Hello everyone, I have recently had 10 ECT treatments but they have not worked, can I ask you all if ECT has worked for you?
What did they do for you. I cannot eat anything. It all smells like burning plastic after 10 ECT treatments. I am frantic about this.
I remember quite a few times food would smell way beyond rotten to me but it tasted just fine but I've had psychosis nearly my entire life. It was particularly bad when I was sick with a cold one time and it was actually the reason I didn't want to eat rather than the cold itself.
WOW! I could have written that myself.
I've just completed 10 courses (twice a week) of ECT for my bipolar - current episode depression. My first weekend home I became convinced the garden had wild garlic growing in it and i spent ages pacing around trying to find the offending plants. However, within a day or so of this I started to smell rancid, rotten flesh. I was hunting high and low but couldn't find anything - then I sniffed my arm and 'realised' it was me. My husband said i smelled fine but i showered several times but still couldn't get rid of the smell and perfum, deodorant etc barely masked it. I couldn't escape it and even tried sniffing olbas oil to mask it!
It seemed like anything i'd ever touched stank of rotten flesh and I was convinced the best thing to do would be to incinerate everything. Fortunately my CPN found out and organised a meeting with my pdoc. He reassured me, changed my meds and within 48hrs it had passed.
When I've hallucinated in the past, smells were never involved. It may well be a glitch from the ECT but to be on ther safe side you should speak to your consultant.
Finally, I hope the ECT has, and will continue to, help.
Take care
S xxxx
I would ask your doctor. It sounds like you are experiencing an olfactory hallucination. I had one once.
how has ect worked for your bipolar? is this the first time?