http://www.ect.org/electroshock-as-head-injury/ Information about ECT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:38:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.ect.org/electroshock-as-head-injury/comment-page-1/#comment-148990 Donna Leist Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:53:27 +0000 http://www.ect.org/index.php/?p=426#comment-148990 I am also a ECT survivor of sorts. I had 12 treatments, 8 bilateral and 4 unilateral. My second ECT treatment was bad, I woke up in the middle of it I could not breathe is all I remember. They tested my CPK levels that day and it was 2000. They tested it a week later and it was 58. When I ask What that means I am not given an answer. I use to work in the lab, and I did not know what that meant. I have been looking and all I know is that it shows muscle damage. Now I feel weak, I use to move the furniture by myself, now I have trouble balancing and standing for any length of time. I have been trying to push myself to be active, and I notice that instead of it getting easier, it is getting harder. I could not read or comprehend anything, I would walk up my street and not recognize the houses. I could not drive my car. I have a daughter with ADHD, and many of my problems are the same, so I am being treated with Adderell along with other medicines and at least now I am driving, it still takes a lot of energy to stay focused but it helps me feel less useless. I still have trouble reading and understanding but it has gotten a little better also. My memory is the most frustrating thing, it is like swis cheese, there is no clear lines to what I can and cannot remember. How about thinking of a word and not being able to sound it out to spell it, that really upsets me. Well, I hope me telling of my story helps someone. I am also a ECT survivor of sorts. I had 12 treatments, 8 bilateral and 4 unilateral. My second ECT treatment was bad, I woke up in the middle of it I could not breathe is all I remember. They tested my CPK levels that day and it was 2000. They tested it a week later and it was 58. When I ask What that means I am not given an answer. I use to work in the lab, and I did not know what that meant. I have been looking and all I know is that it shows muscle damage. Now I feel weak, I use to move the furniture by myself, now I have trouble balancing and standing for any length of time. I have been trying to push myself to be active, and I notice that instead of it getting easier, it is getting harder. I could not read or comprehend anything, I would walk up my street and not recognize the houses. I could not drive my car. I have a daughter with ADHD, and many of my problems are the same, so I am being treated with Adderell along with other medicines and at least now I am driving, it still takes a lot of energy to stay focused but it helps me feel less useless. I still have trouble reading and understanding but it has gotten a little better also. My memory is the most frustrating thing, it is like swis cheese, there is no clear lines to what I can and cannot remember. How about thinking of a word and not being able to sound it out to spell it, that really upsets me. Well, I hope me telling of my story helps someone.

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