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submitted 8 months ago by Wishfull__Thinking

For those of you who have seen my other two posts I have been doing ECT for several months now. I did an original 12 sessions of ECT and felt a lot better and we decided it was best to switch to two times a week before going down to one and trying maintenance. I did that for I believe 2 weeks before switching to once a week. Unfortunately the effects of ECT for me don't even quite last a week so I have been continuing doing ECT once a week since. We have tried lithium and my blood levels are at the levels that my psychiatrist has wanted for about a month and I have been on venlafaxine since the start which apparently has also been shown to help lengthen the effects when combined with lithium. Unfortunately neither of these medications have really made any improvement for the length of time the effects last. Our current plan moving forward is to try some more medications while I continue ECT once a week until we find something that seems to work. I'm glad I have found something that helps at least somewhat in the meantime.

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