Adding VNS Therapy to your treatment plan has been shown to work when other antidepressant treatments have not.1 Sometimes medications alone do not adequately relieve depression, or they relieve depression for a period of time, but then stop working.2 If multiple medications and other antidepressant treatments have not adequately or continuously relieved your depression, it may be time to discuss VNS Therapy with your psychiatrist as a long-term treatment option.
Not all depression is the same. Psychiatrists have found that antidepressant medications are effective in 60% to 75% of people overall. 2 When depression has not responded to 4 or more adequate antidepressant treatments, this is a common condition called treatment resistant depression, or TRD. Since TRD may have multiple causes, some people may require a different type of ongoing treatment for their depression.
If you would like to know if you could benefit from adjunctive VNS Therapy for treatment resistant depression, talk to your psychiatrist. Click here to assess your depression and find out if VNS Therapy is right for you Share the outcomes from the self-assessment with your psychiatrist during your next office visit.
Learn more about the use of VNS Therapy for bipolar treatment-resistant depression.
VNS Therapy has been shown to succeed in people who have had ECT. A person who has VNS Therapy for treatment-resistant depression can have ECT later, if necessary. Learn more about the use of VNS Therapy and Electroconvulsive Therapy.
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