Posted by emmanuel98 on September 3, 2012, at 19:03:34
In reply to Re: Monocycline, ECT and cycling SLS » Slabicki, posted by SLS on September 3, 2012, at 14:35:34
I also had 9 bilateral ECT sessions and for about a month afterwards, I could not remember neighbor's names, names of people I had been acquainted with for a long time, how to get from point A to point B. Names of major roads, locations of stores. Somehow I drove myself places but I could not have explained how I got there, since I didn't know the names of the roads. I just seemed to go on auto-pilot. This would all have been worth it had the ECT helped at all (I was suicidal and severely depressed), but it didn't. Also, the experience of ECT is horrible. YOu wake up disoriented and sick and with a severe headache. It takes hours to recover. Bilateral ECT is the worst and almost has to be done inpatient because the disorientation is so bad and lasts so long. When I had bilateral ECT, people came to visit me in the hospital and I have no memory of it whatsoever.
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