Posted by Bipolarsux on January 29, 2003, at 3:39:21
In reply to Re: Bipolar, PD and ECT » Bipolarsux, posted by Jumpy on January 28, 2003, at 22:15:56
Hi Jumpy.
Thanks for sharing your experience with me.
I am a little confused - are you saying that you were free of both depression and anxiety/panic or only depression, with the panic remaining after ECT?
I'm sorry that you have relapsed. Guarranteed I will as well if I don't receive maintenance ECT: my condition is severe and has not remitted in more than a decade. Both my pdoc and I are well aware of this.
There is not much use in counting pills but I am taking well over 10X your daily Klonopin dose. This is on top of Lamictal and some other medications so maybe you can see why I am drugged into a zombie? But the alternative is unbearable pain. We have tried literally scores of medications in the past decade, including the ones you suggested. For better or worse I am destined to undergo ECT.
If you don't mind me asking, did you receive bilateral or unilateral ECT? The literature seems to agree that memory problems are more prominent with bilateral. I hope that unilateral will work for me but I suspect I will need the higher efficacy of bilateral. I don't really care much about the memory loss anyway - I already have to carry a notepad around and write important things down because the Klonopin blows my memory away.
Plus I am sick of popping handfulls of pills and still feeling like crap. ECT can take my past memories so long as I feel good in the present.Thanks again Jumpy and best of luck to you.
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