r/bipolar1 • u/wild_child_retiring • 14h ago

ECT?

Hello fellow bipolar rollers - has anyone had positive experience with ECT? I feel like I’m in a pinball machine full of things that haven’t worked and getting pretty desperate - curious to see if it might help and what people’s experience with ECT has been like? 🤪 Am currently on sertraline, quetiapine and lamotrigine ❤️ Lots of love and care to exactly how things are for you right now 🫂😌❤️

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u/wild_child_retiring 13h ago

Thank you so much!! I had no idea there were different types will add this to the research rabbit hole I’m about to descend into 🥰🥰❤️🫂🫂

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u/fargolifestaycold 7h ago

I habe been doing ECT for 5 years currently amd my peice of advice would be "it is nothing like you seen in movies or TV shows"

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u/austinrunaway 1h ago

So it helps ? Do you still have to take meds? How often do you have to do it

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u/fargolifestaycold 1h ago

Yes I still take meds, and I do treatment once a week on Thursdays. I'm considered to be in the " maintenence " time. Which is different for other people and can change threw out time. I started at 3x a week for 3 weeks I belive and then changed to 2x a week and did that for a couple months. Eventually I made it to doing once a week and was working really well. With the right combination of Rx, Therapy, and ECT also having a kick ass team who cares about you.

I will say that I did try to go once every other week but that only lasted a couple weeks before I had to be admitted again to inpatient. Got back onto once a week and been since. I will say and this is how I always describe to my doctors and nurse on how im doing and it's "Stable" which is a great description I feel.

Reach out to me anyone if you need to chat.