Posted by Bob on December 14, 2011, at 21:57:27
In reply to Re: Effexor 450 mg? » Bob, posted by SLS on December 14, 2011, at 17:43:43
> Hi Bob.
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> > I currently have the DBS implant.
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> Does it help?
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> Thanks.
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> I'm not in a very good place.
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> - Scott
It's a loooong story. I got implanted in '09 at the Columbia University site in NY. Just like some of the many meds I've taken the device produced myriad effects, some good and most bad... some real bad. I had many little glimpses of hope, especially when the stimulation level was adjusted, but they would always fade away. This is all I would get from any meds in recent years and now I don't even get that.The device was activated for almost exactly one year (I know I was being stimulated during the placebo phase). I don't know what the staff at CU would classify me as but if I had to sum it up in a word it would have to be unsuccessful. Of course the real world requires much more than a single world. I respond much differently to meds and other treatments than it seems many do, and they claim from data and what I've read that at least 50% of people are considered responders to the DBS implant. One thing it did without question was add drive and motivation into the mix, albeit without happiness or joy most of the time for me. I was at the point before the implant however where I didn't have enough energy to do much else except lay on the couch and watch tv all day whilst enduring my mental suffering. So at least on the stimulation I was getting out of the house.
At this point I would recommend it for you as you have now unquestionably tried almost everything you can think of - that is exactly what something like this is intended for as far as I can see. You may be a better candidate than me since you seem to be very tolerant to meds with respect to side effects. I get bountiful and showstopping side effects from just about everything I've ever tried and DBS was no exception.
Anyway, like I said, the story is quite long in full so I'll stop here.
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