Posted by alchemy on August 6, 2012, at 21:03:23
In reply to Re: To all treatment-resistant people!, posted by slabicki on August 5, 2012, at 21:00:06
> I'm just so scared that if I don't do something, I will stay like that and I will be disabled.
> I was on planning returning to work before that happened. I know that my symptoms will stay without medical intervention.
> I was going to ask the treatment-resistant people how do they handle day to day life.
> I'm past of trying different medication combinations.I'm so sorry for your situation. It is bringing tears to my eyes to know there is someone treatment resistant like me. I don't know if there has actually been any med that has really helped me, but there has been plenty that have made me worse. I am currently on medication. I guess I would say that the xanax xr actually helps me for some symptoms.
I have also had ECT rounds a few times. Two rounds were to help me from medication trials gone wrong & ECT was a miracle. After 6 treatments I had never felt so good in my life. Unfortunately it didn't last more than a couple weeks, but I was much better than before I had the treatments.
One time I was hit with anxiety from hell. It must have been because I went off meds for an Emsam trial and then went off Emsam. I went to the hospital, and the thought of ECT made my anxiety 10x worse. I only did a couple. Xanax was a better choice for me than ECT at that time.
My advice would be that you definitely need to do something medically. It's good to know that ECT has helped in the past, so that can help you decide. Can you hang in there for a while with some more drug trials or do you think the possible rapid effects of ECT are needed first? And then possibly maintenance ECT. Maintenance treatments works for a lot of people. As scary as it is, if it worked for me I would do it. But our situations, background, and reactions to drugs all differ.
I will be checking in to see how things are. Hang in there (and me too :))
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