TMS: Day 0

 So that was kind of weird. 

Today was the mapping. Basically they sat me in the chair and zapped my frontal lobe until I was the right amount of twitchy? It was up too high the first go round and I almost punch myself in the face. Bill is disappointed he didn’t get that on video. He did get pictures of me flipping him off however. 

The twitchy thing is apparently not an ongoing thing, just for mapping which is a relief. I don’t think I could sit for 20 minutes daily flailing around like Kermit the Frog. As for side effects, pretty minimal. I swear the room got brighter for some reason. Nobody really had an answer for that one. No headache, but considering the whole thing was done in less than 10 minutes maybe I just didn’t have time to develop one. Did feel kinda disoriented after for about 10 or so minutes. Kinda like everything was slightly to the left. 

Asked the nurse about a million questions, most which are irrelevant here. But the takeaway is that I could see improvement in as little as 2 weeks, but almost definitely by 4. She was thrilled that I’m keeping a blog about it to help document my treatment. I’m apparently a guinea pig for a lot of people interested in this but afraid to take the leap. 

Tomorrow is my first “real” treatment. It’s supposed to be kinda uncomfortable for the first week or two until my brain adjusts to being poked at daily. 

If anyone has any questions, drop em in the comments and I’ll either answer them or go bug my provider some more. 

Here’s to making it through intake!

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