One thing I've discovered is that different pdocs handle ECT differently. When I was in the hospital last time, I met a man who had had ECT at a different hospital. He said he was amazed to see the people coming back from ECT be so alert and feeling so good just minutes after treatment at our hospital. Apparently where he had had it done, they must have used much more analgesia or something because he said they would be out for hours after treatment and have horrible headaches each and every time. That is not at all what goes on with my pdoc in my hospital. We're up and about right afterwards and rarely have headache issues. He said the hospital he was in was a teaching hospital and that the interns/residents were doing the treatments. He suspects they were not being supervised as well as they should have.