Posted by SadDoggie on February 6, 2005, at 4:26:23
In reply to Re: Are there good and bad places to have ECT? » denise1904, posted by CareBear04 on February 5, 2005, at 18:53:14
Cmon Carebear you don't want to scare her. It's hard enough deciding whether you're going to do it or not as it is. How is your friend doing now Carebear? Surely the zombie effect went away didn't it?
I was in the hospital and some people were getting it and they were all ok. Just some slight memory problems right afterwards.
Maybe some people may seem like zombies for a short time but I took an antipsychotic once which made me like a zombie too and the side effects went right away after awhile.
ECT takes some sessions to work so when I asked one of them they said they were just OK. Like I said in my other post one of them had complaints about the procedure and didn't want it anymore. That's one of the reasons I chickened out. But I think that person was just a complainer, judging by ongoing complaints about other things. They do say it helps 90% of people. By the way they didn't give me a physical when I was about to get it. They say ECT can be given to people who are too sick to take antidepressants.
SadDoggie> i was considering ECT in the fall, too, but it's not something you can just request and get. it's important to have a thorough workup and physical, to know what you're getting into, and to have good doctors.
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> i would recommend a university-affiliated hospital where there are faculty who are involved in ECT-related research. i don't know, but i personally would be wary of county hospitals and state institutions and places of that sort.
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> on a personal note, seeing my roommate in the hospital after her ECT sessions was enough to knock the idea right out of my head. she was a complete zombie, not just right after but throughout the time we roomed together. her gait was disturbed, she was conked out more often than not, and she had trouble socializing. i don't know how much of this is due to her original problems, but i knew that i didn't want that for myself.
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> research and talk to potential pdocs who specialize in this.
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