Dear Billie,
I don't have any experience with this.
I did go to an hour long consult with my work friend and learned a lot about the procedure. The pdoc had lots of stats and studies.

I wonder if the ECT community keeps better stats than the workers in the depression community can.


Of course keep doing your research.
I was concerned about headaches. The pdoc said that a VERY small number of people continue getting headaches that do not respond to treatment. That was a very tiny group of people but having untreatable headaches would stink.. . . unless the depression was lifted through ect.. . . .
. . . . there are some trade offs to think about.



The pdoc was encouraging with his stats . . . . Even so, the pdoc was a bit discouraging because he said that my friend had a life time of depression and was looking at not a fabulous prognosis even with ECT.


Has your pdoc done the procedure?

M.