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After ECT #16, feel *qualitatively* different

Posted by uncouth on April 18, 2009, at 21:04:37

Ok folks, there is no way I can accurately put into words how i'm feeling, but let me just say that after 15 ECTs, on Friday I was feeling some form of a positive response on my mood, and definitely feeling the negative side effects on the memory. But on Friday's ECT, I woke up after it feeling *very* different, and I still feel differently a day later. It's hard to put into words, but after the 16th ECT (all of mine are bilateral), I felt different than how I felt after every previous ECT. I almost feel a little like i'm "on drugs"....let me try and describe how i'm feeling: a bit disconnected, weak in the knees, a little confused, tired, feeling like my field of vision is a movie screen that someone is projecting what i'm seeing onto. I don't feel real depressed, though, but I don't feel real good, either. I just feel "blah", confused, very spacey, physically a bit weak. It's almost like, and I know this isn't possible, but it's almost like they didn't wake up all of my brain after the ECT, and there is a part that is still offline. That's what it feels like.

Has anyone felt anything like this before? Can I expect it to change? Or am I permanently brain damaged now? Am what I'm feeling right now what the people who say ECT causes brain damage are talking about? Or is the solution to just get more shocks? If I do the 17th shock, will that shock me back to normal????

Please help me!

 

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