Electroconvulsive therapy

Ok - I'm going to do it! It's time to talk about ECT ladies. Electroconvulsive therapy. Not something that is fun, but necessary. I'm going to post it as a discussion in the forum too. Here's my story in nutshell. I've had 21 treatments all together. The first 11 were with my post-Zachary PPD and my second 10 were post-Joshua. I have few regrets about having ECT. Both times it helped bring me out of my depression quite nicely. I wish that there was an easier way, but when you have the problems with metabolizing meds like I do, sometimes your choices are limited and you gotta do what you gotta do to get better. So, that's what I did. The only thing I really do regret is the memory loss. I have no memories of the first 5 months of Zachary's life and very few memories of 2 months of Joshua's. That makes me sad.

One thing that is really weird though, I still have many issues with memory. I have trouble remembering conversations especially. It's embarassing because I often ask people questions that I should know the answer to. Other mothers say their memory's suck too - but I wonder - is it motherhood - or ECT remnants? I guess I'll never know.