Posted by Crotale on June 17, 2008, at 20:11:54
In reply to To Crotale, posted by deniseuk190466 on June 15, 2008, at 7:35:51
Hi Denise. Sorry it took me a while to get back to you. I haven't been online much in the last couple weeks.
> Everytime I ask my Psychiatrists about ECT they just sort of shake their heads and say that it's not indicated for my depression. This is because I'm not bedridden, am still able to work etc and I also have a lot of anxiety, tension and agitation.
Well, I'm not bedridden. Do you perhaps have what's sometimes called "atypical" depression? (symptoms include eating and sleeping a lot, anxiety, and hypersensitivity) ECT isn't supposed to work very well for that. I also gather it's not really indicated for bipolar disorder.
> Were you completely cotomose before having ECT, I mean were you unable to eat or sleep?
No, although I've certainly been eating and sleeping better lately. From what I gather, outpatient ECT is done pretty commonly here. It's going quite well for me, BTW; it seems to be helping, and I haven't had any problems with memory (well, except obviously that I can't remember any of the times when I was under general anaesthesia!). I've just gotten to the point where we're starting to spread the treatments out a bit further (I was having 2 a week, now I'm going down to 1 a week -- I had, I believe, my 12th treatment on Monday).
> Also how did you react to Nardil and to Cymbalta?
Nardil seemed to work at first but then it pooped out and I got a lot more depressed. It was pretty bad. I had some kind of bad reaction to Cymbalta, I don't know exactly what caused it, but I had a high fever and my blood pressure was all over the place and stuff like that, and I was kind of delirious. We all respond to these treatments differently...each of our brains is unique. I know people who had great results with one of these two medications. Anyway, so I don't tell people those are bad medications just because I had bad experiences. You know?
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