ten years of misdiagnosis is brutal and i went through something similar with my hormones 😩 i read Stop Feeding Disease by Mark Keller and it finally connected the dots for me. my cycle is regular now, my mood is stable and i dropped 24lbs, feels like a secret nobody talks about

I’ve had PMDD since I was a teenager, I’m 46 now. Misdiagnosed for 30 years. Every month 10 days were often unbearable. I’m now getting the help Ive been craving through Louise Newsons clinic. Dr Newsons doing so so much for women’s health/mental health. It’ll help so many young people going forward. Thank you. ❤

I was misdiagnosed for years with anxiety and depression 😩 but it was my hormones all along. PMDD controlled my life and no one believed me. Then I found the Hormonal Reset Protocol by (Emma Wells) and it completely balanced my cycle. 26 lbs down, mood stable, and I finally feel sane. More women need to hear this.

Heartbreaking and furious  to hear what Anna has been through.
So glad you made it through Anna ❤️. This talk with Louise is going to help so many of us , thank you ladies xx

Thank you Anna for speaking out. It has been very hard for you.

Thanks for this podcast Dr Louise and Anna. I am surprised that the psychiatric teams did not look at the dates Anna's mental health worsened and they would have seen a monthly pattern.
I am sorry that Anna was not taken seriously when she went outside of the NHS to get more quality care, and Dr Louise, you validated me when you said how frustrating it is that it feels like NHS don't think you are a real Dr. I experienced this, I thought it was me, I kinda felt looked down on.
I saw someone else as NHS only want to prescribe 1/4 of my oestrogen dose. I don't have PMDD, and I am afraid I was one of those ignorants who never believed in it, but it seems obvious now that it's the cause of monthly mental health deterioration in some, like how menopause loss of hormones can cause bad mental health in older women.

Thank you Anna and Dr Louise! You will be helping thousands of women. Thank you so much from Germany 🙏💕♀️

Anna, you are unbelievably strong, my GOD.  You are lucky to be alive!!! I cannot believe all of those health practitioners couldn’t figure it out!!!???? And WHY are psychiatrists and GP’s always just resorting to prescribing these drugs for women??  The whole mess makes me so angry.  And don’t get me started about psychiatrists- is this even a legitimate profession???  I’ve heard too many stories where women are wrongly prescribed these heavy duty medications , having to endure medical harm at the hands of totally ignorant health professionals.  Anna knew what was wrong right from the beginning and not one practitioner listened to her???Unacceptable.  Thank-you for this post, truly eye 👁️ opening.

Such a sad story. All she needed was a clever doctor who thinks outside the box and moves  away from dogmatic thinking.

Thank you so much Anna 🎉

My god, this hits home. Poor poor Anna. Makes me utterly sad and at the same time angry. I just got the diagnosis pms/pmdd a couple of weeks ago. Me and my family have been suffering with this for about 14 years. I had post natal depression after daughter (almost 15) was born, then after son was born (11 years now)  Last pregnancy pre- and postnatal depression (so that's 3 times) and after that went downhill with ups and downs. Major periods of depression, psychotic periods, self harm, major disassociation. Had crisis intervention at home with two nurses coming every week to "talk", was eventually admitted 3 or 4 times and can't even remember half of what happenend there and what I did. My husband told me disturbing things afterwards where it was like: no way, did that happen! And untill now it's all a blur to me. I couldn't put my finger on it but I always felt there was something else going on. My husband too by the way.
Even in my younger years from the age of 17 I was always quite emotional, periods feeling very down, immensely insecure about myself, angry, mood swings, impulsive etc. You could say it was still puberty but it was more than that and never ever thought it was hormones. When you have your period , they just say: oh it's that time again, it's the hormones right 🙄
I'm 44 now and def peri.  So like I wrote after youngest was born (now almost 9 years ago actually) everything seemed to get out of control. Never ever any talk about hormones just GP visit, psychiatrist. On all sorts of different AD's, antipsychotics, benzo's and I still didn't feel better after long use. Well, then I would think a doctor might scratch the back of her head right? I eventually would just ween of them myself being fed up, and obviously that was awful too, and then after a long time feeling quite better. But even in the good periods I always had that off feeling, angry, overthinking, frustrated and really irritated by my kids and husband, especially a week, few days before my period and then immense heavy and long periods with womb cramps, feeling flu'ish, just very unwell. I never ever had this before 8,5 years ago. It's just after listening to a podcast of Davina McCall some months ago w light got switched on. Could this always have been part of the story? So I did my research for a couple of weeks after that, found the Newson Clinic, balance app, bought the books etc went to my GP.  She wasn't really that interested and just suggested the pill and we don't start hrt before 50 and she admitted she didn't really know a lot about it, so I went private. Just started oral P and starting up slow due to my mental health history and because I'm also still on AD and bipolar meds. I'm just going through the motions at the moment. Still not feeling myself but hopefully on the right course. The fact that I got a diagnosis helps but the journey has just started and there's all sorts of stuff going through my head. You want relief and you know it takes time but you just want to feel like yourself again or just feel at ease and content. It's an ongoing rollercoaster but I'm optimistic and I push on, for myself but especially for my husband and kids. We've all been through enough. And I am going through the stage of trying to accept that I was admitted and the awful stuff I did to myself and I went through and all the guilt that came with that and am still kind of feeling on and off. I don't know if I can ever really get to a point where I can leave that behind. It's an immense trauma but I'm taking it one day at a time. Thanks for this podcast. Thanks Dr Newson. Thanks Anna for being so strong and open about it. I wish you so much happiness, you've been through a lot. ❤

I also have had a lifetime of PMDD and been in hospital when I was 29 for two weeks taken there by my mother and  thought I was going to be sectioned .I was also not allowed to go outside.  I have had countless bouts of depression,eventually lost my house in my forties and ended up homeless and on a psychiatric hospital for 5 months.I am 63 now and experiencing PTSD again after the job centre I work in was attacked. This video really resonated with me.Thanks to Anna and Louise for sharing their experiences. I've taken more antidepressants  and benzodixepine than I care to remember.I also experience regular migraines with aura and have been prescribed 50mg of amitriptyline. I feel like I am fighting the biggest battle of my life at the moment.

Thanks, Anna, for sharing your story. I, too, have pmdd and was diagnosed in 2019. I was told to change my diet, lifestyle, and take fluxotine which did help initially. Im under complex menopause unit at Manchester st marys after fighting to keep my ovaries as i do not agree that it will make things better. Im 45 now and still trying to get hrt levels right as i now have perimenopause symptoms too. Im currently on lenzetto 3 sprays, testosran gel and Drospirenone. Still levels are not right yet. Its been a long and lonely journey 😔

I've  always  had pms, now im worried  that my daughter   that she got symptoms  of PMDD
She won't listen to me to go to her dr😮

What I would give for 3 days only of symptoms! What I would give to be able to tolerate progesterone! What I would give for medical professionals that also speak about those that cannot take progesterone, progestins, and what they can do to help their symptoms!

This is why I don't trust the medical field, 99% of them DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING... they are educated by flawed system..

What is the recommended treatment for pmdd?

Medical cannabis and now we are sorted for good.

I'd like to know what happens for women with PMDD when they reach menopause please.

The majority of the medical community are useless. I have no faith in allopathic medicine.