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Patients may continue to take antidepressant medication while receiving TMS therapy if recommended by their physicians.
Since medications either didn’t work for me or made me feel absolutely awful due to their side effects, when I started my TMS therapy I had stopped taking them altogether. I’m aware of some patients who continued their meds while starting TMS and then got off them once they were into their six weeks of treatment, and others who have continued them after TMS, but at much lower doses.
I definitely recommend going by your doctor’s assessment of how you’re doing, as well as your own feelings about it.
Before I started treatment, I was on a medication that worked for about a month, then I felt so much worse when it pooped out.
My doctor kept me on the medication for the first few months of treatment, and once I started responding we tapered off.
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