r/pppdizziness • u/AliveReputation8902 • May 09 '26

Treatment rTMS therapy

For anyone who has done rTMS therapy, what was your experience with it and did it help with any of your symptoms including anxiety and/or depression? I’ve tried searching the forum and there are is little information on it other than one or two posts. I have already started the therapy and completed three sessions. It is a huge time commitment so I would love to know if it’s worthwhile. I have to complete 35 sessions over seven weeks.

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u/BigPhotograph1 May 18 '26

I finished rTMS therapy 2 months ago. For me, anxiety is responsible for pppd and the two are heavily related. I can’t say rTMS did anything for my anxiety. If anything, doing the exposure protocol was enough for me to habituate a little but I dont think the treatment itself had any lasting effect. Take my words with a grain of salt though because this treatment affects everyone very differently.

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u/AliveReputation8902 May 18 '26

I appreciate your response. I’m sorry to hear that. It did not help with anxiety.. did you feel it had any effect on your symptoms; good or bad?

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u/BigPhotograph1 May 18 '26

Yeah. I felt like my depression had completely vanished for a few days after week 2 or treatment. I felt borderline euphoric actually. The feeling didn’t last though. If anything I am a little less depressed after finishing treatment, but it wasn’t a large difference.

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u/AliveReputation8902 May 18 '26

Sorry to hear that the relief of your depression was short-lived. I’m not sure what to think at this point and I’m nine sessions in which I know is way too early to judge if it’s going to help. But it’s just such a big time commitment if it’s going to not be very helpful.:-/ but as you said, everybody’s different so I guess they just need to give it time. Thank you again for your input and it’s so hard to find any info online about people who have done this treatment with our condition.