Posted by lcat10 on April 13, 2007, at 20:33:16
In reply to Re: re ECT, posted by lcat10 on March 30, 2007, at 17:22:10
This is a follow-up. I can say I am about at 90% in terms of not feeling depressed. Yes it would have been nice to be at 100%. My ECT doc agrees with me, though, that it was time to stop as I was beginning to develop some significant cognitive deficits. The disorientation has almost entirely resolved. The anterograde amnesia is improving. The retrograde amnesia is more extensive than I would have thought would happen. It includes not only much of what occured around the time of the ECT, but for whatever reason I seem to have no memory of 1998-2003, And yet, I can remember being in the recovery room and talking to the ECT doc and the anesthesiology people and nurses, etc. Very strange. I met with my ECT doc yesterday to talk about things, and he was interested in what has happened. I have also deveoloped a noxious olfactory hallucination. He had not heard of this and was surprised when I told him I knew of around 4 or 5 people who also had this happen to them after ECT. We are going to meet again in a month to see where things are.
My only concern is that there are some people on the ECT board who want me to believe my ECT doc lies to me, and want me to think I have been duped into thinking I am doing better with depression. They are giving me a worse headache than I ever got from the ECT.
lcat10
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