I had my second ECT this morning as Tuesday's was cancelled at the last moment (I was actually in the ECT room and was told they'd f*cked up the aneasthatist's rotas). I was very upset - it was a huge anticlimax.

Today I was given two jolts because they decided the first one wasn't big enough!

Ugg. Can't shift the resulatant headache, I'm cold, and I could sleep forever :)

My memory issues have been different this time. After the first one I couldn't remember much at all, mostly big-ish things. Most of my memory returned after a couple of days.

Today I can't remember stuff like how to use my mobile phone! I didn't recognise the ward when I was brought back, or my house, and couldn't remember where the cat food was kept (much to their annoyance), and where other things were kept. A lot of this has returned now thank goodness. I've just been out for a drive and had to ask who the band was that we were listening to on the stereo.

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A tip for anyone reading this who might need ECT themselves in the future: Get someone close to you to write you a short letter telling you what's happened, that your memory will be severely affected, and to text them when it's done so they can ring you and fill you in. And don't forget to ask the nurse to tell you about the note as soon as you return to the ward, and where it is! Hubby did that for me, and it was a massive help. It stopped me panicking with the memory-loss.

Sorry chaps that these posts about my ECT are quite lengthy (and dull I'm sure). When I looked for info - any info - about the actual experience of having electro convulsive therapy, there was none at all (nothing useful). Given it's the wold wide web, that's pretty crap. So that's why I'm giving so much information in the hope that it might be of some use to someone else doing a search on what's going to happen to them.