Thread: RUL ECT as just maybe a cure for RSD (in perhaps 2 out of 3 patients)
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Old 06-25-2008, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by fmichael View Post
Dear Jan -

PLEASE do not drop out without talking to your psychiatrist. It is my understanding that unless ketamine is used as the general anesthetic, a temporary loss in short term memory almost always "goes with the territory" of RUL ECT, but one recovers from it after 4 - 6 weeks. (This is in marked distiction to BL ECT, where there can be permanent retrograde amnesia.)

Frankly, I'm somewhat surprized that your practitioner didn't mention this up front. But seriously, it is not to worry.

Mike

Hi Mike,

Yes, they did mention it up front. And yes, I understood it to be temporary. But that will be the end of treatments for me.
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