Posted by Deniseuk190466 on April 20, 2007, at 10:35:48
In reply to Re: I want to try ECT - This time the full course » deniseuk190466, posted by slinky on April 18, 2007, at 11:14:30
Hi Slinky,
Are you seeing a Doctor or a Psychiatrist? I can't believe they won't try anything else.
At least when I was seeing psychiatrists privately they were willing to keep trying and trying and not give up.
I have to say the psychiatrist I'm seeing now is very sympathetic and understanding and I guess they are only as good as the drugs/treatments they have available to them. She sort of chastises me for being after a quick fix and expecting things to work straight away, I see her point but like I said to her, if you had a really bad migraine you'd want to take something to work pretty quickly, not take something, have the migraine become more severe and then wait it out for weeks on end to see if the migraines will go away.
Mindyou any psychiatrist I had would seem nice and understanding after my horrible dealings with this professor who told me that I wasn't depressed, wasn't mentally ill just a very unhappy person and I should really just go away and get on with it!!!. I am going to write and complain about him because he had absolutely no personal skills whatsoever.
I would like to try ECT purely as another tool to try and it would need to be unilateral. What reasons does your Doctor give you for not giving you ECT? Are you working?
How does the neurontin help you? I've ordered Lyrica (offshoot of neurontin) off the internet but am a bit dubious about taking it as it seems to have made some people more depressed.
I hate being like this, I really do, ordering stuff willy nilly off the internet, scouring the internet daily for answers, possible treatments, I'm so obsessive about feeling normal again but I don't know what else to do.
I have to say, what has been a life saver for me and has been 10mg Zyprexa when taken now and again. I thank God for the private psychiatrist who prescribed it for me when this whole depression started up again. The only time I ever feel really sort of normal and actually quite nice though is when it's wearing off. Maybe you shoud ask your Doctor about adding an anti-psychotic to an SSRI.
Denise
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