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Re: ECT

Posted by Enigma on August 22, 2007, at 12:38:58

In reply to Re: ECT, posted by chiron on August 22, 2007, at 0:00:11

> ECT is where they intentially create a seizure. I've heard it described as a recharge, I believe it increases multiple chemicals in your brain. It is the most effective treatment there is (80%), but of course it is scary, expensive, and there is the memory loss side effect.

I don't know where you got the 80% number, but the highest possible number my doctor gave me was %30. BUT, that was for ME, *I THINK*, given what I had going in, etc. He thinks I have PTSD, which no doctor out of 10 others (not including many therapists) have ever concluded I suffered from.

> My initial experience with it was amazing. I was pretty bad, and with only 5 treatments I felt better than I had EVER felt (I actually felt like doing things for the first time life). Unfortunately the great feeling didn't last, but it did pull me out of the deep.
>

Looks like you got much better results than I did, especially after just 5 treatments.

> I only had slight headaches that were just that day, only needed to pop some ibuprofen. I have done it occassionally since then, sometimes going in to work after (it is actually a pretty short procedure).
>

You're treatment center let you drive in to get the procedure on your own? or did someone take you.

Neither hospital I had the procedure at would let me drive that day, at all, and wouldn't even give me the procedure without physically seeing my driver. I'm sure I would have been fine, but seeing the lawsuit situation in this country (USA), and, the "just in case" factor, I agree with their rules on this.

Also, both hospitals I went to only offered the procedure very early in the morning, only on certain days. Amazing you were able to just head in after work and get it done!

> If it weren't for the memory loss and because my new anxiety has made me freak out about going under anesthesia, I would probably still be doing it. I don't care that they are shocking my brain, it feels like it needs it- I just fear the anesthesia right now, but of course I wouldn't want to be awake for it either.
>

I don't really have anxiety, but I definitely do NOT like the feeling of "going under". Actually, each time they did it, I grew to hate it more and more, and became more anxious about it each time. It's just such a disturbing feeling. The burn you feel in your vein from the anesthesia, then within seconds your entire face starts tingling, then you go out, like a light, and never remember exactly at what point you go out... I think that bothered me the most.. you just have no "control"... hated that. Then, when you wake up, you have no idea if 100 years have passed, or 100 seconds. In my last hospital, they wheel you into the room, put you under, do the procedure, and then wheel you out while you are still under... so, you wake up somewhere "else", which is a feel I'll never, ever get used to.


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