Electro Convulsive Therapy
- Thread starter Shock
- Start date
- Status
I just got my psychiatry book, let me write what I found out:
Side Effects:
Effects on the nervous system - loss of memory (75% patients say it's the worst side effect associated with the ECT) After 6 months of threatment, it usually gets better.
Fractures because of the induced seizures during the ECT - they usually use muscle relaxant for that.
Muscle pain, headaches.
That's what I could find in the book
hope it helps...
Side Effects:
Effects on the nervous system - loss of memory (75% patients say it's the worst side effect associated with the ECT) After 6 months of threatment, it usually gets better.
Fractures because of the induced seizures during the ECT - they usually use muscle relaxant for that.
Muscle pain, headaches.
That's what I could find in the book
hope it helps...My grandmother had it.
It really is the last last resort and you'd have a lot of options before trying that.
you'd have to be clinically depressed to the worse degree for a long time - for the docs to consider it.
There is actually a trial in the UK and other nations with a pacemaker which is connected to a region of the brain - numbered whatever - and small electrodes are surgically implanted (you are awake when its done) and you wear the pacemaker.
This sounds like a modern version of the very crude process of ECT which just blasts the entire body and brain with a massive jolt of electricity.
Even MDMA i(E)s being used to treat depression - plus Ketamine (trials are ongoing) - I'd take that and the new technique WAY before ECT
If I was hospitalised and could barely speak my own name - sure ECT is worth a bash - and modern techniques with muscle relaxant - you should be OK.
Hope this helps.
It really is the last last resort and you'd have a lot of options before trying that.
you'd have to be clinically depressed to the worse degree for a long time - for the docs to consider it.
There is actually a trial in the UK and other nations with a pacemaker which is connected to a region of the brain - numbered whatever - and small electrodes are surgically implanted (you are awake when its done) and you wear the pacemaker.
This sounds like a modern version of the very crude process of ECT which just blasts the entire body and brain with a massive jolt of electricity.
Even MDMA i(E)s being used to treat depression - plus Ketamine (trials are ongoing) - I'd take that and the new technique WAY before ECT
If I was hospitalised and could barely speak my own name - sure ECT is worth a bash - and modern techniques with muscle relaxant - you should be OK.
Hope this helps.
Before you let your doctor conduct the ECT on you, why don't you try getting out from your house and do a long run; run until you feel very exhausted and go home and sleep, then tomorrow,do the same thing.. Try running long distance for a week and tell me if it works or not.. If it works slightly, then drop the topic on ECT. ECT got side effects and doctors will not tell you what it is because they don't want to scare you.
I have failed medical therapy because i am allergic to everything and CBT also failed numerous times.. almost on ECT but i refused.. (I was an ex-medical student and i know what an ECT really does).. tried pulling myself out from bed and making myself run until very exhausted, go home and sleep, then try again tomorrow and within a week, i am slightly better.. Try my method first, ok..? and report back.. thank you.. :hugtackles:
I have failed medical therapy because i am allergic to everything and CBT also failed numerous times.. almost on ECT but i refused.. (I was an ex-medical student and i know what an ECT really does).. tried pulling myself out from bed and making myself run until very exhausted, go home and sleep, then try again tomorrow and within a week, i am slightly better.. Try my method first, ok..? and report back.. thank you.. :hugtackles:
I am currently having weekly maintenance ECT. I believe I have had about 10 treatments so far this time. Yes I have some memory loss but if I am reminded and then I can usually recall it. However when I am depressed I have a hard time making memories. I read my old journals and everything is new. I will continue having ECT as long as my pdoc agrees because it does relieve the depression.
I have minor memory loss and since they increased a pain killer I don't have any more headaches afterwards. I don't have sore muscles and with modern procedures people don't break bones or get physical injuries.
I have minor memory loss and since they increased a pain killer I don't have any more headaches afterwards. I don't have sore muscles and with modern procedures people don't break bones or get physical injuries.
- Status