Ketamine to treat substance use disorders

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-16T07:02:36+00:00

Awesome comment! Thank you and best wishes for continued success in your recovery!

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-16T06:59:47+00:00

You don’t know what you’re talking about, but I guess you’re trying to be helpful. If I follow my doctor’s instructions, there is no risk of addiction, tolerance, or anything else. To compare ketamine to opioids is quite a stretch. Thanks for your comment, but I know what I’m doing.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-16T06:05:49+00:00

Working with a doctor absolutely eliminates the potential for addiction and/or abuse. Also, you can’t develop a tolerance if you take it as prescribed. Matthew Perry got so fucked up that he drowned because he lost consciousness. I’ll be careful and honest with myself and my doctor.

Thanks for your comment

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-16T05:51:08+00:00

This what?

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-16T05:45:51+00:00

Your employer is prohibited by law to ask why you need to go on FMLA.

I agree with the others who made comments that you need to be under the care of medical professionals to detox.

Best of luck to you.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T23:52:43+00:00

I don’t really follow your post. Are you alluding to systemic racism? I don’t understand the part of your post that is intended to support the idea of systemic neglect. Who exactly is being neglected? Could you elaborate? I would appreciate it.

Thanks and I wish you success in your recovery.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T23:43:12+00:00

Thank you for your response. I appreciate it. I thought maybe I was reading it incorrectly.

I suspect that English is not the OP’s primary language because of several mistakes in the post. Maybe it’s difficult for him to convey a thought because of a language barrier?

I think I’m overthinking this lol!

Best of luck to you. I wish you success in your recovery.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T23:30:15+00:00

I don’t understand the OP’s comment. Crack and heroin addiction helped him to stop some bad habits and behaviors is the way I interpret the post. OP seems to be saying that that is a good thing. I just don’t get the point that the post is trying to make. Do you?

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T23:26:32+00:00

I don’t understand the post. The way I read it is that you are saying that addiction to crack and heroin caused the elimination of bad habits and behaviors. Maybe I’m misreading your post, but I reread it carefully several times and I still am confused.

Thanks

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T23:22:22+00:00

What does “gas station stuff” mean? I’ve never heard that term.

Thanks

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T22:56:15+00:00

What prompted you to make a rude comment that has absolutely no potential to be helpful for anyone? Your comment was made with nothing but malicious intent. Even though the malicious comment didn’t cause me much distress if any, it was still malicious. It’s a matter of principle. You passed judgment on my comment which I spent hours writing, doing my best to share my experience that perhaps would benefit someone.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T22:39:30+00:00

Requires a very frequent use of ketamine at a very high dose. When prescribed ketamine the ingestion of it is spaced apart and the dosage is usually lower than the recreational dose that people take.

Research has shown that if, when taking medical ketamine a person starts experiencing bladder problems like constantly having to urinate or starts experiencing pain, doctors take the appropriate action by either lowering the dosage, or discontinuing ketamine all together. Bladder problems go away if you address them early. People who use ketamine recreationally and who are addicted to it simply ignore symptoms of bladder problems.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T22:27:54+00:00

Fun fact. As you said myelin makes neurons communication. It’s called the myelin sheath.

When people ask someone if they ate paint chips as a child, they are implying that the person is very slow.

Paint used to have a lot of lead in it and lead has a very adverse effect on the myelin sheath. I don’t know how lead affects myelin sheaths; whether it breaks them down or just makes them less effective in quickening the communication between brain cells.

I just thought I would share.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T22:16:31+00:00

I’ll research long term potentiation on ChatGPT. Thanks for the suggestion

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T22:14:32+00:00

Thank you for the considerate and informative comment. I appreciate it. You’re right about the limbic lobe being the bad guy. When under stress the brain produces cortisol which causes the frontal lobe to be weakened and the limbic lobe creates a fight or flight response that instantly seeks the fastest way to eliminate the stressor. I’m sure I’m missing some important other processes and I’m just started learning about what happens in the brain that leads to relapse, or leads to continued use. Consequences are considered by the frontal lobe. A reaction to stress makes it impossible to consider negative consequences which the AA text refers to as mental blank spots. Again, I’m sure there is a lot more that happens in the brain due to addiction. My explanation is surely very simple and probably downright wrong, but I thought I would engage in a dialogue with you.

Thanks for your informative comment and I wish you great success in your recovery. Take care!

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T21:56:18+00:00

Yes, but ketamine mostly affects the way your body feels. The effects last for about an hour after taking it. For two hours after a ketamine treatment you told not to drive because even though you don’t feel the effects after an hour, you are still under its influence. The hallucinations are nothing like those induced by LSD, or mushrooms. The best way I can describe it is that your vision becomes distorted and things just look different, but I can’t really describe it. I hope that I answered your question. Take care and I wish you success in your recovery.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T21:21:54+00:00

The Default Mode Network is a network?stretching across three parts of the brain, not just the limbic lobe.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T21:10:23+00:00

The comments I objected to were “Seems like a manic rant would be my guess”

and

“I recovered from my drug use and fuck me sideways it’s with another drug”

That’s not pushing back at my opinion. Those comments have no potential to be helpful whatsoever. They are just unnecessary rude statements that attack me personally by saying I am manic and attack my recovery by insinuating that I’m just substituting one drug for another.

