I posted a few days ago about Remeron, but I didn't have the response to it my doctor wanted, so he's already taken me off. This has left us back on square one. I've had an underwhelming response to probably 8-10 antidepressants in my life, and the only one that worked really well (Trintellix) seems to have quit. I would really like to try ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) at this point, but the psychiatrist says I can't because I don't have enough clean time. My drug of choice is alcohol and I've been sober about 2.5 months. I tried looking up why people with recent substance abuse histories can't get ECT, but there doesn't seem to be anything on the internet. I found a few pages about how nobody has studied ECT and substance abuse, as well as one study that said people with comorbid alcohol abuse did better than a control group when given ECT, one that said people who abused alcohol did about the same, and one that said alcohol abusers did less well than a control group, but still improved overall.
Sooooo yeah. No idea why I'm barred from this potentially life-saving treatment. (And before you ask: yes, I know about Post Acute Withdrawal. It does not do to people what my major depressive disorder is doing to me.)
Sooooo yeah. No idea why I'm barred from this potentially life-saving treatment. (And before you ask: yes, I know about Post Acute Withdrawal. It does not do to people what my major depressive disorder is doing to me.)
