Pain and panic free this luteal, possibly famotidine to thank

*Pepcid DOES lower your stomach acid, you have to counter this or you will be in a BAD WAY when you need to throw up.

I’ve been taking famotidine for two months. Last month, my cycle brought all the same problems it normally does. This time though, I noticed that my breasts don’t ache and all the other extreme inflammation in my body that causes nerve pain, fatigue, and fight or flight/anxiety/depression has been kept at bay.

I’m usually inflamed for most of the month and then my nervous system can’t handle the change of hormones. But my inflammation over the course of this whole month has been pretty low, maybe less than half the time. I have been taking both h1 and h2 blockers together because I have MCAS and am trying to stay on them consistently for at least 6 months until new, stable mast cells turn over.

So I think consistency is extremely important, I’m not sure that I could just take famotidine during my luteal- it might still help in a pinch- I think I need to work on getting my systemic inflammation in check, and then what follows on my luteal is a nervous system that is not already overloaded and can handle the change (also not sure I’m using the perfect terminology but I hope it paints the picture).