Re: ECT good for fibromyalgia

• From: "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" <Nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:07:11 GMT

"Cripple" <duh@xxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>I understand that this subject is pert near dead.  BUT I was reading thru
> this and saw this line that Laurie wrote and it was like a bolt of 
> lightning
> struck.
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> I think this statement of yours is the most important statement or 
> question
> of the entire thread or until this point.
>
> I think I am addressing this directly to Laurie.  The rest of you can read
> it
> also.
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> Laurie,  You need to take on faith that what I tell you, comes from many
> years of experience.
>
> I have personally witnessed EST and the aftermath of the treatment.
> Although I can not speak from the perspective of a patient as I have not
> experienced EST (Electro shock Therapy) myself.
> I was a counselor in a psychiatric halfway house.  I was a chemical
> dependency counselor at a very prestigious treatment center.   I have
> witnessed seizures triggered by the patient themselves and by doctors.
> I am also an alcoholic, with almost 29 years of continuous sobriety.  I 
> tell
> you this so you may take this into account when you decide if I know what 
> I
> am talking about or if I am just full of BS like a few of the posters are.
>
> But what you said made me sit up and take notice.   I think you made the
> most insightful statement or point of this topic thus far.
>
> When the doctors treated you with the EST, I am assuming that you were 
> also
> treated by them with anti-depressants and other medications.  But I doubt
> that you told them that you were self medicating with alcohol.
> This self medication could very easily produce result of the EST that the
> doctors did not understand.  Or did not understand why the results of the
> EST was not as expected.
>
> "Being on the wagon" should have a significant effect on how you are 
> feeling
> today as opposed to when you were drinking.
>
> You can not have any expectation that the doctors could help you EVER if
> they were not aware of all the drugs you were taking.  The effect of the
> alcohol on the medications that the doctors RX'ed for you, will cause the
> medications to act very differently than what was anticipated when they
> RX'ed your meds.
>
> Your results from the EST probably would have been very different if the
> doctors knew what drugs you were using for self medication.  Drinking
> alcohol is most defiantly self medicating.
>
> I know this as I did it to myself for many years and I am confident that I
> did not divulge to the doctors what I was taking

Thanks for the reply.  Yes, the docs knew I am an alcoholic.  ECT is still 
being considered...  Today is day 34 of sobriety.  Time will give me the 
answer I need.  What I do KNOW is that I refuse to live my life being 
depressed.  I will do anything to get better...  and STAY SOBER!

-- 

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       ¸.·´  .·´¨¨))
       Laurie
   ((¸¸.·´  ..·´
     -:¦:-  ((¸¸ ·.·

*~*LiveLoveLaugh, and hangin' in there!*~*

Paddle together, bail, paddle; paddle, bail; paddle towards the land.
~Hawaiian proverb



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> "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" <Nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Also, since I'm feeling a lot better...  the question is "is it
>> because of the ECT treatments, or is it because I am not drinking any
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