Posted by ShelliR on February 26, 2003, at 13:44:49
In reply to Re: ECT, pain and advice » ShelliR, posted by Greg A. on February 25, 2003, at 14:27:35
Hi Greg,
I'm amazed that your doctor had you try ECT, without trying either nardil or parnate or both.
I don't know how to describe the pain. It involves tightness, but asked to describe it, I would call it pain (as opposed to discomfort, etc.)
I just had a couple of good weeks, then bam--the pain is there again. I'm having some conflict with my sister and brother, and my dad had a horrible reaction to chemotherapy. He has lung cancer and now he doesn't have the option of chem, so besides radiation, there's no good treatment now (he was supposed to do them together for the best possible results).
Anyway, I very sure that the condition of my father is greatly increasing my depression. He's still not completely breathing on his own. We're very close.
Because I went so high on oxycontin, vicodin is just too weak to have any effect now. That's why I'm so sorry that I agreed to change meds with a doctor who turned out to be both ignorant *and* a
bastard.Re nardil: I had very few bad effects, but I could only go up to 30mg or I couldn't sleep at night--no matter what time I went to bed I'd sleep just three hours and then was wide awake. Thirty mgs was fine, just didn't work anymore.
Shelli
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