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Re: atypical

Posted by ceesea on July 4, 2004, at 3:56:26

In reply to Re: atypical, posted by Elle2021 on July 4, 2004, at 2:42:30

hi elle
TMS is a magnetic version of ECT, without the side effects and the anaesthetic. It's still being trialled here in aus so I can only get it if I travel to sydney, but they have approved it and you can get treatment in the few places they do it. It's nothing like ECT in that they don't knock you out, so there are no side effects like dopeyness and stuff. You can have it, and go home straight away or to work or whatever. For ECT here you have to spend the night before in hospital and the whole day they do it there too so you can recover from the general anaesthetic. There is no loss of memory or muscle pain or any of that stuff with TMS either. My psych said some studies show it as being very good and others aren't as good as people initially hoped, but seeing as it doesn't hurt in any way there can't be any harm in trying, i feel.
Having said that i probably will have ECT, with it's confusion and pain and memory loss, because i can't stay in hosp if I go to sydney to have TMS, and I don't want to be there alone in this state of mind. ECT did help me the first time, didn't make me happy but made me able to keep fighting.
I am really comfortable with my psychologist, I have known her for 4 yrs and been seing her for 3, so I don't usually have any probs answering her questions, but I do say stuff to my psychiatrist sometime then think what the hell did i say that for? he's from eastern europe somewhere and it doesn't help that sometimes he misunderstands what i say too. I think part of it is that they ask questions we need to think about, so I start to answer and then as I do my answer changes, like i need to talk my way through it to find the answer. my appts with him are 45mins, so there's never enough time to sort out the past week and my feelings and stuff.
gotta go, stepdad is here to poison our ant infestation I think.
CC
p.s. sorry to hear you have treatment resistant dep too. It's really disheartening to keep trying meds and they do nothing.


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