Understanding Ketamine Infusion Therapy - Psyched Conference 2022

[@starlightpancake]

Ketamine therapy saved my life

[@swimfit57]

Great pod cast

[@ensignj3242]

Many medications are used for both animals and people.

[@NadaNada-dv8wx]

Personally I’m trying Ketamine for Chronic Pain 😊

[@loriecarter3414]

May I ask did it work for pain?

[@Superflow25]

Can you explain the problems with taking benzodiazepines with Ketamine treatments? How do you overcome this issue?

[@KetamineClinicsLA]

there arent necessarily problems with it, just the possibility the benzos can attenuate (reduce) the effect of the ketamine. If possible, skip doses of benzos 6 hours prior and 6 hours after ketamine treatment.

[@Superflow25]

@@KetamineClinicsLA Benzo's use the same GABA receptors don't they? Some have 48 hr half lives. Wouldn't they still be in the system after 6 hours? Why do many clinics require the patient to be off all anti-depressant meds for 2 weeks before?

[@KetamineClinicsLA]

@@Superflow25 Its not about them being totally out of the system, but their acute effects. We are not aware of any clinics that require patients to abstain from antidepressant medications for 2 weeks nor is there any clinical basis for this.

[@starlightpancake]

Benzos are known as “trip killers”

[@sheilawallace9177]

Is it covered insurance qise and hiw do you ransition off so you ar addicted for life?

[@jbisntme]

If after a ketamine session , you have great results regarding treatment resistant depression , can you then throw away the pills , ( antidepressants ) !

[@stacisrainbownursery7825]

Good question

[@KetamineClinicsLA]

Its important to work with your prescribing physician before changing your medications. Some patients do wean off of meds after ketamine, but it must be done responsibly with a prescriber.

[@maafa21MustSee]

"Not sponsored by pharmaceutical houses" 🔑

[@KetamineClinicsLA]

Big Pharma makes no money on the sale of racemic IV ketamine, it is a cheap generic drug. They want you to take your zoloft and welbutrin and other high margin pills. This works faster, better, and safer.

[@scottholzinger980]

@@KetamineClinicsLA then why are treatments thousands of dollars? No insurance company will pay for it of course. If Ketamine has lost it's patent and is so "cheap". Then why the outrageous prices? I'm seeing at home oral Ketamine for $158 per session. Is that even worth my time and the FDA approved nasal Ketamine is the "S-type" and only activated certain aspects of the brain.

[@KetamineClinicsLA]

@@scottholzinger980 That is an excellent question. The labor and facility costs to deliver the medicine in a safe, clinical, hospital grade environment are what produce a price point that is higher than the cost of the medicine itself. We do hope things will change with insurance in the future, but IV Ketamine Infusions delivered in clinic are the gold standard of care that produce results that are overwhelmingly superior to any other route of administration.

[@karencarney7595]

I am going to try this next week... I'll update once I get the treatment..crossing fingers it wil be successful (80% success rates with depression ans ocd)

[@maureenseel118]

It was life saving and life affirming treatment for me. I hope it helps you.

[@drew.851]

How was it?

[@bs.6555]

Hi there .... did you ever get this done?

[@storm4515]

Any updates?

[@rinanorden2343]

I have been in Ketamine or CRPS and other chronic pain conditions, over the last three years and has stop counting as in hospital patient as well as out patient at a pain clinic. Apart for helping for the chronic pain, it also helps a lot with calming your whole nervious system down, helping with anxiety and the depression that is due to many operations and ‘pain episodes’ that kept me bedridden for months on end at times, that left me with severe PTSD. Apart from improving my pain and mental health, I also starting to experience better cognition and I thought I was imagining myself when I started realising my thinking is becoming more clearer. What they discribing as neuro plasticity I am experiencing it in real time. I only had good experiences. It has changed my life👍🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