Ketamine for Pain
Ketamine is an excellent option for many people who suffer from chronic pain. Ketamine resets the brain and how it handles pain signals (central sensitization). Ketamine infusions are typically initiated a few times over 2-4 hours at a time.
Ketamine is NOT an Opioid- Ketamine has helped many people to get off opioids and help with longer lasting pain control.
https://academic.oup.com/painmedicine/article/13/2/263/1936943
Data and research on Ketamine
National Institute of Mental Health
"Recent data suggests that given IV, may be the most important break through in anti-depressant treatment in decades." Thomas Insel, MD, Director of National Institute of Health.
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/directors/thomas-insel/blog/2014/ketamine.shtml
American Psychiatric Association
Titrated Serial Ketamine Infusions Stop Outpatient Suicidality: Dr. Lori Calabrese
MORE FACTS ON KETAMINE
- KETAMINE IS 70-80% EFFECTIVE WITH PATIENTS WITH THE MOST DIFFICULT CASES OF DEPRESSION
- 6 INFUSIONS PRODUCES ANTIDEPRESSANT EFFECTS THAT CAN LAST SEVERAL WKS TO UP TO SEVERAL MONTHS
- YALE 2000- 1ST STUDY SHOWED 50% DECREASE IN DEPRESSION AFTER A SINGLE INFUSION
- KETAMINE BLOCKS NMDA RECEPTORS (THE MOST EXCITATORY NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN THE BRAIN) ALLOWING FOR AN INCREASE IN GLUTAMATE ACTIVITY IN THE BRAIN
- KETAMINE REVERSES LOSS OF NEURONAL CONNECTIONS AND REVERSES BRAIN ATROPHY
2019: Professor wins prestigious prize for groundbreaking discovery
in use of ketamine:
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1167193.shtml
IS KETAMINE SAFE?
https://www.askp.org/2018/10/28/are-ketamine-infusions-addictive/