Posted by SLS on June 24, 2020, at 9:59:36
In reply to Re: Off TMS 2 Week Update! » SLS, posted by PCB on June 23, 2020, at 19:59:04
Hi, PCB.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. I never heard of bilateral TMS. Wow.
Quick thought: Many people who took Nardil and responded to it discontinued it prematurely. When they relapsed, the choice was an obvious one - just restart Nardil. The problem is, it didn't work for them ever again.
This seems to happen more often with Nardil than with Parnate.
Good luck to you, too.
:-)
- Scott
> > Would you be able to describe what type of TMS you received (rTMS versus dTMS), how many weeks, how many times a week, and the pulse settings? I am very interested to know if I don't continue responding to my present treatment.
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> > Thanks.
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> > - Scott
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> I did 2 sessions of L unilateral rTMS for 20 minutes initially. As before, I experienced some agitation. I was feeling my girlfriend should have been treating me better and I felt a little more confident (maybe 10% change). I told the pdoc both days and she changed me to bilateral TMS with right sided stimulation for 20 minutes and left theta bursts for 3 minutes. I completed 3 sessions of bilateral. About 20% of my depressive symptoms returned (sleeping all day, cognitive clouding, anhendonia).
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> If I wasn't dating this woman, or if I felt this woman could tolerate me being possibly severely depressed for 6 weeks (my baseline), I would have finished the rTMS. I think maybe 25 percent chance I would have responded and been able to lower my nardil dose.
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> Now I was doing it to get off nardil. I though I would taper off nardil and then start a new med like Trintellix and if that didn't work, start TMS. The TMS pdoc said she wanted me on nardil and start a taper nardil at 2 weeks of TMS therapy. I was surprised to hear that. I have never heard of TMS being use to taper someone off a medication that is working, but patient can't tolerate the side effects. So that could have been a reason to for TMS making me worse. When I go too high on any medication, I feel worse. So maybe the addition TMS was almost "too much" medication.
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> The tech said they have dTMS machine but hardly every use it due to the risk of seizures.
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> Good luck SLS!
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