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Since Ketamine is severely addictive, I would not recommend this.

• bookofjoe 5y ago
  Retired anesthesiologist here, many years using daily IV ketamine in burn wards for dressing changes, oftimes same individual for weeks (this treatment was used in burn wards when I first got there in the 1970s, BTW). As a rule, daily dose requirement increased about 10-25% each week. I don't think anyone back then noticed any effect of ketamine on mood; it was all about relieving the excruciating pain of 3rd degree burns. I can't speak to the addiction potential.
  • 0x008 5y ago
    Of course, I am talking about "recreational" Ketamine usage (not controlled by a physician or similar), but: I have lost two friends to it and another one went to the hospital multiple times. Considering that I am just one data point, I find that these are a lot of connections to people who had fatal events due to ketamine usage. This is not including the people I know who had a mild and severe addiction. Since you mention daily dose requirements, I would add that that is really the health risk here, since you would need double or triple the dosage (to get the psychoactive effects) after just a couple weeks of daily usage and it keeps increasing. This really puts a strain on your body until it will just fail to work anymore. Also if you use it in sub-anasthetic doses it can really fuck your head after a while and lead to dissociative episodes or even disorders as well as anxiety and paranoia and a loss of the `sense of reality` (like most other drugs do). Additionally it should be mentioned that - the neurotoxicity of Ketamine is not really explored - most street `Ketamine` is not that at all but often research chemicals which are even less explored health and addiction wise