Posted by pseudoname on October 31, 2006, at 11:13:56
In reply to Re: To Blueberry, posted by deniseuk190466 on October 30, 2006, at 13:52:55
Hi, Denise. I'm obviously not blueberry, but I've been following her threads and I'm not sure how often she's on Babble now, so I thought I'd try to answer.
She's having *bilateral* ECT. The clinic said they used to do unilateral, but it didn't get good results, so now they only do bilateral, I guess.
She reported mild, dubious improvement after 1 treatment, but zero benefit after 6 treatments, when she considered quitting because of the memory problems & feeling generally worse. They talked her into trying at least 8, after which she posted back here about the marked improvement in mood.
It's an encouraging report and I really appreciate her posting here about it. (If I got anything wrong, somebody correct me, please; but I'm pretty sure this is correct.)
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