Posted by bigcat on November 3, 2005, at 23:34:59
In reply to Re: Should I give Nardil more time?? UPDATE... » bigcat, posted by ed_uk on November 3, 2005, at 17:06:39
> Hi Matt
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> How did you respond to ECT?
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> Kind regards
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> EdEd My Dear,
Fifteen bilateral ECT treatments four years ago, and absolutely no effect. My current (new as of this year) pdoc is kinda' lobbying for the ECT thing again, but if I gave it a full trial once and it was unsucessful, I *think* a second trial would be futile. This is the opinion of my former pdoc (whom I respect and continue to consult). Closing out that avenue is tough to swallow, as my new doc was adamantly praising this brilliant psysician in her psych group who is "regarded as a renowned, leading expert in ECT, and has figured out all these new, more effective, and benign methods". I wish I could cling to this hope, but I've never heard of a full 15-treatment trial failing initially and working wonders the second time around. She's also talking up the new "electro magnetic" therapy, but I'm skeptical of that too.
God Ed, this is impossible. I've been posting quite a bit lately (often redundantly I regret to admit, but this board gives me SOME kind of outlet for an otherwise comprehensive isolation). The terrifying reality of my hopeless predicament makes every moment catclysmically torturous. I'll read about sexual side effects or weight gain causing a patient to discontinue an otherwise effective therapy, and it hits me how bad I truly have it. I don't mean to belittle the suffering of others, but my depression is simply on a different level entirely. To be frightfully honest, I wouldn't hesitate to accept a lifetime of solitary confinement with regular abuse and starvation if it came with a true and lasting remission.
Sorry to vent, but you've been so consistently kind and helpful, casually and humbly displaying a bottomless genius for psychopharmacology that inspires hope and makes all other pdocs seem like dabbling amatuers; are you a liscensed pshychopharmacologist? (Either way, I'm coming to the UK so you can be my official or unoffical doctor. I'll consult you for med advice and hire use a dopey pdoc as my pawn for writing scripts). Does your bottomless med knowledge come from incessant research, longtime experience, or a creatieve and inexplicable inuition...? I'd be very interested to hear the ups and downs of your treatment: your liberating breakthroughs, strange or unanticipated responses, creative cocktailing adventures, and the myths and fallacies you've encountered that restrain psychopharmacological progress and block potentially sucessful treatment options.
With Respect and Admiration,
-matt-
(mlieb@wesleyan.edu)with countless others who express honest selflessnessexpressing my honest
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