Hello….i am at session 20. I am at the 120 tesla (unsure if correct unit). The machine at the clinic is neurostar. I am very tired afterwards and i tend to get headaches. Does anyone else experience this?
Doing rtms and now I’m my 16 session
Just wondering did anyone else get more messed up cause of it
I’m having feelings of dream like reality
Hard time concentrating
More paranoia
Swallowing the tongue issues
All started when I started a mouth ago and don’t know if it’s part of my rtms and if anyone had issues like these ? I’m thinking of stopping
I ended up doing just 3 3-minute sessions of TMS on the left side of my head for MDD but I’m worried that it could’ve already done some permanent damage to me. The pulses would hurt inside the left part my brain. My last session was 2 days ago and I still have an ache on that side of my head and my tinnitus is worse. Each session would make me feel very irritable and even more depressed than before for at least the rest of that day. Friday a week ago was my mapping and first session. The technician that was there said she was filling in for the usual technician. Despite the papers I signed saying I needed ear plugs, she said I didn’t and that they didn’t even have any there. The machine was not loud at all so I thought it wouldn’t be a problem. But I guess the magnetic pulses, not the noise, made my tinnitus worse. The NP who did my initial consultation mapped my brain with her and then left. The technician started my first session and the first few pulses just felt like tapping on my scalp. She then turned it up, saying it works better the stronger it is, but those pulses really hurt bad. So she turned it down but it still hurt, just not as bad. She said that’s ok as long as I can bear it, and since it would only be 3 minutes, I decided to bear the pain because I really needed this to work. I had a headache on that side of my head for the rest of that day and all of Saturday even though their papers said that if I do get a headache, it shouldn’t last longer than 30 minutes. By Sunday it would come and go, but even when it stopped hurting, I would just feel something on the left side of my head. I have had a lot of headaches and migraine headaches for the last 10 weeks and whenever it’s a migraine, it’s a pounding pain in the left side of my head like it has to do with a blood vessel. They had gotten a lot less severe and frequent in the days leading up to the TMS. I told them all of these things. But this headache from the TMS felt different from those. It was just on the left side of my head but not pounding, just constant.
On Monday, the usual technician was there and she confidently said it’s not supposed to hurt. She seemed impatient and cold like she hated her job or hated me. She turned the strength down until it didn’t hurt and said that’s a very low power that would need to go up in subsequent sessions for the TMS to work. She scheduled me for a remapping on Wednesday with nothing on Tuesday. The NP was back to remap me on Wednesday and said it’s ok if it feels uncomfortable but not painful. This time he also mapped the right side of my head. They were supposed to also do TMS for OCD a couple weeks later. He left and the technician did my third session. She turned the power down until the pain was bearable. I told her it still hurt a little but this time she said that’s ok. Once again I felt very irritable and even more depressed afterwards. The teeth on the right side of my head were sensitive for a few hours after this session. My tinnitus is still worse and the left side of my head still hurts.
I’m sorry this was so long but is it normal for the TMS pulses to be painful? They sent me a lot of mixed messages about this.
Edit: I forgot to mention my body felt very tense and my arms and legs kept twitching when I tried to sleep the night after the first session.
I am on 34 sessions of tms. I've done 16 of the treatments on right side too. If you've done TMS, did you see most of the anxiety relief toward the end or in the weeks after. Please, only positive experiences. Thank you.
I completed session 15 today and don’t feel any different. I haven’t felt a dip, I haven’t felt a boost, I haven’t felt anything.
I’m doing BrainsWay left side stimulation for OCD and MDD. I was told that most patients see a small benefit within 2-4 weeks with significant improvements throughout weeks 4-6. I’m right around week 3 and…nothing.
How long did it take you to notice improvements?
Been doing accelerated TMS up to 6 sessions per day. Today I'm 30 sessions in and after experiencing TMS dip I finally started feeling a lot better. Typing this out at night as I can't sleep because of excitement and in the morning I'm going for a run and a good workout. Man, this ain't just "magic magnets", it actually works. Cool. Can't wait for the last 6 sessions and peak mental gains.
I did about 30 of the TMS sessions but could not participate in the tapering down ones due to insurance issues so I randomly just stopped getting it: I have headaches every day that aren’t like disabling but enough to be like damn another headache?
I see online some people having this issue after finishing treatment but I am also having insane dreams some sleep paralysis rem disruption and it just makes me feel so anxious when I wake up and scared to go to sleep sometimes.
I have hypochondriac issues so even a headache is enough to convince me I’m dying. Just looking for some reassurance from somebody who dealt with something similar as I’m 3 weeks out since I last had a session and I still am getting headaches and usually have to wear sunglasses if I go outside because it will make it worse most days. Once I’m in my room it kinda stops though.
I just finished 34 sessions of BrainsWay dTMS for OCD (ocd protocol) about a week ago and I’m really disappointed.
For anyone who’s done the OCD protocol, did anyone here have very little/no noticeable improvement during the actual treatment but then start seeing changes in the weeks afterward? If anything, my OCD became worse during the treatment course and I also became more depressed and irritable.
I’m trying not to completely write it off yet since it’s only been a week, but after going through 34 sessions and not feeling much different, it’s hard not to feel like it didn’t work.
Would really appreciate hearing from anyone who had a delayed response, especially if you initially felt like the treatment wasn’t doing anything.