Posted by Karen44 on December 9, 2006, at 21:00:30
In reply to Re: ECT experience » Amadeus, posted by blueberry on December 8, 2006, at 12:21:39
It is your experience, blueberry, that scares the hell out of me with a recommendation for ECT. My pdoc thinks it would help me a lot as none of the antidepressants I have tried have worked for a variety of reasons. Some due to allergic reactions and some due to severe side-effects.
I am depressed but I continue to go to work everyday. I am a professional and need my memory to do my job. I do not want to lose verbal or nonverbal memory. I depend on both being intact. My pdoc says he has had other professionals who have been okay with ECT and even went to work after the treatments. He said I could even drive, though the hospital would not want me to due to liability issues. He said he has had around 70 patients that have gotten ECT, and he said only one had problems, that this was someone who had dementia to begin with. He said she ended up somewhat worse. I just don't know what to think.
In the past Parnate worked very well for me, and then I was off all antidepressnat medication for around 11 or 12 years and was fine until I developed all at once lots of physical problems such as COPD, sleep apnear, GERD, had to have cervical spine surgery, and surgery for a deviated septum--all this in 2005. This year, less, but I am going in for surgery on my hand/thumb on Tuesday. I have way thought why not just stay at U of chicago and let them zap my brain too. But then I decided that I will get a second opinion before I do anything of the sort.
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