Posted by Cecilia on May 31, 2005, at 2:12:26
In reply to Re: rTMS, posted by zola on May 30, 2005, at 11:54:22
For me, it felt literally like someone was pounding nails into my head with a hammer. The first week was the worst, it got better the second week, though still painful. Also, sometimes it would make my eyes water. I had a low grade headache off and on the whole 2 weeks, and it seemed to make me exhausted and worsen my insomnia, though maybe that was partly due to dread of the next day`s sessions. The literature describes the procedure as painless-the brochure actually suggests you could read during the sessions, so the first session was the worst, such a shock when you`re not expecting pain. I had 20 sessions-2 a day for 2 weeks at U.S.$200 a session (January 2004). Another woman there was on her second three week set of sessions. Apparently she had quite dramatic results with the first set of treatments but relapsed within 6 weeks, she said the second set of treatments helped, but not as much as the first. I`ve often wondered how she`s doing. She didn`t experience any pain with the sessions. I stayed at a Holiday Inn that was within walking distance of the clinic, it had a medical rate as it was close to a big hospital, and there were lots of restaurants and stores nearby. The treatments really made me tired. At first I would go browse at a nearby bookstore in the hour or two between sessions, but after a few days I couldn`t do that any more, all I could do was sit in a chair and listen to the loud pounding of another client getting treated. I told them they should get a quiet room with a couch for people to lie down between sessions, perhaps they have by now. But if what they told me is true, the kind of intense pain I felt is extremely rare, they really had no idea why, the doctor said maybe it was because I was on clonazepam, maybe because I was older (54), or maybe I just had a thick skull. Of course, if it had worked it would have been worth any amount of money and pain. Cecilia
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