Posted by Steve on August 26, 2000, at 0:46:04
In reply to Re: Shock treatment - anyone with experience?, posted by Debby on August 25, 2000, at 22:30:52
Never had ect, but I would strongly urge you to first find a competent psychopharmacologyist ie not just anyone with an MD, and have them try some meds like Lamictal and Zyprexa which usually help when the normal ones don't before you do ECT. From what I have seen on the boards and read elsewhere ECT treatments do work for a while, but then wear off, do cause memory loss, and sometimes, horror of horrors, or so I was told by my doc who has done ect, patients no longer respond to meds that the way they had responded to them before, but get no benefit from them..
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