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shutterbug · 10-26-2007, 02:24 AM

thanks Peda....side affects with ECT? you mean the memory loss?

I keep hearing from different places and people of how it's actually the most beneficial thing for depression and the safest. It doesn't put any unnatural chemicals in your body (only the meds they use during treatments to put you under and such), doesn't cause things like deadly rashes, weight gain, no potential for potential lethal build up of salts or anything similar to lithium or depakote, doesn't cause diabetis like Serouel can, doesn't push bipolars into possible manias, doesn't cause low libido, or knock a person out for 15 hours or more at a time.....

....and really all ECT is....is a stimulated seizer (however u spell that) accomplished by very low level shocks to specific points. right?

i don't understand why it's the last thing we should turn to instead of the first or second? I know it personally frightens me a bit just because of having to go under and having never been under before or anything similar, but wouldn't a little short-term memory loss worth the benefits (as typical loss of memories is usually only the few days prior to treatment and tend to return later)? I mean, my short-term memory is shyte anyway because of this depression....sometimes can't even remember what i did just 5 hours prior unless seriously thinking really hard on it for a while. So either way i've got memory loss issues.

Anyway, thanks for responding Peda and i can't wait to read your thoughts an opinions on this stuff!!!

hugs,
jenna

p.s. my personal view on why ECT isn't more main stream? Besides the obvious fear factor of how it got it's start, there's the money issue, plain and simple. It's a lot more profitable to hand out a pill then for insurance companies to be paying for and docs to start prescribing expensive ECT. And if it really works as well as i keep hearing from docs and professors....then that would sure cut WAY into the Rx biz with all of us who depend on anti-ds and anxiety meds! Can u fathum the financial losses many Rx companies would get hit with if ECT became more mainstream than pills!!! I can't even imagine.

p.s.s What have you heard about that new stimulas device that is now being surgically inplanted into depressed patients? Any good reviews?

10-26-2007, 02:24 AM	#3 (permalink)
shutterbug A picture's worth a 1000 words Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: With any luck, I'm lost in a view finder Posts: 2,947 Blog Entries: 5	thanks Peda....side affects with ECT? you mean the memory loss? I keep hearing from different places and people of how it's actually the most beneficial thing for depression and the safest. It doesn't put any unnatural chemicals in your body (only the meds they use during treatments to put you under and such), doesn't cause things like deadly rashes, weight gain, no potential for potential lethal build up of salts or anything similar to lithium or depakote, doesn't cause diabetis like Serouel can, doesn't push bipolars into possible manias, doesn't cause low libido, or knock a person out for 15 hours or more at a time..... ....and really all ECT is....is a stimulated seizer (however u spell that) accomplished by very low level shocks to specific points. right? i don't understand why it's the last thing we should turn to instead of the first or second? I know it personally frightens me a bit just because of having to go under and having never been under before or anything similar, but wouldn't a little short-term memory loss worth the benefits (as typical loss of memories is usually only the few days prior to treatment and tend to return later)? I mean, my short-term memory is shyte anyway because of this depression....sometimes can't even remember what i did just 5 hours prior unless seriously thinking really hard on it for a while. So either way i've got memory loss issues. Anyway, thanks for responding Peda and i can't wait to read your thoughts an opinions on this stuff!!! hugs, jenna p.s. my personal view on why ECT isn't more main stream? Besides the obvious fear factor of how it got it's start, there's the money issue, plain and simple. It's a lot more profitable to hand out a pill then for insurance companies to be paying for and docs to start prescribing expensive ECT. And if it really works as well as i keep hearing from docs and professors....then that would sure cut WAY into the Rx biz with all of us who depend on anti-ds and anxiety meds! Can u fathum the financial losses many Rx companies would get hit with if ECT became more mainstream than pills!!! I can't even imagine. p.s.s What have you heard about that new stimulas device that is now being surgically inplanted into depressed patients? Any good reviews? __________________ I'M FINE!! Fanatically Insecure Neuratic & Emotional Bipolar/Depression support: 1-800-950-NAMI(6264).