deep TMS

Hi @APS45 and welcome to the forums

One helpful resource for finding services near you is Health Direct. You can use their service finder here.

Another option is to talk to your gp about this and discuss a potential referral to a service near you. Do you have a good GP who you could talk to about this?

Sorry, I don’t know either. Have you had a hospital stay before? I reckon they’d be the best people to ask. @APS45

I know people who have had TMS, but that was inpatient stays. Hope you find what you are looking for.

And I believe they had TMS for depression and not OCD.

@Ru-bee @BPDSurvivor responses above for you 😊

@APS45 a lil tip for ya - you can tag people you want to respond to by using the @ symbol and typing the username and selecting it. like this @APS45 - this notifies the tagged person of your response, hope this helps!

I know your post is a few weeks old, but in case it still helps @APS45, TMS is definitely available in NSW as an Outpatient, however I am not sure if it is available for OCD or only MDD.

I had TMS last year as an Outpatient for MDD, ended up not doing it in NSW but one of the places I had a pre-treatment eligibility assessment with was in Sydney.

I hope you've been able to find out whether or not anywhere can do it for OCD. Your GP may be able to help with knowing whether you can get Medicare rebates or not; you can for Treatment Resistent Depression with a referral.

Thanks very much for your reply, @AlwaysMyself

You mentioned having TMS as an outpatient. I assume that was ordinary TMS? I'm keen to know if DEEP TMS is available for OCD on an outpatient basis in NSW.

I did notice you specified "deep" TMS, but when I googled that term the results didnt seem to distinguish between "deep" and any other.

I am very curious though what "deep" TMS is and how it is different from standard TMS - if you are happy to share/explain for me @APS45 ?🙂

Part of the reason im interested is I had an usual adverse reaction to the TMS, it somehow stimulated areas it was not meant to be targeting?! I had to stop after a few weeks.

I just did a bit more googling and now see what dTMS is as compared to rTMS. I had no idea there was another version, and I notice that it says dTMS is less of an issue with having a precise/exact placement of the coils as it is broader. That is of high interest to me, as it has been one concern I had with my TMS and I wondered if that could have been partly involved in it stimulating areas it wasn't mean to - i felt that each day it was abit different in positioning, and my gosh if I needed to sneeze or cough that could sent it right off!!

@APS45 i did a good and MMHS advertise dTMS for OCD and say it does not require hospitalisation. They have 4x clinics in NSW according to their locations. I dont know the clinic, they're not where I went, but they may be an option for you??