Ketamine blocks bursting in the lateral habenula to rapidly relieve depression

Post by jessaustin » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 2:23 AM UTC

nefitty wrote: post #54

Praitor wrote: post #50

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That's on the low end. I've looked into it and seen prices on the order of $1000-1500 per treatment. If you filter those out, many metro areas simply have no provider that charges what would seem to be a justifiable price. Abusive pricing is a big problem for this product it seems. Several advocacy sites that I saw that maintain provider lists make note of this.

Is it abusive pricing or are they covering for potential legal issues, etc? It would be great to hear from a clinician with first-hand experience.

Post by atomical » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 2:29 AM UTC

starpilot wrote: post #5

I have been looking into Ketamine as there is a clinic which administers Ketamine therapy in my area. The disappointing thing is that it looks like the effects are short lived, and one may need "booster" treatments every 4 weeks, at $400 a shot, for years and possibly forever. I hope with this understanding, we come up with something more permanent.

Post by atomical » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 2:31 AM UTC

oceanghost wrote: post #8

This really, really works. I experimented for years with it after reading about trials. I'd be happy to answer questions.

Post by fragmede » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 2:43 AM UTC

nylonstrung wrote: post #22

newnewpdro wrote: post #12

Isn't regular Ketamine use especially bad for the bladder? I recall reading multiple anecdotes from the Erowid ketamine vaults where people lost their bladders due to recreational Ketamine use.

It is in the way that alcohol use is bad for one's liver- the cases where it results in bladder issues are those of abuse where doses massively larger than the therapeutic psychiatric dose are used on an ongoing basis. "A young adult male taking 1 g of ketamine could expect 85% of the drug to be excreted in the urine within 24 hours, and taking into account the average voiding rate of 6 × 300 mL per day, a urine conc…

Post by sterlind » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 2:59 AM UTC

benevol wrote: post #57

cpncrunch wrote: post #36

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$400/month seems a very cheap price for getting your life back.

I agree that $10/session does sound better. That's what you pay (at most) for LSD, the traditional longer-term anti-depressive and anti-anxiety effect being there as well (3-6 months). But: You have to buy a test kit (an additional $25/kit) and be extremely well informed about what do to and what not to do. And plan everything in detail and very carefully. Don't expect miracles if you're not serious about it.