Patients Find New Hope for Life-Changing Relief Through Medically-Supervised Ketamine Therapy
Ketamine is an anesthetic that has been used on both humans and animals for over 50 years. In the last decade, a great deal of clinical research has been conducted by leading institutions all over the world proving intravenous ketamine’s efficacy and safety in the treatment of major depression, bipolar depression, PTSD, OCD, eating disorders, severe anxiety, as well as certain pain disorders. These studies regularly report a 70% success rate or higher.
Ketamine works differently than any other traditional medication.
Imaging studies have suggested that ketamine may work by literally repairing the neural pathways of the brain. This allows for electrical and neurotransmitters to flow more smoothly in the brain circuits, leading to an increase in the brain’s functional capacity and a decrease in symptoms. This helps explain why patients who undergo ketamine infusion therapy experience positive effects that last for weeks and months, long after ketamine has been flushed from their systems.
Research studies have shown that a longer-length infusion may be necessary and more effective in treating patients with chronic pain disorders. Although patients can experience profound relief with as little as one infusion, most patients will notice longer-lasting results after the full course of treatment is completed. Maintenance (booster) infusions may be scheduled on an as-needed basis to maintain desired relief from symptoms.
Mood Stabilization
Improvement may be seen within hours as ketamine helps you take control of your thoughts.
Pain Relief
Ketamine blocks pain receptors, helping overloaded and damaged pain centers reboot and dramatically reduce pain.
Returned Hope
We are here to offer you hope, help, and an alternative to traditional prescription medications.
We invite you to explore our treatments for your concerns—anytime, anywhere—with our online treatment planner tool. It’s absolutely free, and it can help you pinpoint issues and then have the information and tools you need to make informed decisions on how to deal with them.
Dr. Ayesha McCoy established NueMind as a wellness center in Kingwood to provide ketamine therapy for the treatment of resistant disorders including depression, anxiety, PTSD, and OCD. NueMind has developed a therapy process that ensures our patients are positioned to achieve the highest level of success.
Our services also include wellness treatment, intimate health, aesthetic enhancement, hormone therapy, medical marijuana, and IV therapy. NueMind Ketamine & IV Wellness will help monitor all aspects of your health as you need, and will continue support after your treatments are complete. We’re here for you, and here with you.
Current research shows that ketamine infusion can help with many issues, especially when traditional methods don’t provide relief.
Typically, it will take just 1 or 2 infusions to know if ketamine will help you. If you are having positive results, it is recommended to have 6 total infusions within the first 2 weeks. After that, maintenance intramuscular injections and/or infusions may be scheduled to maintain response, usually 3 to 5 weeks after completing the initial series of 6. The total length of treatment is highly dependent on each individual. A series of 6 infusions may last anywhere from weeks to months, and often a single booster infusion when effects are wearing off can restore response. There is research to suggest that, in order for the effects of ketamine infusion to be sustained, a maintenance regimen is needed.
Research studies have shown that a longer-length infusion may be necessary and more effective for treating patients with chronic pain disorders. It is recommended that you receive five 4-hour-long infusions, typically done within 5 days. Although patients can experience profound relief with as little as one infusion, most patients will notice longer-lasting results after the full course of treatment is completed. Maintenance (booster) infusions may be scheduled on an as-needed basis to maintain desired relief from symptoms.
Ketamine got its start in Belgium in the 1960s as an anesthesia medicine for animals. The FDA approved it as an anesthetic for people in 1970. It was used to treat injured soldiers on the battlefields in the Vietnam War. Eventually, emergency responders realized they may choose ketamine treatment for agitated patients who, for example, they have rescued from a suicide attempt. That’s how Ken Stewart, MD, emergency physician and founder of Insight Ketamine in Santa Fe, NM, says doctors began to realize that the drug had powerful effects against depression and suicidal thoughts.
In the last decade, a great deal of clinical research has been conducted by leading institutions all over the world, proving intravenous ketamine’s efficacy and safety in the treatment of major depression, bipolar depression, PTSD, and severe anxiety, as well as certain pain disorders. These studies regularly report a 70% success rate or higher.
It has not yet been FDA-approved for the treatment of psychiatric disorders and chronic pain, making it an off-label treatment option. Ketamine has a good safety profile and has been used widely as an anesthetic in emergency medicine, in veterinary medicine, and in operating rooms and wound clinics around the world on a daily basis. It is often used for the most fragile patients, including children and the elderly, because of its safe profile. Since 2000, ketamine has been found to be a valuable and highly effective treatment for depression, anxiety, various mood disorders, and certain pain disorders. It works at the receptor level to stimulate and preserve neurons, which is key to reducing symptoms associated with mood disorders, PTSD, and chronic pain.
For some patients, ketamine infusions in Kingwood is quite simply life-changing and unlike any other treatment currently available given its rapid, robust effects and lack of side effects between treatments.
Like with any drug, abusing it can cause serious issues. Ketamine creates what doctors call a “dissociative experience” and what most anyone else would call a “trip.” That’s why some people started to abuse it. Partiers inject it, put it in drinks, snort it, or add it to joints or cigarettes.
But the drug’s potential as a treatment for chronic pain, depression, and an antidote to suicidal thoughts has drawn researchers’ attention. They’ve studied and administered it in controlled, clinical settings to help with treatment-resistant conditions. What these mass media outlets neglect is the fact that doctors have developed a protocol for medically supervised use that may help people who don’t get relief from other medications.
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