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Re: ECT sounding pretty good » Pfinstegg

Posted by blueberry on May 19, 2006, at 18:35:28

In reply to Re: ECT sounding pretty good » bassman, posted by Pfinstegg on May 19, 2006, at 17:26:27

I had not thought of the bipolar thing. I mean, I've always had depression but never mania. My doctor thought I was bipolar when she first met me, but after observing me for months she said it didn't seem like I was. She said with all the meds and supplements she had tried me on that if I was bipolar I would have had a spark of hypomania somewhere along the way. But I wonder.

I have only sampled low dose lithium in the past for a couple days. All I really remember is that it made me feel wired, restless, and I had to go pee 4 times an hour. I liked depakote, though its goodness was short lived. Not sure where to go from here. You were nice to respond. I'll put lithium and bipolar on the radar screen. You weren't the only one that touched on the bipolar aspect, so maybe there is something there.

> They way you have responded to SSRI's makes me think of bipolar, too. What about a trial of low-dose lithium (you may have done that already). TMS will be out in about six months: Mark George, who's been working with it for many years, has gotten 8 bipolar patients into complete remission by giving one TMS per week for a year.


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