At one point I was actually asking for ECT. For some reason I've totally forgotten I wasn't a candidate then. And now I probably wouldn't be a candidate because I've had a couple of bad anesthesia experiences. Which is fine because my MAOI works well and has for 6 years but if MAOIs quit then ECT would be almost all that is left and it scares me that I might not be able to do it. (Of course with everything exhausted they might do it when they wouldn't have before). I've seen such good things with a few people who had it. I'd also have problems with living too far away to do the outpatient part so I'd either be inpatient through the whole series or would have to have someone somehow get me there for treatments which would be about 6 hrs of driving per day. Definitely big issues but still a treatment that seems to work so well when it does work.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD.
Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily
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