Alternative Therapy

[Peace22]

Hi, I have tried everything to manage my anxiety (therapy, meds, yoga etc) and nothing works. The pattern of negative thoughts and always being worried of worst case scenarios followed by the racing thoughts to solve/talk myself off the ledge is so tiring. From outside looking in, I have a great life but I cannot enjoy it with this constant anxiety. I have been reading about ketamine therapy and was thinking of trying. Has anyone had experience with this?

[dmholland630]

I haven’t tried it…thought about it until I found out how expensive it is! Have you tried playing with play doh? One of my go to coping skills and it works so well.

[Peace22 in reply to dmholland630]

I haven’t - will try. Thanks!

[Blueruth]

what about microdosing thc? I have no experience but here is something adai.uw.edu/pubs/pdf/2017mj...

[Pennypeaches]

yes i have done the ketamine treatments. I’ve had anxiety 31 yrs and it causes me to have a chronic stomach ache. Have tried everything under the sun pretty much been searching for answers for years. Then when always in so much pain it’s hard to eat,sleep, work, and try to have a somewhat normal life. The only thing that has helped me to some degree is the treatments. The low dose did not work for me, but eventually I was getting some pain relief from the high doses. I know of someone who goes every 3 months for a treatment and it lasts them till the next session. They have stomach pain from anxiety also. My treatment doesn’t last nearly that long but it is the only thing that has given me any kind of relief from pain for a short time period. I don’t do them all the time. I go through spurts of doing the infusions.

[designguy]

I did four infusions and stopped because it did not help me and it is very expensive, not covered by insurance and it is physically exhausting. My main issue has been anxiety and if I had not done a lot of work about it, it would have made it much worse. You also can not drive afterward so my wife had to take me there and pick me up. I honestly don't get what the big deal about ketamine is. You can have a spiritual experience with it but I didn't need ketamine in order to do that. The other possible reason i didn't have a good experience with it is that I could have had too high of a dosage of it, I also don't suffer from major depression which is supposedly what it was originally recommended for. In hindsight i might have been better off with TMS therapy but haven't tried it.