What Is Ketamine Treatment?
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We Offer Ketamine Treatment for The Following Conditions
The Benefits of Ketamine
General improvement of mood
Lessening of suicide ideation
Decreased anxiety
Diminished PTSD symptoms
Increased calmness
Ability to “let go” of trauma
Anti-depressant effects
Increased stress resilience
Reduced OCD
Sense of balance
Increased quality of life
Positive behavioral changes
Lessening of suicide ideation
Our Approach
Ketamine can be administered in a number of ways including intravenous infusion (IV), intramuscular injection (IM), intranasally, orally, and sublingually (as a dissolving troche or lozenge). Each route varies in the onset of action (time), bioavailability (absorption), and clearing time and also varies for each person. Although a response is generally predictable based on past administration, it is possible that a patient may experience different physiological, psychological, and emotional effects with the same dose.
We firmly believe that multiple ketamine sessions are needed in order to facilitate the cumulative anti-depressant or other mood-altering effects of the medication. Typically, a patient will go through 1-2 sublingual treatments prior to an intramuscular treatment. This is necessary to assess how the patient reacts to the medicine, to allow the new neural pathways to form, and to reorganize synaptic connections.
Sublingual
The purpose of the sublingual ketamine lozenge sessions is twofold. First, it allows our staff to assess your response to the medication and gives us a baseline to work with. For some individuals, only sublingual administration will be utilized. Second, it generates a cumulative anti-depressant or other (anxiety, pain, PTSD, etc.) benefit that often occurs over time with repeated sessions.
IM (intramuscular)
After a patient has experienced 2-4 sublingual ketamine treatments, he/she may benefit from one or more intramuscular treatments. The purpose of the IM ketamine treatment is to create a non-ordinary or altered state of consciousness in order to facilitate a profound transpersonal (transcendental, mystical, or spiritual) peak experience.
IV (intravenous)
Much research has done with the IV administration of ketamine, and although it also yields the same cumulative effect, it may not produce a profound experience which can play a vital role in the healing process. However, it has been found that patients who suffer from chronic pain can benefit immensely from IV ketamine treatments.
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How Does Ketamine Treatment Help With Mood Disorders?
What distinguishes ketamine in comparison to various other antidepressants is how it functions to have an effect on the human brain. Antidepressants generally concentrate on boosting chemicals in the brain like serotonin as well as dopamine.
Using ketamine for clinical depression, nevertheless, can in fact assist in repairing neuron synapses that commonly do not operate correctly in the brains of depressed individuals. Ketamine prompts a reaction in the brain, and it’s the adjustment to that provocation–the regrowth of synaptic networks–that is accountable for the quick progress in the mood it produces.
How Does Ketamine Treatment Help With Chronic Pain?
Ketamine therapy is a practical treatment alternative for dealing with chronic pain symptoms, and may be particularly efficient for individuals who have come to be resistant to narcotics and various other pain-relieving treatment methods.
Ketamine treatment delivers encouraging results for pain patients and may be a worthwhile alternative to most conventional treatments for CRPS. Ketamine functions by means of resetting the central nervous system’s sensitization to pain, thereby providing relief.
Unlike opiates that make patients more hypersensitive to pain in time, ketamine serves to help quiet the brain during the course of treatment and brings back regular handling of pain in the brain to supply long-lasting pain reduction.
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The Process
Book a Consultation
To find out if ketamine therapy is an appropriate treatment option for you, we invite you to book a consultation. Within 24 hours of the assessment, you will be contacted by a wellness professional to help you schedule and prepare for your initial ketamine evaluation with our psychiatrist.
Complete the Forms
Prior to your first visit you must fill out the required forms. A link will be emailed to you after you book your appointment of you can fill them out here.
Psychiatric Evaluation
Your first appointment will be with our psychiatrist, Dr. Andrew Ferber. During the 30 minute visit you will discuss your mental and physical health, both past and current as well as the reasons you are seeking ketamine treatments. If approved you will meet with one of our wellness professionals to go over your ketamine wellness plan. This is determined by a number of factors including current mood, mental health history, tolerance to medications and psychedelics, your assessment scores, and overall health. Your wellness journey is unique to you and, because of that, we custom tailor your ketamine treatment and any supplemental services to meet your exact needs. This can include psychotherapy sessions, integration sessions or groups, dietary planning assistance, yoga classes, meditation groups, healing circles, workout activities, and more.
Before Your First Treatment
Please carefully read the pre-treatment instructions concerning guidelines for your experience to be successful.
Setting Your Intentions
In order to facilitate a positive experience, both set and setting have to be taken into consideration. We have taken great care to ensure that the setting is relaxed and comfortable and we offer music, soft lighting, blankets, sleep masks, etc. in order for you to allow yourself to let go. But how do you prepare your mindset for an experience? The best way to do this is through setting intentions. An intention is a guiding principle for how you want to live and a way to bring heart and mind into alignment.
Your First Treatment
It is not uncommon to feel a little nervous or apprehensive prior to a session, especially the first one. You will work with our staff to find an appropriate dose during your treatment. Generally you will titrate up to larger doses in subsequent sessions which can lead to more profound experiences. No two experiences are the same and no one can tell you what you may experience. Learn about “Trust – Let Go – Be Open”.
Integrating Your Experience
Ketamine can do a lot of amazing things, but it cannot change your diet, habits, environment, or who you associate with. All of these things have to come from the individual and it takes courage and bravery to facilitate these changes. In the days and weeks that follow an experience, it may become easier to allow these changes to become a part of your usual lifestyle. However, it is important that if these changes are resisted the will to make these changes may fade. That is why it is imperative to reflect, integrate, and make changes directly following a session.
FAQs
Do you suffer from mood disorders such a depression, anxiety, treatment resistant depression, suicide ideation OCD, bipolar disorder, PTSD, trauma, or BPD? Addiction issues? Eating disorders? Chronic pain such as fibromyalgia, CRPS, neuropathy, arthritis, RLS, or migraines? Are you looking for a renewed sense of self or furthering your spiritual journey ? Ketamine Therapy at MY self Wellness may be for you.
Packages start at $699 for a single. We recommend a minimum of 6 treatments to get profound and lasting results.