Posted by bleauberry on February 18, 2012, at 15:19:37
In reply to done with 2 1/2 weeks of rTMS (24 treatments), posted by poser938 on February 16, 2012, at 15:12:15
I think maybe it is time to go back and rethink the meds....there has to be a few "unique" blends you haven't tried or haven't thought of.
Someone is so desperate that ECt is needed, well, I see anecdotal evidence all around that for them simply medical marijuana does what the last 20 years of their treatment couldn't. Happens a lot.
And I think at this point other stones have to be unturned. Have to look places that previously were never suspect. Stuff like inflammation, occult infection, fat soluble toxins. Pretty straight forward to diagnose these things clinically or to test them by challenge. All of them have one thing in common....depression that won't respond to anything. When the inflammation is dealt with, or the immune system modulated, or a mystery infection lessened, or chelation....depression cannot help but either improve or completely go away.
I think for the most part we as humans downplay the importance of food choices as well. Blood type diets, gluten free diets, high protein diets, high carb diets...these all have significant places in medical treatment and symptom reduction. And in some cases our food choices themselves were the enemy all along.
I guess what I am saying is if you are going to stick within the limited circle of things that are used to treat primarily depression, the prognosis doesn't look very good to me based on your history so why would anyone purposely stay within that confined circle of thought? Face it there are lots of gray areas in medicine and if someone really wants to get better at some point I think they have to accept the idea of thinking outside the box and trying stuff....definitely justified when conventional optioins are running out (and proved they were the wrong mechanisms for whatever the actual problem is).
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