Posted by bleauberry on January 23, 2008, at 17:16:06
In reply to Not surprised..., posted by stargazer2 on January 22, 2008, at 22:44:08
> Once again, the doctors who are supposed to "Inflict no Harm" have done it again in the name of big money. and ECT is really BIG money especially for the ECT doc.Yeah, no kidding. I had good insurance at the time and they covered most of it. I did get a detailed bill for all the itemized charges and how much the insurance company paid. The bottom line for 12 treatments...$22,000.
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> I have always said to my pdoc, "no matter how depressed I get I will never have ECT" and that was because I did not trust what I had heard about memory and results.
>I'e already commented on my nightmares of vanished memory. Just wanted to emphasize ECT has zero effectiveness after the treatments are over. According to my diary I was improving during treatments. An author wants to quote me saying how ECT made prozac work better. At the end I had 2 days of a new born life free of depression. I remember one of those days. The other is just in my diary. Two days later I was carried off to the emergency room in an ambulance for talking about suicide. My depression was worse than before ECT.
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