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  • March 1, 2015 at 2:46 pm in reply to: Movement in fingers and right hand during treatment? #4957

    patrickjf
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    Thanks for asking Greg. They remapped me on Friday and came up with a much different result. The side effects stopped. I believe I may have had “the Dip” last week after treatment # 15. It lasted 6 to 7 days. I just have to see how things go. I have 10 treatments to go and I believe another 6 spread over time as a weaning off period!

    February 23, 2015 at 9:56 pm in reply to: Movement in fingers and right hand during treatment? #4933

    patrickjf
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    Thanks for asking. I just completed #16 and the Neorostar Representative was there. They observed me and talked to the Doctor for me. The Doctor is going to do a remapping very soon. I will let you guys know what happened.

    February 18, 2015 at 11:18 am in reply to: Starting tomorrow #4901

    patrickjf
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    Good luck Sooxie. I’m on session 12 and I agree with you that I wouldn’t describe it as a gental tapping. It’s usually fairly painful, I just grit my teeth and look forward to the end of the session. I don’t regret starting TMS. Everyone isn’t receiving the same in intensity. It depends on the Motor Threshold that the Doctor found in the first session. The higher your calculated Motor Threshold will determine the higher intensity of the pulses.

    February 15, 2015 at 10:19 pm in reply to: Movement in fingers and right hand during treatment? #4876

    patrickjf
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    Thanks for responding Colleen. I have talked to the Office Manager as well as to my TMS Technician. My only choices are to continue treatment or quit. Tomorrow is day 11 and there are no other TMS Doctors for 80 miles. I’ll just have to take my chances for a while.

    February 14, 2015 at 2:12 am in reply to: Movement in fingers and right hand during treatment? #4860

    patrickjf
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    Thanks Greg. I asked and they said it would be 2 or 3 weeks to get an appointment with the Doctor. I don’t think he is very competent with TMS. After his initial mapping on the Neurostar, he came up with a Motor Threshold of 1.37. I believe that is very high and may not be correct. This would cause the intensity to be higher than for most people. The intensity would then be set at 120% of the Motor Threshold. The higher the intensity, the more side effects. He was never able to get a thumb twitch, only movement in the pinky finger.

    February 12, 2015 at 10:02 pm in reply to: Movement in fingers and right hand during treatment? #4854

    patrickjf
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    Thanks Greg. My hand is only a couple of inches below my heart due to being in a reclined position and they use 3 inch pads on top of the arm rests. I don’t know why.

    I only met the Doctor once during the mapping process. He’s not very involved.

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