Posted by Denise190466 on July 19, 2006, at 13:49:55
In reply to Thanks UGottaHaveHope » Crazy Horse, posted by gardenergirl on July 19, 2006, at 12:35:04
Hi,
I'm thinking of pushing to have ECT again (this time the whole course and not just two treatments). I was thinking though, surely you would be aware of the memory loss and how bad you were being affected during the course of the treatments and the intervals inbetween.
so if you found that your memory was getting progressively worse during the treatments, couldn't you stop them?
The two treatments I had didn't seem to affect my memory at all, I know only two not enough to really know. But I can remember everything right up to lying on the table and waiting for them to anaesthetise me beforehand.
I remember the conversation I had with the ECT Nurse, the people who were with me in the waiting room and everything I said to them.
Neither do I have any other memory loss as far as I am aware. But then like I said two treatments is probably not enough to know. Maybe you get to the fifh and then whoosh it's all gone.
The only thing I would complain about is the horrible grey pokey waiting roomm, the big burley ECT nurse who didn't exactly have good interpersonal skills and kept telling me, when I told her I only wanted Unilateral and would accept nothing else, that I should have bilateral because otherwise I would end upstairs like this other guy on a drip because of all the anaesthetics he'd had beforehand! That made me feel really good before going in. Hardly reassuring!
I was having my legs waxed today lying in this lovely beauty clinic room, lovely smells pervading the air, listening to lovely relaxing music and I was thinking why couldn't the atmosphere be a bit more like this in the ECT Clinic?? You'd think they'd do all they could to put the patient at their ease.
Denise
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