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I'll add my anecdote to the pile. I don't use ketamine a lot (it is not very good for headaches, pretty good for dulling a mosquito bite until it fades away nat
by loves_mangoes 5y ago
I'll add my anecdote to the pile. I don't use ketamine a lot (it is not very good for headaches, pretty good for dulling a mosquito bite until it fades away naturally, excellent for dancing).
I've taken about 1000mg over the course of several months, at irregular intervals.
While it is somewhat higher than Scott's 280mg/month, it's not an order of magnitude higher. Certainly nowhere near 90,000mg/month.
I can report one event of pain while peeing, a few days ago. So it looks like my body is not built to handle even moderate levels of ketamine use, and I'd have to stay closer to 100mg/month or lower to be on the safe side.
That said, let me reiterate, this is anecdote. I only think it's interesting because there is no other reasonable explanation for my recent urinary pain, and I didn't expect such low doses of Ketamine to have noticeable effects.
- Alex3917 5y agoYeah I think I gave myself some minor bladder damage just by drinking iced mint tea (since it's such a strong diuretic), so I can't imagine I'd react well to ketamine even in small doses.
- kaybe 5y agoWow, how much did you drink?
- Alex3917 5y agoOnly one glass a day, so maybe 20oz. I was working out of a coffee shop, and would have an iced coffee or a latte in the morning but then wanted something non caffeinated in the early afternoon. I think the combination of the large coffee and the large iced tea was just too much diuretic for whatever reason. Fortunately the problem seems to have resolved itself after a couple years.
- cwkoss 5y ago> pretty good for dulling a mosquito bite until it fades away naturally Applied topically? Or in the sense that the anesthetic disassociative effects dull most sensations?
- loves_mangoes 5y agoI did try rubbing some crushed powder to the bite, but could not notice any effect before I got impatient. Ketamine on my tongue has an instant numbing effect, but to my knowledge nothing transdermaly. I took it insufflated, the short duration of action and general anesthesia makes it decently practical. (Of course it sounds pretty silly to recommend Ketamine for a small everyday itch. But that's what I had on hand, and I happen to dislike mosquitos with a very particular intensity =] )
- cwkoss 5y agoHaha, I love that you tried that. Thanks for sharing and expanding the frontiers of pharmacology. New off-label uses for drugs are popping up every day! :D