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Re: ECT - when Nancy?

Posted by LT on December 13, 1998, at 19:53:16

In reply to Re: ECT and Alan's experiences, posted by Nancy on December 6, 1998, at 11:55:07

> > >Your description has helped me. I've decided to let the doc do ECT on me. My doc, Dr. Robert Horne, is a mood disorder specialist, also. So, I'm not afraid of him lacking any ability in performing the procedures.
> > > Dr. Horne said we're going to do two ECT sessions a day a few times a week until we've completed 6-12 treatments. This has to clear up my illness, since nothing else works. I don't know what I'll do if it doesn't happen for me. What did you do, Alan?
> > > Has anything you've tried made you better??? I REALLY HOPE so! It's miserable to be so sick.
> > > Nancy
> > Thank youfor your ressponse. I got my shocks back in 73, and I think they are more reliable today; e.g., I've heard they wire you up to make sure you get a siezure noww. Spme years ago I saw an estimate that 40% of ECT treatments were not properly done. That must be much diferent now.
> **Wow. You may have been cheated at a fair chance for recovery. Dr. Horne said that today's ECT is 95% effective for full recovery!!! He must have access to some REALLY NEW info. What I've read is of effectiveness between 80% and 90%.
> >(Moreover, back then a very large % of patients did not recieve adequate doses of ADs; I know I was one of them from subsequent experience.) Certainly the rate of progress in neuroscience and psychiatry holds much promise for a future I infer you will be able to enjoy. As you know, even if you respond to no treatment--and the probability of that has become small; tho the wait is hell--you will almost certainly spend most of your life in remission. As for me, I got better in 75-76 and had a recurrence in '82 which I just rode out. Then again in '85 when I responded 'in textbook fashion', to a dosage of desipramine that was considered very dangerous in 73. I was fine for 8 years and then switched to Prozac in an effort to become easy going and charming. To some degree, that worked; the Prozac did seem to 'smooth me out' and come me down. But. it pooped out about a year ago, well only partially for I didn't miss any work. Right now, I feel almost certain that I am responding finally to Effexor after the rounds of this and that.
> **Holy Cats! Alan, you are an inspiration. You are one of the few people with this illness who KNOWS what it's like to fight to the bitter end. Unlike those people who SAY they've had depression. Those that insist that if you don't WANT to lose your ability to work you simply CHOOSE not to lose your ability to work. As if CHOICE has anything to do with it. These people probably would have been "cured" by eating ice chips. But, what you've written about yourself shows that you have been terribly ill with a serious chemical imbalance. Alan, I think there are not many out there who understand how bad it can be. I REALLY HOPE that the Effexor is going to do it for you and NEVER "poop out".
> > This is one of those times I would like to say "I'll pray for you." but I don't mess with the occult. My fervant wishes for your earliest recovery.
> > alan
> **I'd mess with anything if it were a proven way to put this illness into remission. I wish you all the best and that all the best that you've missed out on over the years will, finally, be within your grasp.
> Mind Over Madness,
> Nancy

Nancy, I can very well understand your misery, I have been fighting this for YEARS, am sick of fighting this, I don't think I can remember life without this damn depression suffocating me. Anyway, I'm on 40mg Celexa and pushing it up to 60mg this coming week. If I fail this test to respond, my Dr. thinks ECT is next also. I'm apprehensive about it, but then I figure what have I got to loose. I'm working every day, but it seems to be getting more and more uphill! Enough about me, how soon are you going to start your ECT treatments? I hope it's successful for you!!!! I'm anxious to hear about your results!! Good Luck!!


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