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Posted by Denise1966 on May 26, 2005, at 3:43:53
Hi,
For those of you (if any) who've had ECT whilst working, how long after having ECT before you were you able to go back work?
My seroxat 40mg is no longer working after having spent 2 years trying to find something that would. I'm loathe to start the whole drug thing all over again especially with some of the horrible affect I get and am seriously thinking of just going for ECT. The thing is my work sort of keeps me going and helps me (at least it gives me some sense of purpose) but I'm loathe to have it and then find I can no longer work at all.
Thanks in Advance.......Denise
Posted by SLS on May 26, 2005, at 8:28:24
In reply to ECT and going back to work, posted by Denise1966 on May 26, 2005, at 3:43:53
> Hi,
>
> For those of you (if any) who've had ECT whilst working, how long after having ECT before you were you able to go back work?
>
> My seroxat 40mg is no longer working after having spent 2 years trying to find something that would. I'm loathe to start the whole drug thing all over again especially with some of the horrible affect I get and am seriously thinking of just going for ECT. The thing is my work sort of keeps me going and helps me (at least it gives me some sense of purpose) but I'm loathe to have it and then find I can no longer work at all.
Hi Denise.
If you receive unilateral treatments, a procedure that involves the stimulation of only one side of the brain, you should be relatively unaffected cognitively so that you can continue to work. With bilateral treatments, people often experience cognitive side effects that include memory difficulties (usually transient) and disorientation. A more recent trend is to use bifrontal placement (more towards the front of the head rather than on the sides). It has been suggested that this procedure offers the efficacy of bilateral while producing milder side-effects that are more like those of unilateral.
What type of procedure are you having?
- unilateral temporal left (low or high dose)
- unilateral temporal right (low or high dose)
- bilateral temporal
- bifrontal
- Scott
Posted by denise1966 on May 28, 2005, at 12:56:50
In reply to Re: ECT and going back to work » Denise1966, posted by SLS on May 26, 2005, at 8:28:24
Hi Scott,
How are you? I've not actually been offered ECT but it's something I keep thinking about having. Not sure whether to try and push for it or not as maybe I'll be digging myself into a deeper hole. It would be very difficult I think to persuade any psychiatrist in the UK to let me try it as I'm functioning still and going to work.
I'm not too bad right now, just not got much motivation. I could just stick with this I suppose but no that there's a better way of feeling than this so why not just cut my losses and try the ECT.
Thanks for the advice, I was aware of the different methods, think if anything I'd try the unilateral first, it would make sense to.
Kind Regards Denise
Denise
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