Posted by Crotale on June 20, 2008, at 18:48:47
In reply to Re: P-doc says only options are rTMS + ECT!! » BGB, posted by Zeba on June 19, 2008, at 21:26:09
I agree that MAOI should come before ECT, but the claim that ECT's success rate is just an artifact of memory loss is just incorrect. I would say this post is biased and that you are better off listening to someone who hasn't had ECT. The poster "Zeba" has admitted that his/her ECT was botched. Obviously you should not have any sort of invasive procedure performed by a doctor for whom you have anything short of 100% respect and trust.
I will freely admit I may be biased as well, as I have had ECT and it has benefited me (for severe treatment-resistant depression, which has an extremely low placebo response rate) and I have not suffered any memory loss (other than the expected inability to remember anything that happened while I was under general anaesthesia). However, I will also point out that I was a staunch defender of ECT before I'd had it, based on its well-documented high success rate.
rTMS is the treatment with a questionable success rate. It is still quite experimental.
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