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Re: To Enigma

Posted by Enigma on March 21, 2006, at 8:27:50

In reply to Re: To Enigma, posted by deniseuk on March 21, 2006, at 6:16:33

Hiya. Good luck with your doctor. Personally, I've had horrible luck with doctors, almost all of them (even non-psych docs). The p-doc's I've seen really confuse me - same exact field, yet they seem to have such differing opinions on mental health treaments. You gotta wonder what they teach in med schools these days. Hell, most I've seen don't have a clue, and I WISH I was exaggerating. I usually know more about depression treatments than they do, which still shocks and really angers me.

I did find a GREAT PCP doc, then he retired early! Just my luck.

Unfortunately, I'm not depression free. :( ECT did help me overall, since I was much worse before, but it was no cure for me, but wasn't really supposed to be. Maybe it is for some people, but this hospital's attitude towards ECT was that it *may* help you/improve your situation, but most patients will still need to stay on their AD's.

One thing that still gets me is how "they" don't even know how/why ECT helps some people.

While I am off meds now, I'm still on disability, and still unable to work. I can't even get the motivation to do things around the house, which is killing my wife, cause she's got a nice to-do list for me :).

I'm going to the doc next week (the one I think is useless), to hopefully get a prescription to the new MAOI patch. MAOI's caused me a lot of grief side-effect-wise, but were the only AD's I've tried (out of about 15+ others) that helped me at all.

I'm praying the patch works (which I'm not confident about), and allows me to stabilize enough so that I can work again and get my life back.

Post your results with ECT when you're done with your treatments, assuming you are able to get them.

I'm wondering if I'll have to go back to get maintenance treatments at some point.

Take care and good luck.


> Hi Enigma,
>
> I think I'm going to push my psychiatrist into letting me try ECT again but I'll keep to Unilateral. Like you say though I'm not convinced he'll go for it, this psychiatrist is quite cautious and timid and I sometimes get the feeling he's just trying to cover his back most of the time.
>
> The Zyprexa does really help me I have to say but I don't want to spend the rest of my life like this and really want ECT to get me back up to where I was over five years ago and on a permanent basis.
>
> Thanks anyway for responding and I hope you continue to feel depression free.
>
>
>
> Denise
>


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