Posted by snapper on July 1, 2004, at 16:01:44
In reply to Re: To: Shadows, posted by shadows721 on July 1, 2004, at 15:32:45
> Your symptoms sound just overwhelming to me. Can't that doc give you some Klonopin and Seroquel? Klonopin is a anticonvulsant too. You could take 25 mg Seroquel for the sleep. I find it really works great. Even just 0.5mg of klonopin would help calm down some of these symptoms in between therapies.
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> Are you feeling any relief (for depression) from any of these ECT treatment? Snapper, you didn't bring on these symptoms. You aren't a loser either. You are very brave to under go this long tx process. I am not going through it and it seems like eternity. Does this doc realize how much you are suffering?
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> If I weren't medicated properly, I just can't imagine the state I would be in. Pardon my ignorance on ECT. Is it that the doc really wants to see your true symptomsm, so that he can see improvement? But, my goodness, this duration of time without medication of symptoms seems almost unbearable to me.
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> Before each tx, do they go over a review of how you feel now? I mean with the symptoms you listed. I think a doc would have to medicate you a bit more.
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> Hey Shadows,You are correct in your assertation(sp) of my symptomologies and what the doc. can and can not give me , med wise, while I am going through the ECT tx process. No I really do not think he even has a clue as to how much misery I am in, but then again he may. But I doubt it! I can't have anything that would interfere with the 'seizure process'ie: klonopin or otherwise. Yes they ask me how I am doing ...before each tx. and after ea. tx. it gets written down in my chart and I am sure he reads it but I just don't think a lot of Pdocs take the gravity of severe anxiety too seriously. I don't know why I feel that way...maybe they do take it seriously and it is just that they can't throw a bunch of pharmacology at me while they are trying to get a 'good therapuetic response' from the ECT. It is soooooo frustrating and is the intensity of my symptoms that make me feel suicidal. It is a 'catch 22'.He says if I am feeling suicidal that I need to be in the hospital.... but what the hell are they gonna do for me in the hospital? Treat the anxiety? Screw up the process of ECT and drive me totally nuts. I do not do well in the hospital!! I feel like I am stuck
I could say more but I don't want to keep rambling!
snapper
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