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Re: Effexor: The agony and the ecstacy » bigcat

Posted by Bob on December 5, 2005, at 21:12:53

In reply to Re: Effexor: The agony and the ecstacy » Bob, posted by bigcat on December 5, 2005, at 20:48:38

> When you say that the 16 ECT treatments failed, does that mean they did nothing at all, it was a mixed bag, or they did bad things instead of good?
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> They did nothing. It screwed my memory some, but it wasn't a huge deal for me (the potential to get better far outweighed any memory issues). I was off meds before the treatments and back on soon after. That's about it.
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Wow. It's amazing how different we all are, and what a difficult problem this is for humanity. I had 21 or 22 treatments, and mine was the "mixed bag" scenario, only the bag was mostly full of bad things. It ended up, in the long run, being a seriously bad experience, and anything but benign. And of course, I had plenty of memory loss. I too got off all meds before starting, but needed emergency intervention with benzos and Li during the treatments. That's one thing I hate about these treatments is the unpredictability of it all, and the complete lack of repeatable results from one patient to the next.

 

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