Ad and hormone therapy

My pdoc has decided to try adding estrogen to my drug list, for good reasons, but he said if it didn't aleviate the depression and other symptoms i was supposed to add prozac. i don't want to.

i can't stand the thought of another pill. And the SSRI's have side effects i am not fond of.

he said hormones in conjunction with AD's used to be common until all the stuff regarding postmenopausal women's health concerns came out. Then docs stopped researching it. But he said it could very well help me a lot.

i have done a lot better than i had been doing, for a couple of weeks any way, and now i am back into deep, deep depression again. It's so unfair. Unlike the bipolar depression this is predictable, but just as bad.

i hate being this depressed. i feel really awful... but i don't know if i can deal with yet another pill, another try, another failure, another 6 weeks to find out if it helped.

i am so very sad.

anyone with experience with Hormones as add-on's?

I have heard of estrogen for depression, but don't know of anyone taking it. I hope you get some relief; sorry you are feeling so low now.

thanx. i just picked up the prozac and took one right away... i'm supposed to take them in the morning but screw it.. i just can't deal with it anymore