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drsmerfmaster

1y ago

Ketamine Use: Experiences and Advice?

Anyone else try ketamine

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Lilisu

1y ago

I am given an injection of ketamine and then left alone in a dark room to deal with the side effects. Personally, i would like to talk to someone while in this state. I know we're not supposed to care about the disassociative side effects and just let them pass, but I've seen God, I've seen my being, I've been dissolved into fire and dispersed into the room and came to on the ground lightly chewing on my own arm. I'm told I'm a bit of an edge case, though, and it usually goes bad when my headphones fall off and i can't hear music anymore, but it's a very.. i dunno, perception altering experience sometimes and i feel talking through it would be better, though the only places I've seen that it's been out of my ability to pay for.
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Akujenias

1y ago

if you regularly attend therapy or would consider seeking a therapist just for the occasion, would your current treatment provider be open to this? Maybe if it isn't their staff, their liability is different in not sure it gets complicated quickly with anything medical. But it's worth asking, I've experienced some dissociated states myself and have to admit conversation in a therapeutic setting was very beneficial to my experience I feel.
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Akujenias

1y ago

There's been studies involving dextromethorphan due to it's similar effects on the sigma receptor. Though ketamine treatment is not as wildly available and typically IV delivered, DXM is an option that's being looked at as having high potential for patients due to it being available to be taken orally. I think it's fascinating how our biology interacts so intricately with different things like this and how similar effects occur with widely different substances.
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Lilisu

1y ago

Yeah, i get injections every two weeks. What do you want to know?
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Loopsy59

11mo ago

is it helpful for anxiety?
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drsmerfmaster

1y ago

just curious to see if anyone else has found it helpful like I do

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