Posted by PhoenixGirl on July 14, 2011, at 20:21:02
In reply to Re: Update- My experience with ECT » PhoenixGirl, posted by alchemy on July 5, 2011, at 21:19:35
Alchemy, did you start ECT? How is it going?
> > I did it for about 6 months, I believe. My doctor stopped it because I became suicidal, and he thought the ECT might have activated an underlying bipolar tendency (or something like that....I can't recall clearly). The maintenance ECT didn't help me all that much. It was the intial round that helped, but the help only lasted about 2 weeks.
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> Interesting. When I first had ECT I felt really good for about 2 weeks too. I permanantly got out of a very black hole, but I went back to my "normal depression".
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> This dr suggests not spacing out the ECT so much as I move to maintenace. I had a few about 2 weeks later. After one of them I felt really agitated. I have never heard of it possibly trigering bipolar. Agitation is on the bipolar side.
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> A lot of information says that ECT is more suited for a major depression episode than chronic. I really hope that's not the case with me. Haven't started it yet, but I will probably within the next 2 weeks.
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