Posted by baseball55 on May 24, 2014, at 19:42:58
In reply to Re: make me beg for simething that'll harm me, posted by poser938 on May 23, 2014, at 23:14:41
> Oh, man. i hate to hear your bad experience. i know there are many bad experiences. Has the bad effects from ECT improved any over time for you?
> Did you feel you were fully informed about the effects of it before you had it done?
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> And yeah, i basically have no other choice but to do ECT.The bad effects didn't last. I lost much of my memory after bilateral ECT. I never remembered a thing that happened over the 3 weeks of treatment, but I recovered other memories after a couple of months. I was informed and I had done research on my own. You should too. The evidence for ECT's efficacy is pretty weak. Even when it works, the effects don't last long and you will need to find an anti-depressant to take afterwards.
Why do you have no choice? Have you tried all classes of meds - SSRIs, SNRIs, TCAs, MAOIs, APS, AAPs? I would really regard ECT as a treatment of absolute last resort.
But you have your appointment, so give it a try. I warn you, it's unpleasant. Going under anesthesia, waking up with wet pants, not knowing where you are or who the people around you are. Spending hours afterwards with a severe headache. Doing this three times a week for a month. But it's your call.
By the way. You wrote earlier that you can't try an MAOI because of the anesthesia. But that's not true at all. I had surgery twice while on parnate and simply told the anesthesiologist beforehand so s/he could adjust the drugs accordingly. No problem at all.
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