Posted by SLS on December 29, 2011, at 5:29:24
In reply to Re: DBS - Any comments? » Bob, posted by alchemy on December 28, 2011, at 21:47:47
> > > > > Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
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> > > How well does DBS work? I know you received only a partial improvement. Has this improvement remained stable over time?
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> > As with any other treatment, I can't say how well it might work for another individual. It wasn't so great for me but it did effect change that meds were not doing any longer. The one thing it did was give more energy and I found myself doing things I never would have done before. Problem was, I rarely felt any better... I was just doing things.
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> Dang, I thought it had a great record for helping depression. I have held on to it as a last resort option as well, but how do you pay for it?
I am suspicious that some treatment failures are the result of misplacement of the wires. I would want to have the procedure for which you remain awake to tell the doctors when they hit the right spot. With the brain, there are great interindividual differences in many areas of morphology and function.Just thinking out loud...
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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