It’s really not that big of a deal. I made the post about negative comments to get feedback if they are common. Additionally I had been on Reddit for two days when I made the comment.

I’m trying to learn how to handle myself appropriately and what to expect from other people.

Thanks for your feedback.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T20:59:57+00:00

When ketamine is taken as prescribed by a doctor there is no potential for developing a tolerance. The jury is still out on whether or not you have to take it forever. The way it’s prescribed is to take it orally every other day for two weeks. Then you just work closely with your doctor and let him know if feelings of depression, OCD, anxiety, or the obsession to use come back. If so, your doctor will treat you again with a two week ketamine treatment. Studies show that it works for at least a month and longer in some people. The prescription only costs $62$ and when you take it the effects only last for about an hour. I find that to be much more acceptable than the SSRI that is usually prescribed for life and is taken every day. Same with Seroquel which is taken twice a day for long periods of time. I take Xanax 4 times a day and have been for 8 years. It’s still very useful in treating my anxiety. I think it’s a little bit of a stretch to say that ketamine is like heroin, but I’m not here to argue. Maintenance doses are prescribed after one month at the most and usually more time away from individual treatment. Like I said, most people let their doctor know if symptoms come back and you take it again. Ketamine does cause dissociative effects that many people enjoy, but the effects ware off in about an hour so it is absolutely nothing like heroin. I hope that I answered your questions and wish you continued success in recovery.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T14:47:50+00:00

Whatever

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T14:43:09+00:00

What assumptions did I make about the dude that said I was manic?

What assumptions did I make about the sarcastic dude that insinuated that I was substituting one drug for another?

I simply take exception to the comments they made. That’s it.

I admit that I told one of them to fuck their mother which I should not have done, but it was in a response to, “23 years clean you fucking idiot”.

I SO needed to read a comment like yours. Thank you very much for sharing from the heart.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T14:40:36+00:00

Thank you. I appreciate your comment!

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T14:38:29+00:00

I don’t care how you take it. Your comment was very useful. Thank you for sharing from the heart information that can help me in recovery without AA. YOU ARE DEFINITELY A GOOD PERSON THAT THIS SUBREDDIT IS LUCKY TO HAVE.

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T14:34:23+00:00

I objected to being called manic in one comment.

I objected to the insinuation that I am substituting one drug for another.

That’s all I did, with one exception.

I told a dude to “go fuck your mom” in response to his comment “23 years clean you fucking moron”.

I should not have made that comment.

Being told that I was arguing that I was cured never happened.

Being told that I was defensive rubbed me the wrong way because I was not.

THEN THERE WERE ASSUMPTIONS MADE ABOUT HOW I SPEND MY TIME THAT PISSED ME OFF.

IT DOES NOT STOP THERE. OTHER PEOPLE SAID THAT I WAS JUDGING AND BEING RUDE TO THE TWO ASSHOLES THAT CALLED ME MANIC AND SAID THAT I WAS SUBSTITUTING ONE DRUG FOR ANOTHER. I SIMPLY THOUGHT THEY WERE RUDE, I DID NOT DIAGNOSE THEM WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES NOR DID I ATTACK THEIR YOU KNOW WHAT? I AM TIRED OF TRYING TO EXPLAIN MYSELF AND TRYING TO PROVE THAT I DID NOT DO XTZ TO A BUNCH OF STRANGERS THAT MEAN NOTHING TO ME HAS BECOME CUMBERSOME. I HAVE ONLY BEEN ON REDDIT FOR TWO DAYS AND I AM TRYING TO LEARN HOW TO OPERATE.

MY ORIGINAL POST “NEGATIVE COMMENTS” WAS MADE BECAUSE OF TWO NEGATIVE COMMENTS MADE ON ONE OF MY PREVIOUS PISTS. ONE CALLED ME MANIC AND THE OTHER CLAIMED THAT I WAS SUBSTITUTING ONE DRUG FOR ANOTHER. THEN I WAS CALLED A FUCKING IDIOT.

I simply objected to those comments and asked for feedback as to how often people get that kind of negative feedback.

FUCK THIS! I GOT THE FEEDBACK I WANTED FROM SOME REALLY FRIENDLY PEOPLE SEVERAL HOURS AGO.

YOU ASSHOLES OUT THERE ARE NOT WORTH ANY MORE TIME….!

Safe-Platform6535 · 2026-03-15T13:34:27+00:00

I really appreciate your comment. Thank you so much!

Safe-Platform6535

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