That's why I was doing it. The way it worked was I'd go in to a room and sit down on a big padded chair and a nurse would run an IV line in to my arm. Then the doctor would put a syringe loaded with a ketamine solution in to a machine that squeezed the syringe at a very precise rate, so it would infuse ketamine in to my system over about 45 minutes. My job was to sit in the chair and trip balls. I described the experience as best I can further up the thread.
The course of treatment was that you did six treatments. You'd do three in one week, then one a week later, then like every two weeks for the last two. I forget what the exact timing was but it was something like that. And then after that, if it worked, you'd do a follow up every six months.
And supposedly, for a lot of people who have not benefited from other treatments, it can be like a magic bullet and get you out of depression and keep you out. It didn't have a lasting impact on me, personally, but I'm starting to think that my depression is less of a neurochemical illness and more of a divine curse of some kind, since nothing works on it.
The benefits are that doesn't fuck with your system very much, Ketamine is extremely safe when administered in a controlled setting, and you don't have to worry about weight gain or libido like you do with a lot of antidepressants. And, as mentioned, it works well for a lot of people who have otherwise had difficulty with treating their depression.
It was expensive. It cost 600$ per session for me, and as far as I know few if any insurance plans will cover it. But it's becoming more mainstream pretty rapidly, too, so hopefully that will change.
Yesterday i learned that they use ketamine for the treatment of depression in the US?
That's why I was doing it. The way it worked was I'd go in to a room and sit down on a big padded chair and a nurse would run an IV line in to my arm. Then the doctor would put a syringe loaded with a ketamine solution in to a machine that squeezed the syringe at a very precise rate, so it would infuse ketamine in to my system over about 45 minutes. My job was to sit in the chair and trip balls. I described the experience as best I can further up the thread.
The course of treatment was that you did six treatments. You'd do three in one week, then one a week later, then like every two weeks for the last two. I forget what the exact timing was but it was something like that. And then after that, if it worked, you'd do a follow up every six months.
And supposedly, for a lot of people who have not benefited from other treatments, it can be like a magic bullet and get you out of depression and keep you out. It didn't have a lasting impact on me, personally, but I'm starting to think that my depression is less of a neurochemical illness and more of a divine curse of some kind, since nothing works on it.
The benefits are that doesn't fuck with your system very much, Ketamine is extremely safe when administered in a controlled setting, and you don't have to worry about weight gain or libido like you do with a lot of antidepressants. And, as mentioned, it works well for a lot of people who have otherwise had difficulty with treating their depression.
It was expensive. It cost 600$ per session for me, and as far as I know few if any insurance plans will cover it. But it's becoming more mainstream pretty rapidly, too, so hopefully that will change.