Posted by pseudoname on July 19, 2006, at 14:21:45
In reply to ECT and Memory Loss, posted by Denise190466 on July 19, 2006, at 13:49:55
> so if you found that your memory was getting progressively worse during the treatments, couldn't you stop them?
That seems reasonable. You could, I suppose, find or devise memory tests to give yourself both now and after you've started ECT for comparison. "What did you have for breakfast yesterday?" that sort of thing.
> I can remember everything right up to lying on the table and waiting for them to anaesthetise me beforehand.
I can remember getting to 97 when counting backwards and the anesthesiologist saying "Goodbye" and the rush of going under, which was pretty cool. The only time I've ever been out.
> 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!
I don't understand this. They put you out with anesthetics for bilateral, too.
> 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??
What a great idea!
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