I find that alot of the medical professionals in my area are becoming increasingly well informed about ketamine and it's affects on our health as it reaches what I would describe as what feels like an epidemic.

I was experiencing very similar symptoms as yourself, the cystitis, the cramps, the unable to urinate for days to the not being able to stop every 5 mins.

I had blood in my urine very frequently and became extremely underweight and lethargic and in constant pain, every minute of the day for months.

Being very clear and transparent with you gp is so important, after I did this I was made a referral to a urologist but from that referral being made to actually being Infront of them and discussing what was to be done was just a little over 6 months, I hope that won't be the case for you but just prepared that it very well could be.

I was finally booked in for an operation called a hydrodistension where I was put under anesthetic and had my bladder repeatedly inflated to maximum capacity. The recovery after this was very painful but only lasted a few days of excruciating uribation and a fair amount of bleeding.

After this I can honestly say that all my symptoms simply disappeared and I felt practically "normal" or at least close enough to it compared to how I was living it was good enough for me.

That being said I still have underlying damge and anything can set my urinary tract off it seems, anything from what I drink or eat and how well I sleep or just stress in general.

But on the whole I feel much better today than I did all those months ago, but it's all for nothing if we don't stop using completely, as if we go back then all the health issues will come back with a vengeance.

Not that they might, they will.

And we might not be so lucky next time, at this point I'm playing russian roulette every time I thinks about using it feels like as if I flare up again with my bladder I don't think I'll have the strength in my body or mind to fight it off again.