Ketamine Therapy

[doughmixer1982]

Anyone like to share there Ketamine therapy ?

 

[toofargone6969]

Anyone like to share there Ketamine therapy ?

Share their experiences? You might get more responses in the recovery forum.

I tried it and it made me worse. I only had 2 infusions and couldn't take anymore. It didn't help me at all. But being on ketamine was nice until it wore off and I felt completely empty and deprived of all emotions. It intensified all my mental disorders. The integration therapist sucked though. It works for a lot of people though. Ask in the recovery forum or on reddit, therea a subreddit for ketamine therapy with good info.

 

[LaVieEnRose]

The intoxication was nice the first few times but it ultimately didn't do anything for me. Plus it's extraordinarily expensive.

 

[countdown3210]

I just got home from one. I've been getting the anti-suicide dosing Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday this week. It seems to have worked for now. I went through this 9 months ago and it came back. I feel like I'm only on borrowed time until the frantic desire to ctb happens again. Next time I'll have everything I need to do it though. No waiting or sourcing and can just follow my instincts. So I may have a few months of relief again. Guess we'll see.

 

[wait.what]

I found the visions/hallucinations terrifying. I did get some mood improvement from the infusions (not the nasal spray, though). Unfortunately, my improved mood fizzled after a few days. A combo of IV ketamine and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) gave me some relief for about a month. That kind of treatment isn't sustainable, though. On top of being crazy expensive, you do literally nothing else for the duration of treatment, which is like 4-6 weeks. You can't—you feel like a wrung-out washing rag afterward.

Edit: There is some robust trial data on ketamine. There's less on ketamine + TMS, but it looks very promising. This forum isn't really where you go for treatment success stories, though. I second the idea that asking this question in Recovery might give you more of what you're looking for. Unless you WANT to read: "It failed." "Failed here too." "Rated F for 'failure.'" :p

 

[LaVieEnRose]

I found the visions/hallucinations terrifying. I did get some mood improvement from the infusions (not the nasal spray, though). Unfortunately, my improved mood fizzled after a few days. A combo of IV ketamine and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) gave me some relief for about a month. That kind of treatment isn't sustainable, though. On top of being crazy expensive, you do literally nothing else for the duration of treatment, which is like 4-6 weeks. You can't—you feel like a wrung-out washing rag afterward.

Unfortunately ketamine is very short-lived. That works out well for the clinics though since a lot of the doctors are entrepreneurs first, doctors second.

 

[avaruus]

I've only done it recreationally, it works only for the actual duration of the drug for me, but during it, it feels like total peacefulness.
A couple hours later when i sober up, it's back to normal.