-Supplement-Vegetarian-Ashwagandha/dp/B00M13NHFY/ref=sr_1_2?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1495635876&sr=1-2-spons&keywords=thyroid+support&psc=1https://www.amazon.com/DIM-BioPerine-Metabolism-Menopause-Aromatase/dp/B006KL4TYG/ref=sr_1_4_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1495635915&sr=1-4&keywords=DimThyroid support and DIM. I also took some other additional supplements to help with the estrogen metabolizing because I was miserable and desperate.https://www.amazon.com/Thorne-Research-Picolinate-Absorbable-Supplement/dp/B002TPK1F8/ref=sr_1_4_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1495636038&sr=1-4&keywords=zinc+picolinatehttps://www.amazon.com/Thorne-Research-D-Glucarate-Detoxification-Capsules/dp/B0012MZZLE/ref=sr_1_sc_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1495637884&sr=8-3-spell&keywords=calcium+d+glucarteI can go into detail on what these do but I'm trying to keep this brief. Anyway they started working within a week. I started feeling better. I took 2 DIM a day for 2 months in addition to the normal doses of the other supplements. I gradually kept feeling better but I'm an impatient person and I had been feeling bad for so long I wanted it to feel totally normal again as soon as possible. After more research I found that Curcumin helps you feel better while the DIM and Thyroid support does it's job. It took me a long time to get to feeling this way so it would take a while for me to get out of it. I ordered one brand of curcumin that's no longer available but I've replaced it with this onehttps://www.amazon.com/Turmeric-Bioperine-Available-Standardized-Curcuminoids/dp/B01DBTFO98/ref=sr_1_4_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1495636427&sr=1-4&keywords=curcuminI started feeling like myself at Day 5 of taking this. It's amazing. I sometimes take up to 9 a day but it's on days I feel particularly terrible which always coincides with my hormone cycle (or slight hangover) but I always take at least 3 a day. No side effects or any issues with this. It's amazing. It keeps me sane while the dim and the thyroid support correct the issues I've had. I just wanted to write this to give people an option to try before antidepressants. You should know within a week of these supplements will help you or not. I'm not doctor. I'm not trying to get anyone to stop taking their meds. I am simply putting out there an option that worked for me and took a lot of trial and error to figure out.So my daily supplement regimen that initially worked for me. I have since lowered my doses after 2 months of this.2 DIM by smokey mountain naturals one morning one night. I would recommend only taking 2 if your estrogen dominance is severe and only for 1 month. After that lower to 1 a day.Thyroid Support by 1 body 2 in morning1 Calcium D Glucarate by Thorne research3 turmeric curcumin with bioperine by Schwartz bioresearch sometimes more1 double strength zinc picolinate by Thorne research in morningFish oil in morningRelaxed mood gummies by vitafusionNeuromag magnesium l-threonate by life extension at night. 1 scoop.I now only take1 DIM2 Thyroid Support2 Relaxed mood gummies3 Curcumin and occasionally more throughout the day.Magnesium at night.It's a lot of supplements and some are a little expensive but I prefer this to Prozac. Please PM me if you have any questions. I've tried a lot of things in addition to these that I didn't list because I wanted to keep this as short as possible. Again this is just what worked for me and I am not a doctor. I was just desperate for anything to help me that wasn't an antidepressant.

So glad I gave this a chance. It's been YEARS to try and find a diagnosis. A doctor recently suggested I might have PCOS. Going in for final tests in a couple weeks. I have all the symptoms and then some... (Hair loss, hair on my chin, weight issues, rosacea/cystic acne, bone and joint pain, sleep issues, IBS with putrid gas...) I googled "natural remedies for pcos" and voila! This stuff came up on Amazon. I read the reviews and ordered it. I DID HAVE A HEADACHE FOR TWO WEEKS... even WITH eating enough and drinking more water than I normally do, but wanted so desperately for it to work. Let me just say, I have been able to control some of my symptoms with diet. I was vegan and followed a JERF diet for a long time, and I'm still really careful (limited dairy, no meat except occasional fish, no trash foods like white bread/sugar/processed junk), but I feel like I have my life back with this pill!!!😍 Here's what it's doing for me :First, I can eat SOME dairy without my face looking like raw ground beef the next morning. I still try to avoid it because consuming those extra hormones when you have a hormone disorder =no Bueno. BUT, I can eat a small ice cream cone when I go on "special times" with my kids. Really helped with my complexion.Second, the putrid gas is gone! I'm telling you, it was enough to make my husband hate me. It smelled like DEATH. If I ate ANY sugar...watch out, cause a bomb was coming. NO MORE! 😇 This benefit alone is worth the headache for two weeks. It was so embarrassing and I didn't feel like I could go anywhere!Third, I have my tiny waist back. I would not say that I lost weight. The scale stayed the same until recently when I started intermittent Fasting. But a couple weeks into taking this pill I noticed the swelling in my face was gone, and my waist looked like it used to! My husband noticed, as well! It MAY have assisted with losing weight, as well. I am a fitness freak already, but I had a very stubborn 6 pounds to lose and they were driving me crazy. I've done intermittent fasting before and all it did was help me maintain my weight, which was better than gaining weight (even on my strict Vegan/JERF diet). I saw that initial difference in my waist and face, and it gave me hope. I started intermittent Fasting again continuing with my strict diet and this time the weight is coming off! I was initially a little disappointed that I couldn't eat what I want to and still lose the weight, because after reading some of these reviews I kind of hoped for a magic pill... It isn't a magic pill, but like I said, it gave me hope and I DID see a difference in my face and waist. Undeniably so...Fourth, the hair on my face is less. I still have some, but there IS a recognizable difference. My skin on/under my chin and jaw line is smoother and the hair isn't so thick and embarrassing. Still plucking, to be fair. The hair on my head may be growing in thicker as well. Verdict still out on that one, but it has felt like it's growing back in. Really hope that's not wishful thinking as I lost a lot of hair and it was heartbreaking to me. I have taken Diatomaceous earth (food grade) and biotin, as well, in the past with good results. Just FYI.Fifth, I FEEL better. Almost normal, which is HUGE for me. I'm telling you, I thought I had cancer or MS or something! This pill is saving me, and I'm so beyond grateful! It won't fix all your problems, and it's not a magic pill, but combined with really healthy habits IT IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN MY HEALTH, which is more than what most doctors have done for me ❤️THANK YOU!