Changing meds is always hard and you feel like you're swimming with no land in sight for a while. I've had rotten PMS and depression all my life (with meds and without). What took me, personally, so long to really believe was that I'd feel better by and by. While I was in the pit, so to speak, I had to learn to put off decisions, hold my breath and wait. It was like what we do when we're encouraging ourselves to keep riding with a chant or motto. Like running through Shelob's cave as fast as you can - there's an opening on the other side of the tunnel. Of course, this is just my cognitive approach to it. Many of us have been there and are still there. Riding really seems to help level things out (of course we can't ride 24 hrs a day!).

Right now, I'm getting very perimenopausal and, besides the usual symptoms of heavy flow, crazy emotions, flip-flopping heart, etc., I'm getting really extreme changes in my energy levels on the bike. One day normal, the next, under the same conditions on the trainer inside, my heartrate will be through the roof and I can barely make my legs peddle. It's very irritating!

Hang in there, kid and know that a whole lot of us are right there with you!!