ketathrowaway

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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
The value the ketamine doc (in my case, both docs have been anesthesiologists) provides, that a psychiatrist doesn't, are: (1) Safely starting an IV on you (2) Monitor your heart rate, O2, bp levels during the infusion - sometimes peop
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
> What is true about IV is you can control the amount that actually gets taken in much better. I agree 100% with this. Furthermore, being able to carefully control the dose and duration is paramount in getting the effects to last as long
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
The effectiveness of ketamine for depression is all about the state it puts your mind in. This is obvious because the drug itself has totally left your body shortly after administration, but the effects can last much longer. In this respect
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
Which doctors, exactly, are you referring to when you say "these doctors you are talking about"? What makes you think both my doctors don't have clinical experience? (I never stated, you never asked. As it turns out, they bot
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
Yes, I am indeed saying you should trust the opinions of people with medical training and experience. Especially doctors that have been treating depression with ketamine for years. Whether or not they're an anesthesiologist or one of t
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
I agree with you that what works best for some may not work the best for others. I disagree that doctors who charge a few hundred bucks for this "don't give a shit" about their patients. I also know that, from personal experi
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
You do not build up a tolerance to ketamine if you follow the treatment protocol, which dictates a lower dose (around 100mg, give or take for body weight), and one infusion every 3-6 weeks. Source: Been having regular infusions every 3-6 mo
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
One more thing I'd like to add, my mother has a very similar kind of depression as I do, and ketamine was not effective for her at all. She was on a fairly high, regular dose of opiate medication, and also she's in her mid 50s. Do
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
> Is the dose administered during these sessions high enough to cause hallucinogenic effects? Yes. It isn't effective unless you get well into a hallucinogenic state. The antidepressant effect seems to be maximized by setting the do
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
2-3+ grams a day is crazy. Ketamine from a legit clinic is around 100mg give or take based on body weight, once per 3-6 weeks. If you increase the dose of any safe drug by that many orders of magnitude, yes, your body will be harmed!
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
> I would just buy some online and insufflate it. Safer than a needle and just as effective. Insufflation is only "just as effective" if your goal is to get an intense psychedelic high. If your goal is a strong antidepressant e
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
Ketamine's antidepressive effects are by far the most potent when ketamine is administered as an IV drip over a long period of time, like 40ish minutes. If you simply inject it all at once, you will definitely go to la la land, but the
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
I pay $375. And at a different doctor, before I found my current one, I was paying $750.
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
There is a gigantic difference in patient outcome between clinical ketamine use and recreational ketamine use. For a variety of reasons: careful dose control, having an actual doctor involved, etc. But the biggest one is the antidepressant
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
This has been my experience too. None of the ketamine-based drugs have been as effective as regular ketamine. That said, drug companies will not seek to get regular ketamine FDA approved because they can't patent it. So this is the onl
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
This is not strictly true. Chronic ketamine ABuse can cause urinary tract problems. The doses and frequency used in a clinical session emphatically do not cause this problem. Ketamine has been in regular use since 1970 for a wide range of m
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by ketathrowaway 8y ago
(Pardon the throwaway; I try to keep my medical history private!) I started monthly ketamine treatment about 3 years ago for treatment resistant depression. It has helped me immensely. It costs me $375 per infusion. I tried 1-3 drugs from e