Amazing News/Maintenance

So one of the researchers approached the principal investigator, Dr. Fox at the UTHSCSA, about my quest to get maintenance TMS (and not revert at all). She said that he didn't even let her finish her question, he said YES they would pursue changing the protocol to include providing maintenance for me and the other subjects if/when we find we are getting depressive symptoms again. It helps that the treatment I am getting in the study is irTMS, not just rTMS which is what is out there now for treatment. My treatment is image directed, rapid TMS, and I guess the practitioners are not using the image directed. Basically the location of the coil is placed against my head directed by an MRI image of my head which is fit by a digital cap image taken every time I go. They use a digital pen and outline my scalp and then fit the "cap" image on my brain image to get the target as exact as they can each time.

ANYWAY, I am kind of in shock about the good news. I feel I can relax and not worry and plan my future without a worrisome relapse ahead of me. All I can think of lately is making some kind of prioritized list of things to do while I am as well as I am. Aside: I still have my fibromyalgia symptoms pretty strongly, although I feel pretty sure the pain level is much lower than before. I have been able to exercise starting this week - ahead of this, just getting out of bed, taking a shower, washing my hair, getting dressed, driving across town was just a HUGE improvement and increase in my activity. Yesterday I went to Blossom Pool and swam laps for 20 minutes - so sore now. I am not kidding, I was smiling in the water as I used my body - it felt so good. I have an appointment with an internist, Dr. Tamyra Rogers, for weight loss help later today. I have already been doing a modified Medifast diet with her for a week now and have lost 5 pds (I was eating a lot of carbs before TMS). THE FUTURE LOOKS SO BRIGHT, I GOTTA WEAR SHADES!