I am most interested as well. I had given this information to my husband when I first heard of it. Unfortunately with his depression he is a great procrastinator or will not even follow thru. He has done other programs at Stanford with no positive outcomes yet.

I would love to try this but there are so few places that do it. I’m also not sure if it’s covered by insurance.

Yes. The one hospital that offered it was Iowa City and they just closed it down because they didn't want to meet the quota of patients that the company (MAGNUS) required 🥺

My insurance was accepted by the Iowa hospital...

I live near Phoenix, and the clinic I go to for Spravato will be starting the SAINT protocol very soon. It is a TMS treatment, and if you have not had luck with it in the past I would be curious to see if doing it this way will work. I have thought about it myself.

I sent you a private message

I wrote Johns Hopkins about this protocol. Their response was, they are looking for similar protocols, but would probably not be doing this one because of the cost involved.

Things are looking hopeful, though. Now that Stanford has proven a valuable protocol, others will follow along. Eventually.

I have had ECT and it was the worst thing that happened to me because I lost years I've lost at least 3 years that I do not remember that was very important to me. It helped for 6 months and then it stopped. I used TMS did not work for me

Post ECT I lost a lot of memories also. But doctors denied that it was from the ECT. So frustrating and sad!

I did ECT a few different times in my life. I lost the majority of my memories of my children's childhood. It was hands down the worst decision I ever made. It only made me a zombie, and what I lost was devastating.