Dealing with PMDD Symptoms: Seeking Advice

@Katharina is that the girl with the flow vitamins that I see on Amazon? I noticed those, but I thought they sounded awfully expensive so I wasn't sure if I wanted to try them given the price.

@Alistrange I've never heard of primrose oil pills, but I'll look into them. Thanks.

@Alistrange I'll have to look into primrose. I've done a lot of research in the past, but that's not one I've come across before. And I have noticed that my ADHD NPMDD do seem to feed off of each other. And boy, don't I get the fear of rejection. I just spent most of the morning sitting at my table and trying to psych myself up to contact my OBGYN. I am mostly blind, and usually I have a friend to take me to these appointments to help me fill out paperwork, but in order to get a more recent appointment, I had to schedule it for a time when none of my friends were available, so I had to call them and ask them if somebody would be willing to help me fill out my paperwork once I arrived. It's a normal, routine matter, but I was still anxious that they were going to yell at me and tell me to stop being lazy or something, or cancel my appointment or you know something else ridiculous. I did finally get that sorted out, but I felt emotionally drained afterward.

@KaramelCorn I am not currently on the pill. My previous OBGYN kept making comments that it would help me with this issue or that, but then when I would ask her if she would subscribe it to me, all she would tell me was I "wasn't a good candidate", and she would never give me any more information than that. I'm in the process of trying to get in to see a new OBGYN, but her schedule and mine have yet to sync up where I could actually schedule an appointment. My prescribing psychologist is the one who diagnosed me with PMDD, and she told me to start taking hydroxyzine as a maintenance anxiety medication, and she added escitalopram daily for me to help manage the depression symptoms. She's got me taking both all month, and in addition, she put me on a dissolvable Xanax as needed. But even with that and my other medications that feel like they are too numerous to name, I just kind of feel like I'm barely holding on with managing the symptoms. I legitimately spent about 4 hours crying my eyes out at my best friend on Sunday because I felt overwhelmed with everything that needed doing, and with certain situations at home, and all of that. I occasionally have small meltdowns, but that was by far the biggest and ugliest I've had that I can remember. And it's right about the time of the month that I start experiencing the PMDD symptoms. Basically, I'm willing to try just about anything and everything in order to feel like I can manage with what's going on. The majority of each month is me dealing with these symptoms, but it's not like my life can just stop during that time. And sorry, that's probably a bit of a tangent from answering the original question.