Posted by Mr.Scott on May 20, 2005, at 17:14:58
In reply to Re: ECT failure? » Bob, posted by jerrympls on May 18, 2005, at 20:27:35
Has anyone considered the timeline of their depresion and where their benzodiazepine usage was at that time?
I have certainly heard (and may be experiencing some of this) that benzos, particularly clonazepam may induce depression.
However...I have to concur with whoever said benzo+Stim+SSRI is the best combo I've had to date.
For me ECT worked great. I had 6-8 treatments, (right unilateral) and was doing very well. After 5 months the effect dissipated. I am now considering maintenance ECT. My doc suggests starting once a week for 3 weeks and then continuing to spread it out until once every 2 months for maintenace. The only impairment I had was from the anesthesia. No memory problems at all. Some day's I even went to work after a treatment (which was highly ill advised by my doc). I guess everyone is different in how they respond to all this stuff.
I'm interested in the opiate thing. After all morphine was the treatment of choice for depression at one time.
Scott
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