Jeebus. I wish I had more information to offer. I know that Carrie Fisher, who is I believe bipolar II, speaks very highly of that treatment, how she feels that the memories you lose are the expendable ones. Seems like a lot to hope for though, that whatever memory loss occurs could be just that serendipitously selective. It must vary quite a bit.
Will you be having follow-up physician visits, specifically for the purpose of checking on your long-term response to the treatment? Seems like that would be a good idea, but I don't know very much about how it works. I hope you're experiencing benefits from the treatment, in addition to having to adjust to other effects.  
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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