Posted by Katgirl on April 10, 2010, at 13:52:27
In reply to Re: So why did you take it in the first place » Katgirl, posted by SLS on April 10, 2010, at 11:00:05
Hey Scott-
It was a couple of years ago, and I was so addled at the time, that I don't remember exactly how long I received treatment.
I DO know I received two treatments per day, 5 days a week and that I received at least two full weeks of treatment. What I don't remember, is if I received another full week after that, or if it was only a partial week.
I have been hesitant to repeat treatment because I ended up being very overstimulated from the treatments. At the Mind Care Centres I went to in Canada, they termed this the "Prozac effect". It caused horrible insomnia, and by the end of the treatments I was crawling out of my skin with horrific anxiety/agitation. Also, the post treatment "come down" was pretty bad for me (they warned me it would be).
Anyway, the overwhelming issue for me at the moment is anxiety, running thoughts etc and rTMS doesn't do anything for that.
Basically, over the last couple of years, the less trauma I inflect on my brain, the better I seem to do (EXCEPT with the anxiety issue). I think my brain is trying to reach some kind of homeostasis again. (I would like to stress that this is not an anti-med statement. I fully acknowledge that the best thing I could have done was to have STAYED on the Paxil that was working for me.)
So, at the moment I'm not ready for another course of it. But if I started to go back into the really horrible suicidal, clinical depression I would try it again in a heart beat.
Kat
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