Deep TMS as a Safe Treatment for Depression

Deep TMS treatment is a noninvasive procedure that has been demonstrated in clinical trials and actual practice usage to be well-tolerated. You should consult your doctor to see whether Deep TMS is right for you based on your own personal medical history.

Deep TMS has not been shown to cause any substantial or lasting side effects. A 2007 study in Clinical Neurophysiology confirmed this, finding Deep TMS to be a well-tolerated treatment that does not cause any adverse side effects. Individuals undergoing Deep TMS treatment may experience a slight discomfort during the procedure, with some reporting a tapping sensation in the area being treated.

BrainsWay’s unique, patented H-Coil technology is held inside a cushioned helmet fitted onto the patient’s head. Upon activation, the H-coil produces magnetic pulses that regulate the brain’s neural activity.

BrainsWay’s Deep TMS sessions for depression last approximately 20 minutes, as opposed to 40-minute standard rTMS sessions. Alternatively, a 3-min intermittent theta burst (iTBS) session is also available. A Deep TMS treatment plan usually requires daily sessions over 7 weeks, followed by periodic maintenance sessions.

Depression, Anxious depression, anxiety, OCD and smoking addiction

Ketamine is safe however

SPRAVATO® can cause serious side effects, including:

• Sedation, dissociation, and respiratory depression. SPRAVATO® may cause sleepiness (sedation), fainting, dizziness, spinning sensation, anxiety, or feeling disconnected from yourself, your thoughts, feelings, space and time (dissociation), and breathing problems (respiratory depression and respiratory arrest).

  • Tell your healthcare provider right away if you feel like you cannot stay awake or if you feel like you are going to pass out.

• Your healthcare provider must monitor you for serious side effects for at least 2 hours after taking SPRAVATO®. Your healthcare provider will decide when you are ready to leave the healthcare setting.

• For the first month, you’ll take SPRAVATO® twice per week, then once per week for the second month. After that, you and your provider will determine if treatment should be continued and will have the flexibility to decide your treatment frequency

You may benefit from taking SPRAVATO® with or without an oral antidepressant if you’re an adult with major depressive disorder (MDD) who has had an inadequate response to two or more oral antidepressants, known as treatment-resistant depression (TRD).

TMS- Most often patients continue medications with some dose adjustments possible and there are individuals that are able to discontinue medications, but this is case to case and not as common.

SPRAVATO® is a prescription medicine used:

• with or without an antidepressant taken by mouth, to treat adults with treatment-resistant depression (TRD)

• with an antidepressant taken by mouth, to treat depressive symptoms in adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) with suicidal thoughts or actions