When I first wake up I'm a little wobbly on my feet, but that's because of the anaesthesia. You're right that they're inducing a seizure, but it's only taking place in the brain. The body doesn't seize because the anaesthesiologist also gives you a muscle relaxant which prevents them physically reacting along with the cerebral seizure. To put it simply, I'm a little dizzy and unsteady, but not so much that I don't go to the coffee shop immediately upon leaving the hospital.


Initial course of treatments and IP stays. Yes, that was my experience for the simple reason that I live 2 hours from the hospital and they schedule 3 treatments/week (MWF) for 3 or 4 weeks to sort of get an extra boost at the start. So I would suspect that if you live close enough to the facility where you're getting ECT that driving back and forth isn't an inconvenience they'd be ok with that. Of course, you're going to have a driver to get you home so it may come down to driver availability over any actual clinical reason for IP. But it's not like you'd look back on a 4 week stay IP and bemoan the food and boredom of the ward. You won't remember the initial series at all, at least I don't. Now, however, I am much more alert and functional after ECT. I come home and do dishes, laundry, tune my bike up, all sorts of activities I wouldn't have thought possible in the early stages of ECT like back in 2016 when my maintenance was still every other week.

I've probably given you more than you were looking for. I hope I didn't bore you. Feel free to ask anything else that comes to mind.