Posted by Racer on November 1, 2005, at 11:00:23
In reply to Re: I really need some help. I'm tired of all of the, posted by ktaylor on October 31, 2005, at 21:43:26
This just burns my butt -- if you just had a hysterectomy, of course your hormones are likely to be out of whack! That should have been the first thing to be checked, rather than just telling you that 'it's just age.'
With veterinarinary care, a good vet will *always* check an animal top to tail before saying that something is behavioral or age. Everything will be checked out. (Heck, when one of my male cats started spraying after we moved in with my husband, we had all sorts of kidney function tests done before saying it was behavioral.)
With people, though -- and especially women -- it's more often the other way around: it's got to be psychiatric, until proven otherwise. And sometimes not even then.
Can you change gynecologists? The first thing to check out are all your female hormones -- estrogen, progesterone, etc. Of course your FSH should have been checked -- that should always be checked in depression, before going for the handy dandy SSRIs. If all those come back clean, then an endocrinologist is a good next step.
I'm very sorry you're going through all this. It shouldn't happen. Good luck.
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